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Hi guys, I am hoping the latest MAME (0.201) gets added to the MX 17 repository.

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/releases

I can try rebuilding the Debian Experimental 0.201 version.

Update: this is one of the ones that fails to build in my convenient and faster pbuilder setup, but it did succeed on the first 64-bit build in Virtual Box after a long compile process. Now setting up a 32-bit build.

32-bit builds fail, which I seem to remember they also did years ago, with a "virtual memory exhausted: can not allocate memory" error, even though they are using real memory in Virtual Box. The 0.200 version in Buster also fails the same way. Trying an OBS build to see what happens there: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show ... ports/mame


For now, I'll send up the 64-bit 0.201 builds to the test repo.

Excellent, thanks a LOT Stevo, MX sure is a great distro.
Donated.

Hey there Stevo, I am hoping to see MAME 0.205 update in the repos because of these very cool release infos:

"There are hundreds more Commodore 64 cassettes in the software list now"

https://www.mamedev.org/releases/whatsnew_0205.txt

Debian upstream just has .203, but I see that deb-multimedia has .205, so maybe I can rebuild those sources.

Sounds really great stevo, here is hoping this succeeds :)

Well, I tried getting the newer 0.205 source with a "get-orig-source" in the 0.201 debian/rules file, which worked, but when I tried using the 0.203 debian folder as a template for 0.205, builds failed in pbuilder, sbuild, and Virtual Box with some compiler errors.

Let me see if I can at least build 0.203 before I tackle converting 0.205 from deb-multimedia.

Would it be possible to have Negatron, an intuitive front-end for MAME on the repos as well?

http://babelsoft.net/products/negatron.htm

Have you tried installing and using their deb package to see how it works?

I have not tried it, I am quite new to Linux so I have been trying to keep my MX installs nice and tidy.

Gonna try to install the deb tomorrow and will report back.

Newbie alert.
Installing the Negatron .deb went very smoothly but looks like I cant start it from anywhere (tried typing Negatron on the CLI) and seems that I cant find it on my PC either.

Progress Report: I did get 64-bit mame-0.203 from upstream Debian to build successfully on my system using the "sbuild" schroot build system, since it fails in the pbuilder system we normally use, but still have to see if that'll work for cross-compiling the 32-bit version. I don't even know if I have a 32-bit sbuild set up yet, though "mk-sbuild stretch --arch=i386" did complete successfully, which is supposed to set it up.

I can at least get the 64-bit 0.203 version in the test repo before tackling the 0.205 version again.

Nice progress Stevo, very very much appreciated, thank you very much :)

Raitsa wrote: Fri Jan 04, 2019 9:26 am Newbie alert.
Installing the Negatron .deb went very smoothly but looks like I cant start it from anywhere (tried typing Negatron on the CLI) and seems that I cant find it on my PC either.

Does "negatron" work instead?

Or you can look at a list of the files the deb installed in Synaptic or with "dpkg-query -L negatron" to see if the command appears there.

I have to thank Mame for making me learn how to get sbuild working for 64 and 32-bit, which will help in the future for packages that fail in pbuilder, like PaleMoon, but the 32-bit build of Mame died when it "exhausted virtual memory" there.

Strangely enough, it also died with the same error in a try in 32-bit Virtual Box, though a build shouldn't see any "virtual"memory there. I'll try with a single-threaded build before I give up.

Negatron seems to be installed ok in /opt but I cant seem to be able to start it no matter how I try.
Seems like anything I install manually, will not start...
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Stevo, would the http://babelsoft.net/products/negamame.htm be of any help to you?
0.205-1 is available as NegaMAME.

"Below Linux versions have been compiled with GCC 8.1.1, SDL 2.0.8 and Qt 5.10.1 on Fedora 28 kernel release 4.17.2-200.fc28.x86_64 LSB version core-4.1-amd64."

Some compiling infos also at

http://babelsoft.net/products/negamame.htm#compile

Edit:
Just found the Linux install infos for NegaMAME and Negatron from the author:
http://forum.pleasuredome.org.uk/index. ... ntry293304

It appears that the negamame binaries were compiled against bleeding edge packages such as gcc 8.1, and thus won't work on MX.

After a problem with 0.203, I rebuilt it correctly and the the 64-bit version should be in the test tepo soon. I'm also trying the deb-multimedia rebuild of 0.205, which is set to use a more modern compiler called clang--we have access to several different versions of that. The stock Stretch 3.8 clang errored out, so I modified the build to use clang-4.0 that was added to Stretch for Firefox Quantum builds, and so far it's working in its very long build... If that fails we also have clang-6.0 and clang-7.

Edit: 4.0 gets a compiler error, trying clang-6.0, which is in our main repo.

Nope, 6.0 still fails with this error: Maybe it's some simple fix, but I can't do it...

This Windows compiler got the same error, but I don't think it should happen with pretty recent versions of clang!

http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/sh ... art=1&vc=1

64-bit builds of mame-2.0.6 from the PPA build successfully, so that's on the way to the test repository.

We now have a build of mame 0.217 for MX 17/18/19 in the test repo, and I've just finished the current 0.218 for MX 19, but unless I hear from someone that still wants it updated for MX 17/18, I'm going to call it quits for that release. That's because it now takes even more extra contortions and time to build on that platform--not the least of which is gcc-7 or gcc-8 (which we do have in the test repo).

Thanks Stevo, I love MAME and use it a lot for the family. I have the roms for 0.218 and can't wait to upgrade! (I use MX19)

OK, I just sent it up to Tim. Check repology to see when it makes it into the test repo.