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Title: Compiled MAME much bigger than normal?
Post by: electricd on January 13, 2006, 01:39:01 pm

Hello,

I just download the MAME .103 source files and made 6 line changes and recompiled using the MingW document on mame.net.  Once it was all done, I ended up with a 35.1MB MAME executable file.  The actual MAME .103 binary download is only 8.24MB.  Where is this difference coming from?  I am assuming my 35.1MB version is going to take more resources to run than the 8.24MB version?  Did I do something wrong?

ED7

Title: Re: Compiled MAME much bigger than normal?
Post by: Farmboy90 on January 13, 2006, 01:41:51 pm

Dude I just had this same issue.  Mame compresses the executable with upx.exe.

I downloaded it last night and now the exe is only 8 megs.

http://upx.sourceforge.net/

Title: Re: Compiled MAME much bigger than normal?
Post by: electricd on January 13, 2006, 01:48:10 pm

I assume you just ran it at default? (ie upx mame.exe)

Title: Re: Compiled MAME much bigger than normal?
Post by: Farmboy90 on January 13, 2006, 01:50:04 pm

Quote from: electricd on January 13, 2006, 01:48:10 pm

I assume you just ran it at default? (ie upx mame.exe)

uh huh     :)

Title: Re: Compiled MAME much bigger than normal?
Post by: Thenasty on January 13, 2006, 02:07:21 pm

mamdev uses this switch.

upx -9 mame.exe