added installation troubleshooting info for macOS users #1924
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I included details of what I needed to do to get this to compile on macOS
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Using Rosetta is required for Apple Silicon Macs. The pokefirered INSTALL.md already mentions this, just copy the comment (and subsequent commands) from there instead. |
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Thanks for the tip, I added all the instructions mentioning the m1 chips to this install.md |
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That's odd. I am on an M1 mac, and I am not using a special Rosetta terminal profile. Nor do I have an amd64 Homebrew or libpng. I am using the regular arm64 homebrew installed in |
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Yeah tbh I only added that because I was asked to copy it from the pokefirered, I installed homebrew a while back and just brew install things. I kind of figured that by including it, people could try the other one if what they did didn't work, but I can remove it or change the comments for the homebrew thing to try the top first and use the second if that fails. |
You'd have to ask the M1 users who added it. I don't have access to one, so I can't verify any of this. I'm going off of what other users have told me. Feel free to update pokefirered if you disagree with its instructions, they should be the same across repos regardless. |
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Ah I see. It's no big deal. I just always get curious around things related to Rosetta and installation processes. Because oftentimes I am bewildered about why something worked for me and not someone else, or vice-versa. |
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Is there anything then I should change to get this added? I think having the extra documentation will help users setting this up |
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Maybe make them both a 'try this then that' situation? |
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If someone else with an M1 can verify this I don't have a problem with it. I don't have access to one myself. |
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I think the advice is just outdated. I've built pokeemerald on multiple M1 macs by installing the regular Apple Silicon Homebrew, and |
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| <summary><i><strong>Note for Apple Silicon (M1) Mac users...</strong></i></summary> | ||
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| > Currently, Homebrew and libng must be installed via Rosetta on Apple Silicon Macs. Before continuing, create a [Terminal shell profile with Rosetta](https://www.astroworldcreations.com/blog/apple-silicon-and-legacy-command-line-software). Be sure to run the commands corresponding to Apple Silicon (M1). | ||
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| 1. Open the Terminal. | ||
| 2. If Homebrew is not installed, then install [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/) by following the instructions on the website. | ||
| 3. Run the following command to install libpng. | ||
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| brew install libpng | ||
| brew install libpng # Intel Macs | ||
| /usr/local/bin/brew install libpng # Apple Silicon (M1) Macs |
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Imo these changes are not necessary
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I still can't speak to M1, but now on an M3 I can add that in addition to brew install libpng I needed to install pkg-config with brew install pkg-config in order for libpng to be found.
| echo "export DEVKITPRO=$DEVKITPRO" >> ~/.bashrc | ||
| echo "export DEVKITPRO=$DEVKITPRO" >> ~/.bashrc # Intel Macs | ||
| echo "export DEVKITPRO=$DEVKITPRO" >> ~/.zshrc # Apple Silicon (M1) Macs | ||
| export DEVKITARM=$DEVKITPRO/devkitARM | ||
| echo "export DEVKITARM=$DEVKITARM" >> ~/.bashrc | ||
| echo "export DEVKITARM=$DEVKITARM" >> ~/.bashrc # Intel Macs | ||
| echo "export DEVKITARM=$DEVKITARM" >> ~/.zshrc # Apple Silicon (M1) Macs | ||
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| echo "if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc; fi" >> ~/.bash_profile | ||
| echo "if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc; fi" >> ~/.bash_profile # Intel Macs | ||
| echo "if [ -f ~/.zshrc ]; then . ~/.zshrc; fi" >> ~/.zprofile # Apple Silicon (M1) Macs |
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But these changes are good and helpful, since M1 macs are going to be using zsh by default now
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Hi there, I'm on an M1 and recently came across the issues mentioned with libpng, came across this and both of these changes helped me fix the issue. Thank you! |
Hey, I'm the original contributor from pokefirered that added the notes about rosetta being required for Apple Silicon Macs (M1 at the time). From my personal experience, it was required for installing libpng so the When I tried installing libpng through the typical brew command, it would appear to install fine but then the I tried reinstalling libpng and even brew a few times but always got that error. It wasn't until I tried using the rosetta terminal for installing libpng that running the I guess it doesnt seem to affect every Apple Silicon user... So maybe there's a more appropriate fix, as I actually consider rosetta to still be a workaround too. The main issue seems to really be the location reference of the library not reading the apple silicon libpng (/opt/homebrew/...) so I had to resort to installing libpng for the other location it was looking for. |
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This would be a great deep dive for someone to figure out. The fact that you have your Homebrew cellar at |
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I added two notes, one about using a VPN to run 'sudo dkp-pacman -Sy' because their servers wouldn't let me connect otherwise. The second was information on running terminal using rosetta, because my make failed unless I opened terminal in rosetta.
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