Help getting game to work

it’s for Violated Heroine (200423) i did not manually compile easyrpg but i did update all the cores with

git clone https://github.com/libretro/libretro-super.git
cd libretro-super
./libretro-fetch.sh

not sure how current that is.

I was assuming that the item 53 error was due to something in the games item/armor scripts but a previous version of VH was hanging the same way. so either i’m doing something wrong or the app is.

i tried to build from git following the directions here ( https://wiki.easyrpg.org/development/compiling/player/autotools ) but receive an error

checking for FMT… no
configure: error: Package requirements (fmt >= 5.3) were not met:

No package ‘fmt’ found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

my repository only has fmt version 5.2.1

i cant find a newer version of fmt for arm. i am running a rasberry pi4