[Slackbuilds-users] SBo Mame?

[Doogster]

Honestly, I'd prefer if you just let it use the bundled libraries. At least
by default. Those are the library versions that the MAME devs have tested.

On Thursday, 1 October 2015, B Watson <yalhcru at gmail.com> wrote:

> CCing this to the list, as several people have asked.
>
> On 9/30/15, email.box at tutanota.de <javascript:;> <email.box at tutanota.de
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been told you are the new mantainer for the MAME SBo.
> >
> > Will there be an update soon?
>
> There will be.
>
> The reason I haven't updated it since taking over: they rewrote the
> entire build system in Lua, and included *every* third-party library mame
> uses. So when you compile mame now, it first compiles lua, then uses
> lua scripts to compile its own static versions of things like libpng,
> zlib, libflac, sqlite3...
>
> I was trying to come up with a way to let the new mame build system use
> the system libraries (since most of those libs are already present in
> Slackware, and the rest are on SBo already). But I'm hampered by the
> fact that I don't actually know Lua... so I put it on the backburner
> for a while (for too long, in fact).
>
> However, I think I've given up on that idea. There will be a mame update
> soon, but it'll take 10x as long to compile and you'll get a binary that's
> maybe 2 or 3 times as large as the old one. On the plus side, it'll be
> using exactly the versions of all libraries that it was developed with.
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