Compiling Mame32 with MinGW

Download the MinGW packages from Mame.net.
http://www.mame.net/downmain.html
Run the install for MinGW 2 and then overlay the additional zip file. Add the \MinGW\bin directory to your environment path via autoexec.bat or control panel • system • advanced.
Download the latest baseline Mame source.
http://www.mame.net/downmain.html
Extract the contents of the file, allowing directories to be created.
Download the latest Mame32 source.
http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32qa/down.htm
Extract the contents of the file, allowing directories to be created.
Overlay the Mame32 directory structure [and subs] onto the baseline Mame directory. Mame32's \ui directory should go in Mame's \src directory; at the same level as \drivers, \windows, \vidhrdw etc.

To compile with MinGW move the contents of the Mame32 source \htmlhelp directory to their appropriate MingW directories from the fist step.

htmlhelp.h to \MinGW\include\

htmlhelp.lib to \MinGW\lib\

Compile with 'make.exe WINUI=1 SUFFIX=32', Note: case makes a difference.
PS - if compiling with MinGW, to alleviate slowdown in the GUI when using zipped icons, it is necessary to alter src\windows\windows.mak and comment out the winalloc.c. guard pages. After commenting, it should now look like:

# uncomment this line to enable guard pages on all memory allocations

# OSOBJS += $(OBJ)/windows/winalloc.o

Compiling Mame32 with Microsoft Visual Studio

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02/09/2003 03:26:21 PM -0800