[Coco] Fwd: MAME Compile times on a RPi

[Ron Klein]

Hi Mathieu,

Yes, it certainly may.

Erik Gavriluk has his own fork of MAME that only compiles support it for
our beloved Tandy / Dragon devices.  You can get it here:

https://github.com/milliluk/mame

-Ron


On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
wrote:

>
> Could it also save a lot of time to configure the build so that it does
> not compile non-CoCo emulators ? I mean something in which only "mess coco"
> and "mess coco3" will work, for example.
>
> Le 2017-03-15 à 12:00:00, Ron Klein a écrit :
>
> Compiling MAME on a RPi3 takes quite some some time (3 to 6 hours)
>> depending on compiler directives.  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).
>>
>> For those who want to get the latest MAME up and running quickly under
>> Raspbian, there's a nice way to do it from this tutorial:
>>
>> http://choccyhobnob.com/tutorials/compiling-mame-on-raspberry-pi/
>>
>>
>> If you update the latest Raspbian with the GCC 6.xx compiler and add the
>> SDL2 libraries, you can download precompiled versions of MAME from this
>> site as well:
>>
>> http://choccyhobnob.com/software/mame/
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 11:00 AM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 7:31 AM, Ron Klein <ron at kdomain.org> wrote:
>>> > Only looking for a good base to start with.  I'm hoping other's will
>>> chime
>>> > in with suggestions, etc..  We will need a way to distribute and
>>> provide
>>> > some initial documentation.
>>>
>>> Can MAME be compiled on a fast PC and then transfered to the RPi?
>>>
>>> If not, how long does it take to compile MAME on a RPi?
>>>
>>
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