Download
the MinGW package from Mame.net.
http://www.mame.net/downmain.html
Extract the contents of the file, allowing directories to be created. 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.
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
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