Mupen64Plus supports a single data directory and a single plugin directory in its configuration, yet we need data and plugin files from a variety of packages. The best way to deal with this is to install all packages from which data and plugin files are needed into one's profile, and point the configuration there. Hence, the ui-console package provides propagated inputs for packages with the most important data and plugin files, and this patch provides the user instructions on what needs to be done in order to have Mupen64Plus find the relevant data and plugins. --- a/src/plugin.c +++ b/src/plugin.c @@ -122,6 +122,22 @@ m64p_error PluginSearchLoad(m64p_handle ConfigUI) { const char *plugindir = (*ConfigGetParamString)(ConfigUI, "PluginDir"); lib_filelist = osal_library_search(plugindir); + /* Guix specific */ + if (lib_filelist == NULL) + { + DebugMessage(M64MSG_ERROR, "No plugins found in PluginDir path: %s", plugindir); + DebugMessage(M64MSG_ERROR, + "\n\n" + "*********************************\n" + "*** Notice for GNU Guix users ***\n" + "*********************************\n" + "\n" + "You might want to edit your mupen64plus.cfg (in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME by default)\n" + "and set SharedDataPath to /path/to/my_guix_profile/share/mupen64plus and\n" + "PluginDir to /path/to/my_guix_profile/lib/mupen64plus so that data and plugins\n" + "are found.\n" + "\n"); + } } /* if still no plugins found, search some common system folders */