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Compiling Proton and its examples on the Raspberry Pi with OpenGL 2

Test with the latest Raspberry Pi OS and RetroPi as of June 9th, 2023.

These should run both in the desktop GUI, or directly from bash. (Fullscreen) I guess it's all identical to running on Ubuntu Linux/etc these days, no special stuff is needed.

First, install some tools/libs you'll need:

sudo apt-get install cmake
sudo apt-get install libsdl2-2.0-0 libsdl2-dev

Don't forget git!

sudo apt-get install git

Next, install Proton.

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/SethRobinson/proton.git

Now let's build Proton's RTPack utility, will come in handle later to build and optimize resources.

cd ~/proton/RTPack/linux
sh linux_compile.sh

Now let's compile and run RTBareBones:

cd ~/proton/RTBareBones/linux
sh linux_compile.sh
cd ../bin
./RTBareBones

If that worked, enjoy the spinning triangle and text stretching!

Now let's do RTSimpleApp, same thing but it needs SDL2_mixer for its audio, so let's get that installed:

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-mixer-dev

Great. Now we compile and run like before, but we're adding a step - compiling media with the RTPack utility.

cd ~/RTSimpleApp/linux
sh linux_compile.sh
cd ../media
sh update_media.sh
cd ../bin
./RTSimpleApp

If that worked, enjoy the app. If it didn't… off to the forums and yell at Seth!

State of Proton on the Pi