Retropie setup in Debian Stretch (Testing) requires gcc4.9, g++4.9 etc but only has gcc6

vampireJ

I was trying out Debian stretch and decided to try to install retropie if it would work. Unfortunately, the install would not proceed because the retropie setup script requires gcc4.9+ whereas Debian Stretch only has gcc6.

Any chance that the script would be able to work in Debian?

Assault

In your situation, I would try to remove / replace all checkes in the RetroPie-script. I then try to install it.
I think your chances are not to bad to get it running.

But why do you have to use Debian Testin !?

vampireJ

I am trying out testing since stable did not work for me- though I shall take a look into it again.

So in stretch / testing look into
RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/system.sh
for the line containing
__default_gcc_version="4.9"

and change it into
__default_gcc_version="6"

for the install to push through.

Unfortunately it asks for libpng12-dev which Debian Stretch does not have.

vampireJ

So the best desktop distro to run retropie right now for me is 16.10
Ubuntu-gnome 16.10 - hdmi audio works, pretty much retropie works in my limited testing
Ubuntu-gnome 17.04 - should work but some packages that I need (kodi, gnome-session-flashback etc) might not be ready as it is not yet released
Ubuntu 16.04 - experienced some freezes in emulationstation when alt tabbing
Debian gnome 8 Stable - crashes after a few seconds will take a look again
Debian 9 Stretch testing - uses gcc6, no libpng12-dev

BuZz

Debian stretch won't be supported until Raspbian switches over to it. The recommended system for running RetroPie on is Raspbian, and that is the OS that most of the testing for the RPI is done on (and the only OS where prebuilt binaries are available).

Assuming you are referring to the RPI as you don't provide details.

vampireJ

My apologies. I am running it on a laptop and trying which distros would work.

BuZz

@vampireJ For a laptop, Ubuntu is recommended as I use that for development (So it's the most tested). 16.04 or better should be fine.

Note, when posting for advice in the future please read https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first (as agreed when registering). Things like hardware platform are important and in this case it would have saved me time.