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 :

# 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: 2020-07-20