MAME 0.162 build error

[Jonny G]

Being doing a bit of mucking around with the source code in MAME starting with the previous version (0.161)

In that version, the file "src/mame/mame.lst" could be edited to remove references to any roms you wanted to exclude from the build. In my case the removal of all mechanical/pinball/fruit machine related stuff.

However, in 0.162 the structure has changed so that "src/mame/mame.lst" now just links to two files, "arcade.lst" and "mess.lst".

The contents of "arcade.lst" are the same as "mame.lst" from the prev. version but applying the same edits as before produces a non working build. ClrMamePro cannot extract any info from it.

Anyone got any ideas?

[Jonny G]

Been researching this myself, looks as though because MAME and MESS are now combined, the XML output is now different, requiring rom managers to be updater. (Luckily it looks like CMP has been).

As I never tried to compile without my edits I don't know if that too would suffer the same problems. Gonna find out...

[Jonny G]

New CMP fixed things.