Unable to 'make" a .gba file

[Korah5282]

I'm attempting to build DraftEmerald (https://github.com/Kobazco/DraftEmerald) from Alpharad's Youtube video of him and 5 others playing this hack. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svgylR1xRwk&t=727s)

I'm using MSYS2 and every time I attempt to build it it gives me this error despite downloading everything in the tutorial:

"
convert_png.c:5:10: fatal error: png.h: No such file or directory
5 | #include <png.h>
| ^~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: [Makefile:18: gbagfx] Error 1
make[1]: [Makefile:169: tools/gbagfx] Error 2
arm-none-eabi-gcc -Wall -Wextra -Wno-switch -Werror -std=c11 -O2 main.c extended.c -o aif2pcm -lm
arm-none-eabi-gcc -Wall -Wextra -Werror -std=c11 -O2 bin2c.c -o bin2c
arm-none-eabi-gcc gbafix.c -o gbafix
arm-none-eabi-gcc -Wall -Wextra -Werror -Wno-sign-compare -std=c11 -O2 -DPNG_SKIP_SETJMP_CHECK main.c convert_png.c gfx.c jasc_pal.c lz.c rl.c util.c font.c huff.c -o gbagfx -lpng -lz
/bin/bash: line 1: tools/scaninc/scaninc.exe: No such file or directory
"

It says I'm missing a file called png.h and scaninc.exe but I have no idea where these files could located or how I could get them. This is the last thing I need to build this and I'm out of ideas.... can anyone help?

 

[Lunos]

I'm attempting to build DraftEmerald (https://github.com/Kobazco/DraftEmerald) from Alpharad's Youtube video of him and 5 others playing this hack. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svgylR1xRwk&t=727s)

I'm using MSYS2 and every time I attempt to build it it gives me this error despite downloading everything in the tutorial:

"
convert_png.c:5:10: fatal error: png.h: No such file or directory
5 | #include <png.h>
| ^~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: [Makefile:18: gbagfx] Error 1
make[1]: [Makefile:169: tools/gbagfx] Error 2
arm-none-eabi-gcc -Wall -Wextra -Wno-switch -Werror -std=c11 -O2 main.c extended.c -o aif2pcm -lm
arm-none-eabi-gcc -Wall -Wextra -Werror -std=c11 -O2 bin2c.c -o bin2c
arm-none-eabi-gcc gbafix.c -o gbafix
arm-none-eabi-gcc -Wall -Wextra -Werror -Wno-sign-compare -std=c11 -O2 -DPNG_SKIP_SETJMP_CHECK main.c convert_png.c gfx.c jasc_pal.c lz.c rl.c util.c font.c huff.c -o gbagfx -lpng -lz
/bin/bash: line 1: tools/scaninc/scaninc.exe: No such file or directory
"

It says I'm missing a file called png.h and scaninc.exe but I have no idea where these files could located or how I could get them. This is the last thing I need to build this and I'm out of ideas.... can anyone help?

Errors involving the png.h header file tend to be caused by a lack of libpng.
You don't have libpng installed in your environment, or your environment can't find your installation of libpng.
I teach how to build it from the source code and install it in MSys2 right here.

 

[Piprem]

Hijacking this old post since I'm running into a similar issue on MSys2--

I followed your tutorial to install libpng, with the only substitution replacing pokeruby with pokeemerald-ex-speedchoice from github. I did not run into any errors with missing a png.h file, but still get the error about scaninc.exe not being present in the directory. It ran for a few seconds before it spat out ~100 lines of the following error after I input make -j2:

/bin/bash: line 1: tools/scaninc/scaninc.exe: No such file or directory
And then ended with:

tools/jsonproc/jsonproc.exe src/data/wild_encounters.json src/data/wild_encounters.json.txt src/data/wild_encounters.h /bin/bash: line 1: tools/jsonproc/jsonproc.exe: No such file or directory /bin/bash: line 1: tools/scaninc/scaninc.exe: No such file or directory make: *** [json_data_rules.mk:8: src/data/wild_encounters.h] Error 127

I'm relatively new to this stuff so still trying to figure it all out... Any ideas?

 

[Lunos]

Hijacking this old post since I'm running into a similar issue on MSys2--

I followed your tutorial to install libpng, with the only substitution replacing pokeruby with pokeemerald-ex-speedchoice from github. I did not run into any errors with missing a png.h file, but still get the error about scaninc.exe not being present in the directory. It ran for a few seconds before it spat out ~100 lines of the following error after I input make -j2:

/bin/bash: line 1: tools/scaninc/scaninc.exe: No such file or directory
And then ended with:

tools/jsonproc/jsonproc.exe src/data/wild_encounters.json src/data/wild_encounters.json.txt src/data/wild_encounters.h /bin/bash: line 1: tools/jsonproc/jsonproc.exe: No such file or directory /bin/bash: line 1: tools/scaninc/scaninc.exe: No such file or directory make: *** [json_data_rules.mk:8: src/data/wild_encounters.h] Error 127

I'm relatively new to this stuff so still trying to figure it all out... Any ideas?

Speedchoice needs additional packages such as capstone. Perhaps that's the reason why preproc and scaninc weren't built on your end.
sudo apt install libcapstone-dev, make clean, make tools and if that doesn't throw any errors, proceed with make -jN where N is the number of CPU threads you want to assign.

 

[Piprem]

Where would I run those commands? In the home folder or the cloned Speedchoice folder?

 

[Lunos]

Where would I run those commands? In the home folder or the cloned Speedchoice folder?

The first one doesn't matter where you run it.
The other 3 you'd run them on WSL while navigating the speedchoice folder, naturally.