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

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

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 :

# 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 :

# 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.

Last update: 2022-10-01