Compiling...

[TheGatesofBill]

It seems that MAME needs a different setup for MinGW and djgpp than it used to. However, I can't get them set up correctly on my new computer (running WinXPhome). Please help.

[TheGatesofBill]

Please? Someone must be able to help me out.

[lokki]

Please? Someone must be able to help me out.

Hi,
There are step by steps instructions at

http://www.mame.net/compilewin.html

Also there is a mame compiling board if you have any problems at

http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=compiling


Hope this helps

[TalkingOctopus]

This site with a strange name had a MinGW package that finally worked when I compiled.  Give it a try!  

http://www.fetalfoundation.com/index.htm

[SirPeale]

David -

If you'd like, I can zip up my compiler directory for you.  It has compiled everything just fine.  I'm using .78u6 right now.

[TheGatesofBill]

Can it compile both the windows and dos versions? Either way, send it over. I need to get working on No Name MAME again (sorry about the constant delays).

EDIT: Meh, almost forgot the e-mail address. Use sunookitsune@kitsunet.org , it can hold 50 megs.

[SirPeale]

Can it compile both the windows and dos versions? Either way, send it over. I need to get working on No Name MAME again (sorry about the constant delays).

EDIT: Meh, almost forgot the e-mail address. Use sunookitsune@kitsunet.org , it can hold 50 megs.

I don't know about the DOS versions, I've never tried.  Definitely the Windows versions, though.  I'll send it right now.

[TheGatesofBill]

If memory serves, MinGW does the windows version, and DJGPP does the dos version. Someone correct me if I'm wrong though.

[SirPeale]

Well, I won't be able to send that after all.  It was ~21M zipped, and I aparently can not send an email larger than 8.5M.  I only found that out halfway thru sending it out.

[TheGatesofBill]

You could do a multipart zip, or dump it online somewhere. Or I could continue trying to comvince my copy to work.

[SirPoonga]

if you can multipart rar and par it post it on alt.games.mame.  I kow theres a bunch of stuff to install to get a programming setup now, not all completely documented at mame.net.

[TheGatesofBill]

Unfortunately, I have no access to newsgroups.

[nipsmg]

gates of bill:

I JUST downloaded everything today and compiled on Winxp Pro, and it worked

Just go to http://www.mame.net/downmain.html

Download MinGW-2.0.0-3.exe, install to default (c:\mingw)
Download mingw-over.zip, extract into c:\mingw (MAKE SURE you're using folder names in your unzip program)
Download gcc-3.2.2-20030208-1.tar.gz and unzip it in c:\mingw
Download dx70_mgw.zip and unzip it in c:\mingw

Download mame078s.zip and put it wherever, I put it in c:\mingw\mame.

What I did then, is went to a command prompt, went to c:\mingw\mame,

Created compile.bat with:

SET PATH=C:\mingw\bin;%PATH%
make


Saved it, ran compile.bat, and had NO problems.

That should work, step by step.

--NipsMG

[TheGatesofBill]

OK, I'll try MinGW again than I guess. Anyone get DJGPP working?

[SirPeale]

if you can multipart rar and par it post it on alt.games.mame.  I kow theres a bunch of stuff to install to get a programming setup now, not all completely documented at mame.net.

As a regular of alt.games.mame, I take firm exception that you note that you should post binaries to a non-binary group.  I believe you meant to say alt.binaries.emulators.mame.

As AGM is not an official group (read the charter) any binaries could make an ISP stop carrying it.

[TheGatesofBill]

I just figured I'd let you guys know that MinGW is working on my computer now. But no DJGPP yet, so I can't work on the DOS version.