OSX PowerPC Compilation / Development Guide¶
This compilation guide will teach you how to build RetroArch for OSX PowerPC.
The following versions of the operating system are supported:
- OSX 10.5 (Leopard)
RetroArch can work on both 32bit and 64bit PowerPC processor-powered Macs.
Environment configuration¶
The following software needs to be installed:
- XCode
- (Optional) NVIDIA Cg Toolkit
RetroArch Compilation¶
Fetching RetroArch¶
Clone RetroArch's repository from GitHub
1 2 | git clone https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch.git retroarch cd retroarch |
Note
Versions of git available for OSX PowerPC might not come with the necessary SSL/TLS support that Github now requires. If you happen to find that you can not clone or pull from Github, perform the following command:
git config --global http.sslVerify false.
For subsequent builds you only need to pull the changes from the repo
1 2 | cd retroarch git pull |
To update your local copy from the repository run git pull
Building RetroArch separately¶
Using the graphical interface¶
Open Xcode. Open the following project file pkg/apple/RetroArch_PPC.xcodeproj in the Xcode IDE and build (⌘-B) and run (⌘-R) it there. Or you can use the command line....
Using the command line¶
To build a debug build :
1 2 3 4 | # Build xcodebuild -target RetroArch -configuration Debug -project pkg/apple/RetroArch_PPC.xcodeproj # Run open ./pkg/apple/build/Debug/RetroArch.app/ |
To build a release build :
1 2 3 4 | # Build xcodebuild -target RetroArch -configuration Release -project pkg/apple/RetroArch_PPC.xcodeproj # Run open ./pkg/apple/build/Release/RetroArch.app/ |
Packaging RetroArch¶
Additional Tips:¶
Core Compilation¶
Fetching Cores¶
The easiest way to fetch all the cores is to use libretro-super. Run
1 | ./libretro-fetch.sh |
Building Cores¶
The easiest way to build all the cores (for OSX PowerPC) is to use libretro-super.
To build all cores for OSX, run
1 | ./libretro-build.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.:
1 | ./libretro-build.sh snes9x2010 fceumm |
Once finished, you can find the libretro cores inside directory dist/osx.