Mupen64plus-ae: Fdroid

Yeah, probably at this point. All the proprietary libraries have been taken care of except for the moga gamepad. It could be removed for the F-droid listing.

After publishing, the main obstacle is keeping the listing to to date, which is a shore on its own.

So AFAIK the owner is supposed to do this, or can I attempt to add it myself? Also, I've noticed that since the transfer from the paulscode repo, there hasn't been a binary release on github, what happened? it might be an idea to start releasing those too?

I'll go ahead and add it to F-droid tonight. Or at least start the process.

The project as currently structured is not compatible with F-droid. These are the errors I get when building for their repository:

ERROR: Found binary at ndkLibs/soundtouch/source/SoundTouch/.vs/SoundTouch/v15/.suo
ERROR: Found shared library at ndkLibs/libs/release/x86/libsoundtouch.so
ERROR: Found shared library at ndkLibs/libs/release/x86/libsoundtouch_fp.so
ERROR: Found shared library at ndkLibs/libs/release/x86/libSDL2.so
ERROR: Found static library at ndkLibs/libs/release/x86/libpng.a
ERROR: Found static library at ndkLibs/libs/release/x86/libEGLLoader.a
ERROR: Found shared library at ndkLibs/libs/release/x86/libfreetype.so
ERROR: Found shared library at ndkLibs/libs/release/armeabi-v7a/libsoundtouch.so
ERROR: Found shared library at ndkLibs/libs/release/armeabi-v7a/libsoundtouch_fp.so
ERROR: Found shared library at ndkLibs/libs/release/armeabi-v7a/libSDL2.so
ERROR: Found static library at ndkLibs/libs/release/armeabi-v7a/libpng.a
ERROR: Found static library at ndkLibs/libs/release/armeabi-v7a/libEGLLoader.a
ERROR: Found shared library at ndkLibs/libs/release/armeabi-v7a/libfreetype.so
ERROR: Found shared library at ndkLibs/libs/debug/x86/libsoundtouch.so
ERROR: Found shared library at ndkLibs/libs/debug/x86/libsoundtouch_fp.so
ERROR: Found shared library at ndkLibs/libs/debug/x86/libSDL2.so
ERROR: Found static library at ndkLibs/libs/debug/x86/libpng.a
ERROR: Found static library at ndkLibs/libs/debug/x86/libEGLLoader.a
ERROR: Found shared library at ndkLibs/libs/debug/x86/libfreetype.so
ERROR: Found shared library at ndkLibs/libs/debug/armeabi-v7a/libsoundtouch.so
ERROR: Found shared library at ndkLibs/libs/debug/armeabi-v7a/libsoundtouch_fp.so
ERROR: Found shared library at ndkLibs/libs/debug/armeabi-v7a/libSDL2.so
ERROR: Found static library at ndkLibs/libs/debug/armeabi-v7a/libpng.a
ERROR: Found static library at ndkLibs/libs/debug/armeabi-v7a/libEGLLoader.a
ERROR: Found shared library at ndkLibs/libs/debug/armeabi-v7a/libfreetype.so
WARNING: Found JAR file at app/libs/com.bda.controller.jar
ERROR: Could not build app org.mupen64plusae.v3.alpha: Can't build due to 25 errors while scanning
INFO: Finished

I would have to make those 6 open source projects part of the build structure.

I can disable those errors and make a pull request in the F-droid repository according to this it seems: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Building_Applications/

All the native libraries except for the jar file come from https://github.com/mupen64plus-ae/mupen64plus-ae-deps. So I think they should be able to make an exception.

I submitted a "merge request" in the fdroid repository:

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/merge_requests/3017

So, there seems to be a general lack of support in their gitlab repository. Not sure how long it will take to go in.

I give up on this... They haven't even replied to my questions.

Sorry for this, @fzurita. F-Droid members are very busy, and the qualified members who are able to answer your questions are even more busy...

Please reopen both this issue and the Gitlab MR, somebody could have a look later, so that your hard work on the inclusion of this app in F-Droid reach his final goal !

(ping @Rudloff)

Ok, thanks :)

Done! Listing should be available in a few days.

Thanks for your patience, @fzurita :)

No problem, I'm glad I was able to get the app in eventually.

will transferring from the play store version to the f-droid version mean i will lose my configuration, saves etc?

Only some configuration. You can transfer save state and other ROM specific data by renaming /sdcard/mupen64plus-fz to /sdcard/mupen64plus-ae

Whoops I mean, it needs to be /sdcard/mupen64plus

It will be whatever folder the app creates when it first starts up.