Option to install Retropie SDL1.2 and SDL2

[paulwratt]

In Retropie-Setup I could not find the GUI options to install SDL1.2 or SDL2.

Any RPi OS should be able to install the binary packages directly. However to build from source the OS needs to have the following packages installed:

libraspberrypi0
libraspberrypi-bin
libraspberrypi-dev

As far as I know those are only available in the RaspberryPi repo, or without a RPi kernel, in the Raspbian repo. They are usually installed manually when setting up a OS filesystem image for an SD-card. So sometimes libraspberrypi-dev is missing (eg Devuan Jessie).

Any OS should be allowed to install the Retropie versions of SDL1.2 and SDL2 from source.

Any OS on a RPi should should be able to do the same, as long as the correct version of the libraspberrypi-dev package is installed. As long as the OS can use dpkg then dpkg -l |grep raspberrypi-bin will show the version needed.

Anyway, Retropie will go through the complete core (base?) installation before letting you know that libsdl2-dev can be found (see seperate issue with libraspberrypi-dev in the package list). This to me seems completely wrong, because most binaries that it builds need the SDL-dev headers anyway.

NOTE: in this example the OS is Devuan Jessie for RPi2, which had SDL 1.2.15-10 with -dev, and SDL 2.0.2 without -dev, installed before running Retropie-Setup

[joolswills]

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[joolswills]

We don't officially support Devuan either - it was a 3rd party contribution to allow RetroPie-Setup to be run on this OS. If you want a change of behaviour, you will need to submit a PR.