<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" dir="ltr" lang="en"><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>compiling_mess</title> <meta name="generator" content="DokuWiki Darcs --"> <meta name="robots" content="index,follow"> <meta name="date" content="2011-02-19T23:41:04+0100"> <meta name="keywords" content="compiling_mess"> </head> <body> <div class="dokuwiki export"> <h1><a name="compiling_mess" id="compiling_mess">Compiling MESS</a></h1> <div class="level1"> <p> Compiling <acronym title="Multi Emulator Super System">MESS</acronym> is essentially the same process as building <acronym title="Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator">MAME</acronym>, but after the <code>make</code> or <code>mingw32-make</code> command you add <code>TARGET=mess</code>. Read on for step-by-step instructions. </p> <p> Note: the compiler used for <acronym title="Multi Emulator Super System">MESS</acronym> and <acronym title="Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator">MAME</acronym> on Windows has changed starting with version 0.137. You will need to download a new set of build tools if you were previously set up for compiling 0.136. See <a href="http://mess.redump.net/compiling_mess_0136" class="wikilink1" title="compiling_mess_0136">Compiling MESS 0.136</a> for the older instructions. </p> </div> <!-- SECTION "Compiling MESS" [1-485] --> <h2><a name="setting_up_the_source" id="setting_up_the_source">Setting up the source</a></h2> <div class="level2"> <p> <acronym title="Multi Emulator Super System">MESS</acronym> is developed as a patch for the <acronym title="Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator">MAME</acronym> source, so the <acronym title="Multi Emulator Super System">MESS</acronym> source distribution does not include important files like the makefile, which come from <acronym title="Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator">MAME</acronym>. </p> <p> To obtain the complete source from SVN, follow the instructions <a href="http://mess.redump.net/subversion" class="wikilink1" title="subversion">here</a>. </p> <p> Otherwise, <a href="http://mess.redump.net/downloads" class="wikilink1" title="downloads">download the MESS source</a> and the <a href="http://mamedev.org/release.html" class="urlextern" title="http://mamedev.org/release.html" rel="nofollow">MAME source</a> with the same version number. Extract the <acronym title="Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator">MAME</acronym> source into a directory somewhere, then extract the <acronym title="Multi Emulator Super System">MESS</acronym> source overtop of it, overwriting files if prompted. </p> </div> <!-- SECTION "Setting up the source" [486-1027] --> <h2><a name="setting_up_the_build_tools_on_windows" id="setting_up_the_build_tools_on_windows">Setting up the build tools on Windows</a></h2> <div class="level2"> <p> Download the <a href="http://mess.redump.net/build_tools" class="wikilink1" title="build_tools">build tools</a> (or from <a href="http://mamedev.org/tools/" class="urlextern" title="http://mamedev.org/tools/" rel="nofollow">MAMEDev.org</a>) and follow the instructions to install them. To verify your install, open a command line window and try the following: </p> <pre class="code">C:\>gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.4.3 20091223 (prerelease) r155431 Copyright (C) 2009 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.</pre> <p> The output should be the same or similar. If there is an error message like this: </p> <pre class="code">C:\>gcc --version 'gcc' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.</pre> <p> Then your path environment variable is not setup correctly. To fix this temporarily, use the following command: </p> <pre class="code">C:\>path C:\MinGW\mingw64-w32\bin;%path%</pre> <p> (32-bit) </p> <pre class="code">C:\>path C:\MinGW\mingw64-w64\bin;%path%</pre> <p> (64-bit) </p> <p> If you installed the tools into a different directory, change the location appropriately. </p> </div> <!-- SECTION "Setting up the build tools on Windows" [1028-2104] --> <h2><a name="building_mess_on_windows" id="building_mess_on_windows">Building MESS on Windows</a></h2> <div class="level2"> <p> You are now ready to compile <acronym title="Multi Emulator Super System">MESS</acronym>. To do so, change to the directory where you installed the <acronym title="Multi Emulator Super System">MESS</acronym> (and <acronym title="Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator">MAME</acronym>) sources using the <code>cd</code> command and drive letters. For example: </p> <pre class="code">C:\>D: D:\>cd mess D:\mess></pre> <p> To start the build process, type <code>make TARGET=mess</code> </p> <pre class="code">D:\mess>make TARGET=mess mkdir.exe -p obj/windows/mess mkdir.exe -p obj/windows/mess/build mkdir.exe -p obj/windows/mess/emu/audio mkdir.exe -p obj/windows/mess/emu/cpu mkdir.exe -p obj/windows/mess/emu/cpu/apexc ...</pre> <p> This builds the code mess executables… </p> <p> When it's finished, you will have a new executable, <code>mess.exe</code>. </p> <p> You will need to create <acronym title="Multi Emulator Super System">MESS</acronym>'s config files before running, to do that, type <code>mess -cc</code>: </p> <pre class="code">D:\mess>mess -cc</pre> <p> You have now fully compiled <acronym title="Multi Emulator Super System">MESS</acronym>, have fun! :) </p> <p> To compile the <acronym title="Multi Emulator Super System">MESS</acronym> with its Windows UI, add <code>OSD=winui</code>: </p> <pre class="code">D:\mess>make TARGET=mess OSD=winui</pre> <p> To compile the <acronym title="Multi Emulator Super System">MESS</acronym> tools (chdman, imgtool, etc.), use make all: </p> <pre class="code">D:\mess>make all</pre> <p> If you are building on a windows platform and you want to build the mess.chm help file (you will need to have installed the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00535334-c8a6-452f-9aa0-d597d16580cc&displaylang=en" class="urlextern" title="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00535334-c8a6-452f-9aa0-d597d16580cc&displaylang=en" rel="nofollow">HTML Help Workshop</a>), type: </p> <pre class="code">D:\mess>make mess.chm TARGET=mess</pre> <p> To compile a symbols-enabled version for backtracing add <code>SYMBOLS=1</code>: </p> <pre class="code">D:\mess>make TARGET=mess SYMBOLS=1</pre> </div> <!-- SECTION "Building MESS on Windows" [2105-3585] --> <h2><a name="building_mess_on_nix" id="building_mess_on_nix">Building MESS on *nix</a></h2> <div class="level2"> <p> Once you've <a href="#setting_up_the_source" title="compiling_mess ↵" class="wikilink1">set up the source</a>, building <acronym title="Multi Emulator Super System">MESS</acronym> on Linux or other UNIX-based systems is simple (assuming you have the appropriate packages installed for make, gcc, etc.): </p> <pre class="code">$ make TARGET=mess</pre> <p> To compile the <acronym title="Multi Emulator Super System">MESS</acronym> tools (chdman, imgtool, etc.), add <code>tools</code>: </p> <pre class="code">$ make TARGET=mess tools</pre> <p> <acronym title="Multi Emulator Super System">MESS</acronym> does not provide a 'make install' target at this time; binaries are placed in the top-level <acronym title="Multi Emulator Super System">MESS</acronym> directory. </p> </div> <!-- SECTION "Building MESS on *nix" [3586-4073] --> <h2><a name="see_also" id="see_also">See also</a></h2> <div class="level2"> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="http://mamedev.org/devwiki/index.php/Building_MAME_using_Microsoft_Visual_Studio_compilers" class="urlextern" title="http://mamedev.org/devwiki/index.php/Building_MAME_using_Microsoft_Visual_Studio_compilers" rel="nofollow">Building MAME using Microsoft Visual Studio compilers</a></div> </li> </ul> </div> <!-- SECTION "See also" [4074-] --></div> </body></html>
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