[Coco] Compiling MESS

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on mame website there is a snapshot of the mingw used to compile. unzip it to your mingw folder and set the path the way the site describes. for me it wirjed fine.

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On 2013-01-10, at 4:53 AM, "Kip Koon" <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to compile the unpatched version of MESS 147.4 first to make sure
> I have everything setup properly with the MESS source code before I start
> patching MESS with the serial patch and CF patch.  I'm using GCC 4.7.0, but
> I keep getting an error 1 after just a few sections are compiled.  The
> output in MingW appears as follows.
> 
> 
> 
> root at DS1 ~/mame
> 
> $ make TARGET=mess
> 
> Linking obj/windows/build/file2str.exe.
> 
> G++.exe: error: unrecognized command line option '-municode'
> 
> make: *** [obj/windows/build/file2str.exe] Error 1
> 
> 
> 
> root at DS1 ~/mame
> 
> $
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I had previously compiled mess so the other modules that are already
> compiled of course did not display again.  The version of gcc I'm using is
> shown below.
> 
> 
> 
> root at DS1 ~/mame
> 
> $ gcc -version
> 
> gcc.exe (GCC) 4.7.0
> 
> Copyright C 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> 
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 
> 
> 
> 
> root at DS1 ~/mame
> 
> $
> 
> 
> 
> Any guidance as to what I'm doing wrong is much appreciated.  Thanks in
> advance.  Please excuse the long-winded explanation. J
> 
> 
> 
> Kip
> 
> 
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