Building Ludo from Source: Official Build Guide for Developers

Ludo is an emulator frontend capable of running retro video games. It does not emulate consoles itself; instead it relies on emulator plugins called libretro cores. Libretro cores are well known emulators (such as Snes9x, Genesis Plus GX or PCSX) with their user interface stripped away, containing only console-specific logic.

Building Ludo from source is intended for developers and contributors.

Prerequisites

• GLFW 3.3
• OpenGL >= 2.1
• OpenAL

Ubuntu and Debian

sudo apt install git go libopenal-dev xorg-dev
git clone --recursive https://github.com/libretro/ludo.git
cd ludo
go build
./ludo

Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora

sudo yum install golang libopenal-soft-devel libX11-devel
git clone --recursive https://github.com/libretro/ludo.git
cd ludo
go build
./ludo

Windows

Setup Git Bash, then setup Go. When you are done with these, setup MinGW-w64 and add it to your PATH. Download http://static.kivutar.me/openal-soft-1.19.0-bin.zip and extract it, for example in C:. Setup MinGW-w64 and add it to your PATH. Download http://static.kivutar.me/openal-soft-1.19.0-bin.zip and extract it, for example in C:.

export CGO_CFLAGS="-I/c/openal-soft-1.19.0-bin/include/"
export CGO_LDFLAGS="-L/c/openal-soft-1.19.0-bin/build/Release/"

git clone --recursive https://github.com/libretro/ludo.git
cd ludo
go build
./ludo

Mac OS X

First setup Xcode, then setup Homebrew.

brew install go openal-soft
git clone --recursive https://github.com/libretro/ludo.git
cd ludo
go build
./ludo

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