yoshisuga / meteor-libretro

Libretro port of Meteor GBA emulator.

Meteor

Meteor is a Nintendo Gameboy Advance emulator. The CLI and GTK frontends run only on Linux. You can use the libretro implementation if you want to run it on Microsoft Windows or if you want features from the retroarch frontend.

libretro build

The libretro build is the recommended way to use Meteor. retroarch is an emulator frontend and Meteor is a backend implementation.

To build the libretro implementation, you need no dependency. Just go to the libretro folder and type make, this will create a meteor_libretro.so, meteor_libretro.dll or meteor_libretro.dylib.

GTK frontend build

Installation

To build Meteor, you need the following dependencies:

• CMake
• Gtkmm
• sigc++ (installed with gtkmm)
• libao
• SFML
• zlib
• OpenGL

Type the following commands to build Meteor:

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ make install

You may need root privileges for the last command. You can change the installation prefix by typing:

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<prefix> ..

Uninstallation

In the build directory type:

$ xargs rm < install_manifest.txt

You may need root privileges to do this.