Compiling MAME

[DaemonCollector]

I'm tryin to compile mame myself but when I do I get an EXE that is 30 some meg...what did I do wrong?

[SpamMe]

Nothing, that's normal. Download and use this to get it down to a few mb instead of 30.
http://upx.sourceforge.net/

[DaemonCollector]

Worked like a champ, thank you much 40 meg to 6.

[lokki]

Worked like a champ, thank you much 40 meg to 6.

Uncompressed mame requires less RAM than compressed MAME. When a program is UPXed the entire executable is loaded into memory (where it is compressed).

So unless you are low on disk space (and have plenty of RAM) I would use the uncompressed MAME