Setting Up The Compiler

You now need to find the files on your desktop or wherever you browser downloads them to. You should have...

Get yourself a copy of WinRAR or equivalent so you can extract the files.

1. Installing MingW

Double click the mingw-mame-20070810.exe self extracting archive and in the new window type c:\mingw. Like this...

This will create the mingw folder on your C: drive. You could extract it elsewhere but it will over complicate things later on especially if you put it somewhere like your desktop. The reason this is because you have to set a path to mingw in a file and c:\mingw is far more easier than c:\users\username\desktop\mingw. See what I mean?

2. DirectX Extensions

Right click the dx8_mgw.zip file and select "Extract Files...". In the new dialog box type c:\mingw. You should see this

WinRAR will ask you whether to overwrite some file answer "Yes To All".

3. MAME Source Files

Double click the mamexxxxs.zip (xxxx is the version number) file you've downloaded and WinRAR will open up showing a file called mame.zip. The next step is to extract this file to your desktop by dragging it over and empty space. Now right click the mame.zip file, select "Extract Files..." and type c:\mamesrc in the dialog box like this...

Press enter and the files will extract. This takes a few moments.

4. Compile Extras

Right click the compile_extras.zip and select "Extract File..." In the dialog box type c:\mamesrc and press enter like this...

5. MameUI Source

Double click the icon and save the folder wherever you want. It creates a folder called MameUIs. This is the contents...

Open the c:\mamesrc folder like this...

Copy the mameui.mak file into this folder. Now open the src folder and drag and drop the winui folder over a folder called osd. This will copy the winui folder into the c:\mamesrc\src\osd folder. The folder structure should be like this...

6. MameUI Extras

Right click the mameui_extras.zip file and select "Extract Files...". In the dialog box type c:\mingw like this...

Press enter and overwrite any files or folders it asks you to. What it is doing is adding the ability for you to compile MameUI's help file.

7. MameUI compiler extras.

Right click the compileui_extras.zip file and select "Extract Files...". In the dialog box type c:\mamesrc like this...

Whatit will do is add the really useful batch files to your mamecrs folder.

What you should have!

In your c:\mamesrc folder you should have...

In your c:\mingw folder you should have...

If your folders are right then you can move onto the next page.