[Coco] MAME Compile times on a RPi

[Ron Klein]

Hi Glen,

Great article!  You covered all the right things.  There are a few
additional tweaks I do that are more RPi3 specific, but anyone interested
in running newer versions of MAME on the RPi2 or RPi3 should visit your
page.

Thanks for posting it!!

-Ron


On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Glen Hewlett <glen.hewlett at sympatico.ca>
wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> In the past I actually timed compiling MAME 0.171 on an RPI 2 and it took
> 4 hours and 9 minutes.  If anyone is interested in seeing the details I
> posted all the details here: https://nowhereman999.
> wordpress.com/2016/02/29/compile-mame-0-171-on-a-raspberry-pi-2/ <
> https://nowhereman999.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/compile-mame-0-171-on-a-
> raspberry-pi-2/>
>
> At the time I was also testing out compiling times using different microSD
> cards and there was quite a difference in speed.  I lost my notes about
> which microSD cards were the fastest, but I remember being surprised that
> some labelled with faster read and write times weren’t always the fastest
> for compiling MAME.  It might have had something to do with internal
> buffering on the cards because I remember also doing some direct speed
> tests with the microSD cards and the faster ones were faster in those
> tests, but not when it came to compiling.
>
> Just thought I’d pass the info along….
>
> Cheers,
> Glen
>
> > On Mar 16, 2017, at 6:24 AM, Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 16/03/2017 4:00 AM, Ron Klein wrote:
> >
> >> 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).
> >
> > Obviously this is possible given the right libraries etc (my work
> involves cross-compiling linux libs/apps for an ARM target) but it may be
> easier - at least as a first pass - to compile under QEMU, for example.
> Although I looked at this possibility for my above-mentioned work, I opted
> against going down that path so never tried it myself.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Mark McDougall
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> >
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