Mac setup

This guide has been tested on MacOS 13.0.1 on an M1 chip.

1. Install a recent version of rust

To use agb, you'll need to use nightly rust since it requires a few nightly features. Firstly, ensure that you have rustup installed which you can do by following the instructions on the rust website

If you have already installed rustup, you can update it with rustup update.

2. Get git

The source code for the game is hosted on github, so you will need git installed. Follow the instructions at git-scm.com

3. GBA Emulator - mGBA

We recommend using the mGBA emulator which you can download for Mac here.

After installing to your /Applications folder you can add the binary to your path and create an alias for the agb run command to use.

• Add /Applications/mGBA.app/Contents/MacOS to /etc/paths
• Inside the /Applications/mGBA.app/Contents/MacOS directory (in a terminal) run: ln -s mGBA mgba-qt

4. Real hardware - gbafix

In order to be able to play games made with agb on real hardware or on some emulators, you will need to install 'agb-gbafix'. Agb's implementation can be installed very easily using cargo install agb-gbafix.

Make sure that the Cargo bin directory is in your PATH as we'll need to use it later.

That is all you need to get started! You can now move on to 'building the game'.