Unable to build Commander Genius

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 ?