Not finding libfmt but libfmt-dev version 5.2.1 installed

[Exarkuniv]

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Player platform:

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Raspberry Pi4/ Buster Debian 10

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Describe the issue in detail and how to reproduce it:

I took over for zerojay who had a script written for have this install on RetroPie and Raspberry's Pis. right not it does not work. it is failing when looking for libfmt, which is installed with libfmt-dev version 5.2.1 it will come up with a prompt for me to install 5.3 or higher, but i know from looking in the issues that you guys it allowed to build with older then 5.3
i know that it is pulling the least build from GuitHub

[Ghabry]

Thanks for the report.

This happens in some build environments and we are not sure why (maybe related to crosscompiling?).

As a workaround you could use CMake as this is supported by fmt 5.2 natively.

[Exarkuniv]

thanks for the quick response. ill give that a try and report back

[Exarkuniv]

ok now that i have taken a better look at whats going. it is failing to find FMT when i run ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-fmmidi=fallback
i dont even get to running cmake

[carstene1ns]

You do not need to run the autoconf stuff when using cmake:

# clone Player repo / use release tarball
cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DPLAYER_BUILD_LIBLCF=ON
cmake --build .
# move the 'easyrpg-player' executable where you want it

[Exarkuniv]

that seemed to work better. it did end up getting a error at the end, but im also getting some other things working weird on my end. so im going to redo my load and start from a clean image and ill report back

[Exarkuniv]

ok i did a clean image and tried it again i still get a error at the end

[ 98%] Linking CXX executable easyrpg-player
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lbcm_host
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/EasyRPG_Player_exe.dir/build.make:109: easyrpg-player] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:193: CMakeFiles/EasyRPG_Player_exe.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:130: all] Error 2

[Ghabry]

This is a library used by the raspberry firmware. No idea honestly why this is pulled in as a dependency.

Could you attach the CMakeCache.txt ?

[carstene1ns]

I suspect it is needed by SDL. However, no idea how the build is invoked, as it should be present in the environment. There have been issues with arm64 version, but this should not matter here.

[Exarkuniv]

well i have downloaded both
https://github.com/EasyRPG/Player.git and https://github.com/EasyRPG/liblcf.git

    cd liblcf
    cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
    cmake --build .
    cmake --build . --target install
   
    cd ..
    cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DPLAYER_BUILD_LIBLCF=ON
    cmake --build .

CMakeCache.txt

https://pastebin.com/YgzF9kr2

[carstene1ns]

You can leave out the liblcf part, as PLAYER_BUILD_LIBLCF uses an internal copy.

Did you install libraspberrypi-dev and libraspberrypi-bin packges?

[Exarkuniv]

ok ill remove downloading and building liblcf now.
and libraspberrypi-dev and libraspberrypi-bin packages are alread installed on the bad image it seems since when i try to install them. it says it already is there i have version 1:1.20211201~buster-1 for both of those

[Ghabry]

I think this is a bug in our FindSDL2 file. The additional library dirs are not included.

My guess to solve this is:

https://github.com/EasyRPG/Player/blob/master/builds/cmake/Modules/FindSDL2.cmake#L269

Add two more lines here:

set_property(TARGET SDL2::SDL2 APPEND_STRING PROPERTY
 INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES "${SDL2PC_STATIC_LIBRARY_DIRS}")

[Exarkuniv]

i did that and i get this

-- Configuring done
CMake Error in CMakeLists.txt:
  Imported target "SDL2::SDL2main" includes non-existent path

    "/usr/include/SDL2/opt/vc/lib"

  in its INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.  Possible reasons include:

  * The path was deleted, renamed, or moved to another location.

  * An install or uninstall procedure did not complete successfully.

  * The installation package was faulty and references files it does not
  provide.

and

[  2%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/EasyRPG_Player.dir/src/audio_midi.cpp.o
In file included from /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/easyrpg-player/src/decoder_opus.h:22,
                 from /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/easyrpg-player/src/audio_decoder.cpp:30:
/usr/include/opus/opusfile.h:110:11: fatal error: opus_multistream.h: No such file or directory
 # include <opus_multistream.h>
           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

[carstene1ns]

Looks like the directories have been wrongly concatenated.

[Exarkuniv]

is that something that i can change, or is it more on your end.
sorry for being kinda a burden. i know nothing when it comes to programming,
i know enough to run commands, and thats about it

[Ghabry]

Read the CMake documentation again.

A list append is APPEND not APPEND_STRING

[Exarkuniv]

changing that seemed to work.
it at least finished compiling without a error.

[Exarkuniv]

yes it seems to be building and also launching now.
i can get the menu at least. have not got any game files at the moment, but its good enough to close the issue