I reproduced similar errors trying to build emulation station outside of the retropie setup script:

So following the instructions here:
http://www.emulationstation.org/gettingstarted.html#install_rpi_standalone

I skipped down to this part:

git clone https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation
cd EmulationStation
git checkout unstable
cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++-4.7 .

And I did try adding -DFREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS=/usr/include/freetype2/ before the “.” as suggested in the comments.

But the cmake line always gives similar errors to the above log. I did verify that all the dependencies were installed though I didn’t do the “Compile and install SDL2” part (which I’m assuming was already set up as part of my recent retropie image).

[quote=91550]Did you ever figure this out? I tested it on my rpi2 and cmake worked. Still waiting for the make command to complete. The error makes it sound like your compiler is missing.

Edit:
The make worked. I haven’t run the binary since I didn’t want to have it converting my xml’s in to sqlite, etc.
[/quote]

I never did figure it out. I did check that all the c/c++ compilers were available, including /usr/bin/gcc and g++-4.7.

So all you ended up doing were these four lines?

git clone https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation
cd EmulationStation
git checkout unstable
cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++-4.7 .

At this point I’ll probably just wait until this is pulled into master as I just redid my setup from scratch and want to keep things clean for the time being.