Game porting toolkit installation fails with FreeType error

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GMcGreen OP

Created Oct ’23

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Hi there,

I'm currently trying to install the game porting toolkit on my M2pro Mac Mini. (MacOS Sonoma 14.0) As the InstallAware AGPT-Installer always failed with "error 1" (..check disk space blabla) I tried the installation using the console and the steps described here: https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/Game_Porting_Toolkit

But: The general installation step always fails:

brew -v install apple/apple/game-porting-toolkit

It results in the following error:

Error: apple/apple/game-porting-toolkit 1.0.4 did not build
Logs:
     /Users/jgruen/Library/Logs/Homebrew/game-porting-toolkit/00.options.out
     /Users/jgruen/Library/Logs/Homebrew/game-porting-toolkit/wine64-build
     /Users/jgruen/Library/Logs/Homebrew/game-porting-toolkit/01.configure.cc
     /Users/jgruen/Library/Logs/Homebrew/game-porting-toolkit/01.configure
If reporting this issue please do so to (not Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/homebrew-core):
  apple/apple

If you scroll up, you can see the likely source of the problem:

...
checking for ft2build.h... yes
checking for -lfreetype... not found
configure: error: FreeType 64-bit development files not found. Fonts will not be built.
Use the --without-freetype option if you really want this.
...

Note that I also have XCode 15.0 installed. FreeType is also available under /usr/local/opt/ All previous steps were ok. This one fails.

How can I "install" the 64 bit development version? By the way I also have the include files, so some kind of FreeType dev code is here. (/usr/local/include/freetype2/ft2build.h for example)

Any help or idea would be cool.

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GMcGreen OP

Oct ’23

Figured it out. If anyone runs into the same problem, here is the fix which helped me.

First I tried to install FreeType again using brew.

brew install freetype

The output was:

Warning: freetype 2.13.2 is already installed, it's just not linked.
To link this version, run:
  brew link freetype

So I tried to link again. There were already some files under "/usr/local/include/..", so I removed them. "Brew link freetype" now ran without problems. After that brew install was able to install the game porting toolkit. Yay!

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