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

[Frostyzx]

Wow it worked! thx kind human!

 

[SidDays]

Will this work using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS? I'm having trouble installing the 18.04 release.

 

[Lunos]

Will this work using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS? I'm having trouble installing the 18.04 release.

There's a chance it will, but I haven't tried it myself so I can't say for sure.

 

[Subzero Eclipse]

Hello, I'm having a problem while trying to install the .deb package. When I try the sudo command it says that the packages libarchive13, pkg-config and make which devkitpro-pacman depends on are not installed. What can I do? Thanks in advance

 

[Lunos]

Hello, I'm having a problem while trying to install the .deb package. When I try the sudo command it says that the packages libarchive13, pkg-config and make which devkitpro-pacman depends on are not installed. What can I do? Thanks in advance

I'm in the process of rewriting and reordering some of the steps of this tutorial as we speak.
I will edit this post when it's ready.

EDIT: Alright, it took me around 2 hours, but it's done.
Funny, in your current state, I suggest you to resume the tutorial on the 3rd Step.

 

[Subzero Eclipse]

Worked perfectly, thanks again =)

 

[CivilizedWasteland]

on the "sudo dkp-pacman -S gba-dev" step it asks for a number before installing





nevermind i figured it out you just press enter to install all

 

[Lunos]

on the "sudo dkp-pacman -S gba-dev" step it asks for a number before installing

nevermind i figured it out you just press enter to install all

You could have just read the main post, you know...?

As soon as we input this command, we'll press Enter and then we'll be asked if we want to proceed with the installation, to which we'll say "y" and then press Enter again.

I'll take the chance to remind everyone coming here to take your time and read everything thoroughly. Don't rush it.

 

[OsoheGhost]

when on the "sudo dkp-pacman -S gba-dev" step wsl gives an Unrecognized archive format error. I feel like this is something obvious Ive missed, have you seen this error before?

 

[Lunos]

when on the "sudo dkp-pacman -S gba-dev" step wsl gives an Unrecognized archive format error. I feel like this is something obvious Ive missed, have you seen this error before?

I haven't, but I found this piece of information about that error.
https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Pacman_troubleshooting#.22Unrecognized_archive_format.22_Error

 

[CivilizedWasteland]

when you say press enter it makes it sound like you're talking about inputting the previous command, not hitting enter for the next prompt

 

[Lunos]

when you say press enter it makes it sound like you're talking about inputting the previous command, not hitting enter for the next prompt

Alright then, I'll slightly reword that step to make it clearer then. I appreciate your feedback.

 

[Lunos]

Minor update to the tutorial. I modified the instructions to install devkitPro slightly in accordance to what is officially provided on dkP's wiki.
People who already has devkitPro installed don't really need to go out of their way to reinstall devkitPro or anything though, so just carry on.

 

[Lunos]

Another minor update. This time for the very first step of the tutorial.
The command to enable WSL that I mentioned was deprecated, so I replaced it with the command suggested by Microsoft themselves in their article about enabling WSL instead.

 

[Hejhuquat]

A few small questions from a very inexperienced beginner:

1). How many "threads" is considered appropriate (from step 10, creating the rom)

2). If I created my files in my downloads folder is it as safe and simple as dragging and dropping the created folders into the /user directory or are there some extra steps?

Thank you in advance!

 

[Lunos]

1). How many "threads" is considered appropriate (from step 10, creating the rom)

As many as you want. I personally use nproc - 1, meaning that if my CPU has 4 threads, I like to assign 3.
That way, a thread is always free and I can browse pages or do whatever as a ROM gets built.

2). If I created my files in my downloads folder is it as safe and simple as dragging and dropping the created folders into the /user directory or are there some extra steps?

You mean moving your pokeemerald folder somewhere else? Everything should still work just fine, yeah.
As long as you're aware of its new location to go there via the cd, you can put it even in the Desktop if you wanted to.

 

[KingJester647]

I had the same issue as im_mega, when cloning agbcc i get:
Cloning into 'agbcc'...
error: chmod on /mnt/c/Users/user/Decomps/agbcc/.git/config.lock failed: Operation not permitted
fatal: could not set 'core.filemode' to 'false'

I tried the sudo commands but those didn't work, when I type in: sudo mount -t drvfs C: /mnt/c -o metadata, i get:
mount: /mnt/c: C: already mounted or mount point busy.
<3>init: (17119) ERROR: UtilCreateProcessAndWait:489: /bin/mount failed with status 0x2000
No error information

 

[Lunos]

I had the same issue as im_mega, when cloning agbcc i get:
Cloning into 'agbcc'...
error: chmod on /mnt/c/Users/user/Decomps/agbcc/.git/config.lock failed: Operation not permitted
fatal: could not set 'core.filemode' to 'false'

I tried the sudo commands but those didn't work, when I type in: sudo mount -t drvfs C: /mnt/c -o metadata, i get:
mount: /mnt/c: C: already mounted or mount point busy.
<3>init: (17119) ERROR: UtilCreateProcessAndWait:489: /bin/mount failed with status 0x2000
No error information

You did type sudo umount /mnt/c before sudo mount -t drvfs C: /mnt/c -o metadata though, right?

 

[KingJester647]

Yes I did, it just says:
umount: /mnt/c: target is busy.

 

[Lunos]

Yes I did, it just says:
umount: /mnt/c: target is busy.

Close WSL and end its service (Win Key + R -> services.msc -> right click LxssManager -> Stop).
Now open WSL again and try to type in the commands right afterward.