Advancemame Compiling Problem please help

[GMZombie]

ok i have got the diff files for advancemame and the mame source...i wanted to add the no nag patch which i did but i cannot get this frickin compiler to work....can anybody do this as im kinda lost with this linux stuff im just learning it

[elvis]

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[GMZombie]

umm let me see

i used advancemame .90 diff files....
mame .90 source files

im on windows xp and am using msys which is a windows/dos based compiling shell...with gcc 3.2.2

umm svgalib i believe

i get this error
obj/mame/windows/blend/advance/dos/file.o
gcc.exe: no input files
make: *** [obj/mame/windows/blend/advance/dos/file.o] Error 1

no it dosent compile correctly...here is the error i get with a normal source from mame.net
Compiling src/version.c...
gcc.exe: no input files
make: *** [obj/mame/version.o] Error 1

again im not a compiler so i dont know what im doing wrong so please help if you can thanx

[GMZombie]

i dunno im no linux user by any means yet so if there is anybody that would compile this for me i would greatly appriciate it....