I’ve ammended the wiki (jessie page) added a few dependencies, and some notes at the end for RetroPie specific installs.

see here:

https://github.com/mickelson/attract/wiki/Compiling-on-the-Raspberry-Pi-(Raspbian-Jessie)#notes-for-retropie

I don’t like that it needs x so I don’t know how likely it will be to be included as part of retropie but its at least there to play with.