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zach-morris / kodi_libretro_buildbot_game_addons

Create Kodi Game Addons from the Libretro Buildbot Binary Files
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Nightly Builds aren't being built for ARMHF #14

Closed CFTBL closed 1 year ago

CFTBL commented 1 year ago

I'd open this issue for the libretro buildbot people, but I'm not exactly sure how to do that. The issue is this: The "nightly" armhf cores on buildbot.libretro.com (https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/linux/armhf/latest/) aren't getting built. That means if you're on a Raspberry Pi 4 and you install cores from kodi_libretro_buildbot_game_addons as as suggested in this repo's readme, the "nightly" cores you get are about 2.5 years old. For now, as a workaround on RPi 4, it seems best to get updated cores via RetroArch's online updater and copy each .so file to the appropriate add-on folder in Kodi.

zach-morris commented 1 year ago

Interesting. Yes I see that the buildbot itself has very old cores in it. Not much I can do on my end if they aren't being built.

But if retroarch is getting updated cores, it must be getting them from somewhere. What does retroarch settings say for Config>Network>Updater>Buildbot Cores URL on an RPi4?

CFTBL commented 1 year ago

On RPi4, RetroArch is updating cores via https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/linux/armv7-neon-hf/latest/ (not https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/linux/armhf/latest/). Uh oh, I see now that the the armv7-neon-hf cores are just as old as the armhf ones. I had thought they were newer because I was looking at timestamps on my SD card (shows when they were downloaded) instead of looking at the timestamps on the server (shows when they were built). Guess you can close the issue. Maybe the only way to get newer Libretro cores for RPi 4, is to build them from source.

CFTBL commented 1 year ago

I just opened the following issue on RetroArch's github page...

"Nightly" Libretro Buildbot cores for armhf and armv7-neon-hf are 2.5 years old

It appears that the "nightly" builds at https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/linux/armv7-neon-hf/latest/ and https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/linux/armhf/latest/ aren't getting built (at least according to their timestamps). If those timestamps are accurate, it means anytime you use RetroArch's online updater to update cores on a Raspberry Pi 4, you're getting cores that are 2.5 years old.

zach-morris commented 1 year ago

Bummer. We'll i'll follow the issue and see where it leads

03stevensmi commented 5 months ago

I found out where the armhf builds are: https://github.com/christianhaitian/retroarch-cores

It's officially mentioned here and why... https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/15154 FYI... There SAFE & FINE!

Could you please re-direct your build repo to this link please?

zach-morris commented 5 months ago

The official kodi repo may be better for this at this point: https://mirrors.kodi.tv/addons/omega/ I see they're building armv7 and aarch64