Fails to start on raspberry pi

[pulb]

If if I try to start emulationstation unstable on my raspberry pi (arch linux) I get the following error:

lvl0: Error initializing SDL!
No available video device
lvl0: Renderer failed to initialize!
lvl0: Window failed to initialize!

I used this recipe to build it:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/em/emulationstation-git-unstable/PKGBUILD

[pulb]

Don't know if this matters but I got this warning while building:

CMake Warning at es-app/CMakeLists.txt:102 (add_executable):
Cannot generate a safe linker search path for target emulationstation
because files in some directories may conflict with libraries in implicit
directories:

link library [libGLESv1_CM.so] in /usr/lib may be hidden by files in:
/opt/vc/lib

Some of these libraries may not be found correctly.

[Aloshi]

This might be giving you a version of SDL2 that doesn't have the Raspberry Pi driver compiled in (it was added in SDL2 v2.0.1).

[pulb]

Hmm no, arch always has the latest packages. SDL2 is currently at version 2.0.3. ES is supposed to be working without an xserver right?

[Aloshi]

Yeah, that should be working. Does it work with an xserver? (It shouldn't require it, I'm just curious if that works.)

[pulb]

Nevermind, I found the reason. The SDL2 arch package was compiled without EGL support. I guess I submit this PKGBUILD to the AUR.

[pietrondo]

same problem with raspberry2 on archlinux and pkgbuild of sdl with egl of pulb

[ignaciohita]

Please pulb, can you give us some steps to fix this problem? I can see what you did but I don't know how to make it work in my Raspberry since I'm a newie.

Thanks!

[pulb]

@ignaciohita: you have to compile this package on your raspberry pi using this method.