[Coco] MAME Compile times on a RPi

[Glen Hewlett]

Hi Guys,

In the past I actually timed compiling MAME 0.171 on an RPI 2 and it took 4 hours and 9 minutes.  If anyone is interested in seeing the details I posted all the details here: https://nowhereman999.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/compile-mame-0-171-on-a-raspberry-pi-2/ <https://nowhereman999.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/compile-mame-0-171-on-a-raspberry-pi-2/>

At the time I was also testing out compiling times using different microSD cards and there was quite a difference in speed.  I lost my notes about which microSD cards were the fastest, but I remember being surprised that some labelled with faster read and write times weren’t always the fastest for compiling MAME.  It might have had something to do with internal buffering on the cards because I remember also doing some direct speed tests with the microSD cards and the faster ones were faster in those tests, but not when it came to compiling.

Just thought I’d pass the info along….

Cheers,
Glen

> On Mar 16, 2017, at 6:24 AM, Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 
> On 16/03/2017 4:00 AM, Ron Klein wrote:
> 
>> I need to check to see about cross
>> compiling for ARM architecture.  I know there are some library dependencies
>> that would need to be met in order for this to work -- especially around
>> the video hardware acceleration part (SDL2).
> 
> Obviously this is possible given the right libraries etc (my work involves cross-compiling linux libs/apps for an ARM target) but it may be easier - at least as a first pass - to compile under QEMU, for example. Although I looked at this possibility for my above-mentioned work, I opted against going down that path so never tried it myself.
> 
> Regards,
> 
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> Mark McDougall
> <http://retroports.blogspot.com.au>
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