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[Tutorial] How to build the Pokémon GBA decomps using WSL (Win10)

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    • N1ghtXD

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    I have ran into a lot of issues while using this tutorial but I was able to get everything to work by going through the comment on this post up until the final step where I got this error

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    dose anyone know a fix?
     
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    • N1ghtXD said:
    I have ran into a lot of issues while using this tutorial but I was able to get everything to work by going through the comment on this post up until the final step where I got this error

    Spoiler:


    dose anyone know a fix?
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    Like you're told right there, "the '-j' option requires a positive integer argument".
    I think that I know what exactly is the issue. You wrote make -jN and expected it to work even though I said right there, in the very next line, that N is supposed to be a number, didn't you?
    Please do read the main post carefully.
     

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    Thank you for replying so fast I apologize for wasting your time, I did try this at one point but I don't think I have the pokeemerald file installed properly. Thank you for the great tutorial
     

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    Hey team, firstly want to say how appreciated it is you've kept up with this thread after so long @Lunos.

    I am having difficulty @ step 5. I have successfully used "cd downloads", yet after downloading the installer from the github, running "sudo gdebi devkitpro-pacman.amd64.deb" causes the following:

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    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    Reading state information... Done
    Reading state information... Done
    This package is uninstallable
    Dependency is not satisfiable: libssl1.1

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    As it stands, I have followed instructions as directed, asides from that I am using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I would appreciate any/all feedback! :)

    (My best guess is I needed to download something on top of devkitpro-pacman.amd64.deb. I am very unfamilar with github....)
     
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    • coolkong said:
    Hey team, firstly want to say how appreciated it is you've kept up with this thread after so long @Lunos.

    I am having difficulty @ step 5. I have successfully used "cd downloads", yet after downloading the installer from the github, running "sudo gdebi devkitpro-pacman.amd64.deb" causes the following:

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    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree... Done
    Reading state information... Done
    Reading state information... Done
    This package is uninstallable
    Dependency is not satisfiable: libssl1.1

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    As it stands, I have followed instructions as directed, asides from that I am using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I would appreciate any/all feedback! :)

    (My best guess is I needed to download something on top of devkitpro-pacman.amd64.deb. I am very unfamilar with github....)
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    That's an interesting error. I don't think I had to go out of my way to install libssl.
    When you installed your Linux distro, did you remember to use sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade?
    If not, I imagine that's the problem, as that updates package lists and installed packages too which may involve installing new required libraries for existing packages under the hood.

    If you already did that though, then try to install libssl manually through WSL by using sudo apt install libssl-dev.
    You don't need to download anything from GitHub besides the .deb package of devkitpro-pacman.
     

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    Lunos said:
    That's an interesting error. I don't think I had to go out of my way to install libssl.
    When you installed your Linux distro, did you remember to use sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade?
    If not, I imagine that's the problem, as that updates package lists and installed packages too which may involve installing new required libraries for existing packages under the hood.

    If you already did that though, then try to install libssl manually through WSL by using sudo apt install libssl-dev.
    You don't need to download anything from GitHub besides the .deb package of devkitpro-pacman.
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    Hey again,

    I've followed through with all the provided instructions, and I have used "sudo apt install libssl-dev". Unfortunately, I am still getting the same error. :( Cheers for your input anyways!
     

    DusknoirDude42

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    so i followed all of the steps, but cant seem to locate any of the files or my rom. where can i find them?
     
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    • DusknoirDude42 said:
    so i followed all of the steps, but cant seem to locate any of the files or my rom. where can i find them?
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    If you read the main post, you should know exactly where your ROM is.
    In the main post, the user is told to clone Pokeemerald inside a "Decomps" folder that was created by the user themself inside C:\Users\USER.
    As a result, you'll naturally find your ROM inside C:\Users\USER\Pokeemerald after you do build one following the instructions in the main post.
     
    MariaJumpMan!

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    EDIT: Fixed! :D
     
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    So I am still new to a lot of this.

    I have seen a lot of keywords have changed since I first got the Git, is there a way to know which of my code changes will be incompatible if I was to update to the new master files?
     
    Lunos

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    • AlmightyK said:
    So I am still new to a lot of this.

    I have seen a lot of keywords have changed since I first got the Git, is there a way to know which of my code changes will be incompatible if I was to update to the new master files?
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    What keywords?
    To answer the question, there isn't a way to know which parts of your code need an update until you go, pull and try to build a ROM.
     

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    Lunos said:
    What keywords?
    To answer the question, there isn't a way to know which parts of your code need an update until you go, pull and try to build a ROM.
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    I can't think of specific ones but I pulled it over a year ago.

    Oh well, time to dive in and try.
     
    Subzero Eclipse

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    Hello! I was trying to set up WSL on my new laptop and after installing the app from the store, I get a screen (not the command line) saying "Something went wrong. Please restart wsl with the following command and try again: wsl --shutdown wsl unregister DISTRO_NAME". What should I do here? I have Windows 11 and installed the Ubuntu app with no version number. Thanks in advance!
     

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    • Subzero Eclipse said:
    Hello! I was trying to set up WSL on my new laptop and after installing the app from the store, I get a screen (not the command line) saying "Something went wrong. Please restart wsl with the following command and try again: wsl --shutdown wsl unregister DISTRO_NAME". What should I do here? I have Windows 11 and installed the Ubuntu app with no version number. Thanks in advance!
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    I use the .appx myself, but if I were you I'd open a Windows Powershell or a Windows Command Prompt as Administrator and follow the suggestion.
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    wsl --shutdown
wsl --unregister <distro_name>
    And then try to install it again from the store, though if that doesn't work, you can use wsl --install on Powershell and that should work nicely too.

    To find out the exact name of your distro, you can use wsl -l.
     
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    Sorry to disturb you again, but I got another problem :( For installing WSL itself, I tried doing that but I couldn't find the distro, so I managed to install the 18.04 version though (the one you mentioned in the main post) and made it work.

    However, when I got to installing devkitPro it gives me errors saying "version 'GLIBC_2.28 ' not found (required by pacman-conf)" and that I don't have permission to read the pacman keyring :\

    EDIT: Actually, nevermind that. After digging in the pret Discord, I found out that the version I had is outdated, apparently. So I installed 22.04 and I got it working. Sorry for the stupid questions >__<
     

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    I don't understand why this is failing...
     
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