Building RetroArch: Difference between revisions

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%systemdrive%\msys32\autorebase.bat

Once the window closes, open the MSYS2 Shell again and type pacman --noconfirm -Su then repeat the previous operation to finish the process.

Once the window closes, open the MSYS2 Shell again and type <code>pacman --noconfirm -Su</code> then repeat the previous operation to finish the process.

Note: If you get fork errors, the second step may have failed. You should go to your msys2 install directory and run autorebase.bat manually. If that didn't solve the problem consider reinstalling msys2.

Note: If you get fork errors, the second step may have failed. You should go to your msys2 install directory and run <code>autorebase.bat</code> manually. If that didn't solve the problem consider reinstalling msys2.

===Installing the build time dependencies===

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You should see a list of files being compiled, ending with <code>LD retroarch</code>. You can then copy the newly compiled <code>retroarch.exe</code> from <code>libretro-super\retroarch</code> to wherever you keep your RetroArch installation.

If ~~needed~~, you can fetch all MSYS2 installed DLLs~~, if you are experiencing a missing DLL error,~~ by executing this line:

If you are experiencing a missing DLL error, you can fetch all MSYS2 installed DLLs by executing this line:

for i in $(seq 3); do for bin in $(ldd *exe *dll | grep -i mingw | cut -d\ -f 3); do cp -vu "$bin" . ; done; done

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   %systemdrive%\msys32\autorebase.bat
-Once the window closes, open the MSYS2 Shell again and type pacman --noconfirm -Su then repeat the previous operation to finish the process.
+Once the window closes, open the MSYS2 Shell again and type <code>pacman --noconfirm -Su</code> then repeat the previous operation to finish the process.
-Note: If you get fork errors, the second step may have failed. You should go to your msys2 install directory and run autorebase.bat manually. If that didn't solve the problem consider reinstalling msys2.
+Note: If you get fork errors, the second step may have failed. You should go to your msys2 install directory and run <code>autorebase.bat</code> manually. If that didn't solve the problem consider reinstalling msys2.
 ===Installing the build time dependencies===
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 You should see a list of files being compiled, ending with <code>LD retroarch</code>. You can then copy the newly compiled <code>retroarch.exe</code> from <code>libretro-super\retroarch</code> to wherever you keep your RetroArch installation.
-If needed, you can fetch all MSYS2 installed DLLs, if you are experiencing a missing DLL error, by executing this line:
+If you are experiencing a missing DLL error, you can fetch all MSYS2 installed DLLs by executing this line:
   for i in $(seq 3); do for bin in $(ldd *exe *dll | grep -i mingw | cut -d\  -f 3); do cp -vu "$bin" . ; done; done