Unable to build Commander Genius

[war3zlod3r]

Pi Model 3B+
PSU 5v 2.5amp
Retropie 4.4 with setup script 4.4.1
Could not successfully build cgenius - Commander Genius - Modern Interpreter for the Commander Keen Games (Vorticon and Galaxy Games) (/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/cgenius/src/CGeniusExe not found).

log: https://paste.ee/p/h3b0m

sorry log was too big for pastebin

[mitu]

You're missing some required libraries when building

[...]
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/cgenius/GsKit/graphics/GsTexture.h:5:23: fatal error: SDL_image.h: No such file or directory
[...]

These dependencies should have been automatically installed by the RetroPie-Setup script (package libsdl2-image-dev), but it seems they're not. Can you install them manually with the command

sudo apt-get -y install build-essential cmake libcurl4-openssl-dev libvorbis-dev libogg-dev libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libboost-dev python3-dev

and then retry the installation ?

[war3zlod3r]

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version (12.3).
cmake is already the newest version (3.7.2-1).
libboost-dev is already the newest version (1.62.0.1+b4).
libcurl4-openssl-dev is already the newest version (7.52.1-5+deb9u6).
libogg-dev is already the newest version (1.3.2-1).
libsdl2-image-dev is already the newest version (2.0.1+dfsg-2+deb9u1).
libsdl2-mixer-dev is already the newest version (2.0.1+dfsg1-1).
libvorbis-dev is already the newest version (1.3.5-4+deb9u2).
python3-dev is already the newest version (3.5.3-1).
python3-dev set to manually installed.
libsdl2-dev is already the newest version (2.0.8+1rpi).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

is the return I get when running that command

edit: love the megaman avatar btw!

[mitu]

Hm, there doesn't seem to be any radical changes recently in the upstream repository. I'll take a look to build it myself, but just to eliminate any corruption, can you re-install the the SDL deveopment libraries dependencies:

sudo apt-get -y install --reinstall libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev

and then retry building ?

[war3zlod3r]

Thanks so much for the quick responses, still giving me the same build error though, noticed I also have issues trying to build Abuse

Edit: seems to work on my Pi Zero W fine

Edit 2: not sure if this helps but here is my abuse build log https://paste.ee/p/uRqtq

[mitu]

I tried building CGenius and I don't get any errors building - in the same step you're having the error. Looking over the CMake output, I see that on my system I have SDL detected in the system's folder

[..]
-- Found Threads: TRUE
-- Found SDL2: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libSDL2main.a;/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libSDL2.so;-lpthread
[...]

while in your log it's detected in the local site folder

-- Found Threads: TRUE  
-- Found SDL2: /usr/local/lib/libSDL2main.a;/usr/local/lib/libSDL2.so;-lpthread  

while the rest of the SDL2 libraries (mixer, image) are in the system folders (/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/). This SDL installation mismatch is probably what's causing the compilation to fail.

Did you install manually SDL2 into your system ? What image have you used to install RetroPie ?

[war3zlod3r]

I did not install SDL manually but I did install retropie manually over raspbian stretch, I built it back in march when there wasn't yet a compatible image for the 3B+. Is there a way to resolve this mismatch?

[mitu]

I can't give any advice on how to get it removed since I don't know how it got there and how it was installed, plus there might be other software that depends on it (especially if it was built from source).

[war3zlod3r]

so best bet is to backup my files and reimage?

[mitu]

@war3zlod3r said in Unable to build Commander Genius:

so best bet is to backup my files and reimage?

Probably yes.

[war3zlod3r]

@mitu well drat, thank you so much for the help I appreciate you taking the time to help me narrow down the problem

[war3zlod3r]

is the current posted retropie 4.4 image compatible with 3B+ or should I just reinstall from scratch?

[mitu]

@war3zlod3r How about checking the news and the download page ?