libretro-db dat_converter has error in msys2

[markwkidd]

UPDATE: I have submitted a PR which fixes the Makefile error but there is still an error on executing dat_converter: ./dat_converter: line 4: ./lua_converter: No such file or directory

I have an msys2 installation set up according to the Compiling Retroarch docs.

1. git clone http://github.com/libretro/retroarch/ (with the Makefile patch)
2. cd retroarch && ./configure
3. cd libretro-db
4. make
5. $ ./dat_converter "MAME 2003-Plus.rdb" "MAME 2003-Plus.dat"

Error: ./dat_converter: line 4: ./lua_converter: No such file or directory

[ofry]

Maybe it's related:

libretro/libretro-super#905

[ofry]

What do you mean? My issue still exist now.

[markwkidd]

I've submitted a PR to apply that diff to the Makefile #7594

[markwkidd]

I'm able to get farther in the process now but now I'm getting an error that the lua script doesn't exist.

1. git clone http://github.com/libretro/retroarch/ (with the Makefile patch)
2. cd retroarch && ./configure
3. cd libretro-db
4. make
5. $ ./dat_converter "MAME 2003-Plus.rdb" "MAME 2003-Plus.dat"

Error: ./dat_converter: line 4: ./lua_converter: No such file or directory

[markwkidd]

Minor update: When using the build_databases script from libretro-super to build all of the RDB files, this error does not occur so I'll assume there is something in that script which needs to be added to the instructions for compiling a single RDB.

[ghost]

libretro-database-build uses c_converter "rdb" "dat", not dat_converter which uses lua (i dont remember using this before to create rdb)

[markwkidd]

Thanks @retro-wertz that is quite useful to know.

Once this is sorted out there should definitely be an update to the libretro-db README: https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/tree/master/libretro-db#dat-file-converter

I'll be glad to write the update -- just wanted to post in the instructions I was following for reference