Cannot compile source code for MAME

[zebrazach27]

I am making an arcade cabinet and will be using MAME for my emulator of choice. I am running a 32 bit desktop with win 7.
After trying to launch MAME, it gave me a message about Direct3D renderer and how I cannot launch MAME. I saw a forum post in groovyMAME section on here where they had the same problem. Their solution was to edit the drawd3d.cpp file in the mame binary source code. However, when I went to compile the code in Mame Compiler 64, it would not let me download the build tools or any other files. I downloaded them manually from the github link, but was greeted with the message, “The System cannot find the file specified” when going to compile the code.

If anyone has any advice on anything here in order to get MAME to launch, that would be greatly appreciated. If there is any new way to get MAME to launch, please let me know. Thanks in advance.

[meyer980]

Hmm, I'll be honest, never complied MAME on my own before. Couple thoughts though:
1. If you're running 32 bit windows, you won't be able to use the 64 bit compiler (I think) so watch out for that
2. Instead of editing in the compile, have you tried just adjusting the mame.ini file on your original install? I believe in the "# OSD VIDEO OPTIONS" header, you can adjust the "video" line. Right now it's probably set to auto or d3d. Maybe try switching to opengl? If you don't have a mame.ini file, you can generate one. Or, you can launch a single-use instance of mame through command line using the different settings. More on that here: https://docs.mamedev.org/commandline/commandline-all.html

I believe the different options you can set in the mame.ini file video options are as follows. Good luck!
auto
none
gdi
d3d
opengl
bgfx