Nintendo GameCube Compilation / Development Guide¶
Environment configuration¶
You need the homebrew Nintendo GameCube SDK libogc and Devkitpro PPC toolchain installed.
RetroArch Compilation¶
Fetching RetroArch¶
Clone RetroArch's repository from GitHub
git clone https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch.git retroarch
cd retroarch
For subsequent builds you only need to pull the changes from the repo
cd retroarch
git pull
To update your local copy from the repository run git pull
Building RetroArch separately¶
First, to compile RetroArch (for GameCube) run:
make -f Makefile.griffin platform=ngc
Note
RetroArch on GameCube is statically linked. With statically linked RetroArch, each executable is a separate libretro core instead of the core being separately loaded from a single executable. A pre-existing libretro library needs to be present in the root directory in order to link RetroArch GameCube. This file needs to be called 'libretro_ngc.a'.
After a few seconds/minutes you should be able to find a retroarch_ngc.elf and retroarch_ngc.dol file under that directory.
Building RetroArch in bulk¶
Instead of building each core one by one, you can build all cores as a batch task. Run from the main 'retroarch' directory:
cd dist-scripts
Note
Make sure that all the libretro cores that you want to compile are inside the 'dist-scripts' directory.
Once inside this directory, run :
./dist-cores.sh ngc
This process will also automate the packaging process for you.
Packaging RetroArch¶
Additional Tips:¶
Core Compilation¶
Fetching Cores¶
The easiest way to fetch all the cores is to use libretro-super. Run
./libretro-fetch.sh
Building Cores¶
The easiest way to build all the cores (for GameCube) is to use libretro-super. Run
./libretro-build-ngc.sh
In case you only want to build one and/or more cores instead of all, you can specify the cores you want to build after the first command in no particular order. E.g.:
./libretro-build-ngc.sh snes9x2010 fceumm
Once finished, you can find the libretro cores inside directory dist/ngc.