Does kodi 17 still needs sdl for controller input?

I have installed kodi 17 from the arch repo (kodi-rbp) and it isnt detecting a ps3 controller. I thought that with this release you should be able to configure any input from the menu but it is not recognized. Does kodi still needs to be build with the SDL flag in order to support a game controller? Do I need to install any other sofware like libcec for CEC?

Thanks

EDIT: I have seen that the package is not built with the peripheral.joystick binary add on.
Is there any easy way of compiling it without recompilig the full kodi?