RetroFE development

[KMetalMind]

Thanks to all of you who make the hard work! With my knowledge I can just do some basic tests It still doesn´t work, but I think we are really close. I´ve isolated the line which makes retroFE crash on Windows, and it´s just this one:

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std::string home_load = std::getenv("HOME") + std::string("/.retrofe");
Any ideas?

[Agent47]

The "HOME" environment variable will return a null value on Windows. Concatenating the "HOMEDRIVE" and "HOMEPATH" environment variables will return the home dir.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

I managed to do a compile and run under Windows tonight. I'll update the bit bucket files soon. I haven't been able to include /MT in the scripts yet.

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[Tom Acunzo]

Great find guys! Thanks

[Pieter Hulshoff]

Ok, bit bucket is updated, and I've confirmed that with all the updates (including the instructions) I can now directly compile and run the setup on Windows 7 and Linux. Tom, can you have a look if I didn't destroy anything for MacOS?
If everything works we can get back to adding features and fixing bugs.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

It looks like the crash on exit when a controller is connected is caused by the call to SDL_JoystickClose. It's completely unclear to me why this would be, because the pointer itself is valid, and the joystick is working just fine. I've disabled this part of the code, since it's only called when exiting RetroFE. This does not appear to give any new problems, but let me know if you encounter any. The new code is in bit bucket, and will be included in the next release.

[Tom Acunzo]

I just gave it a whirl on Mac...

I loaded the Sega game. After I quit with esc. The game fires right back up without me selecting it. I quit again. The game starts back up in a loop. It's as though all the key presses from hitting spacebar the 1st time are still firing.

Nothing in the logs.

[Tom Acunzo]

BTW No errors on wired Dual Shock 4 retrofe exit.

Haven't tested bluetooth wireless or Dual Shock 3 yet but I feel it's good.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

I just gave it a whirl on Mac...

I loaded the Sega game. After I quit with esc. The game fires right back up without me selecting it. I quit again. The game starts back up in a loop. It's as though all the key presses from hitting spacebar the 1st time are still firing.

Nothing in the logs.

No such issues for me, but on top of clearing the queue I will add a clear of the key information. That should solve that issue.

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[Floyd]

Where can I download the latest compiled snapshots?

[Pieter Hulshoff]

I can upload a snapshot this weekend if you'd like, but please realise that this is WIP, and not yet fully tested.

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[Floyd]

I can upload a snapshot this weekend if you'd like, but please realise that this is WIP, and not yet fully tested.

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I thought you're throwing snapshots on regular basis. My bad I was wrong. No worries mate, you don't need to go through the hassle of compiling and uploading.

[Pieter Hulshoff]

KMetalMind used to do that. Until yesterday I couldn't even compile a Windows executable. 😀

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[Pieter Hulshoff]

I just gave it a whirl on Mac...

I loaded the Sega game. After I quit with esc. The game fires right back up without me selecting it. I quit again. The game starts back up in a loop. It's as though all the key presses from hitting spacebar the 1st time are still firing.

Nothing in the logs.

Apparently the currentKeyState_ was not reset when resetting the key states. I guess Linux and Windows always have some kind of event happening in the queue, even if it's not a key press, which automatically updated the currentKeyState_. Let me know if this change fixes the issue for you?

[Tom Acunzo]

I get Segmentation fault: 11...

If I advance the Load screen with spacebar or don't let it play to the end or even if I hit escape to quit before the load screen finishes all result in a crash.

added note:
$ retrofe --version
RetroFE version 0.7.20b1