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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)

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