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I have a problem to compile MAME as debug build (release build is totally fine). The compiling itself actually works, but I get an .exe file that is over 2.5 GB large and cannot be opened.

I compile with the official MAME Build Tools from GitHub and using the following command line.


I also tried to compile a debug build with Visual Studio and got a similar result. Furthermore no .pdb file is generated.


The last version of MAME I could compile as debug build with .pdb file was 0.159, where the .exe file was around 180 MB and the .pdb filearound 400 MB, which could be debugged perfectly well with Visual Studio.

Anyway, the .pdb file would be really nice to have, but the oversized .exe file is completely useless.

I hope someone can give me an advice how to fix this.

Use a subtarget instead of a full build. You're probably most concerned with arcade games, so use SUBTARGET=arcade when invoking make.

Thanks for the hint. The .exe file is still oversized (1.6 GB), but can now be opened.

To be more precise, it was UME not MAME.

Use this STRIP_SYMBOLS=1 with SYMBOLS=1. It will shrink the exe size down into the 100mb or over.

STRIP_SYMBOLS also makes the result unable to be debugged, which is kind of important for Jezze

That sucks

I've had the compilation of MAME stopped since one or two major revisions (now again with 0.168) on lucky8.lay without any error message, just hanging on make.exe.

This is with latest, updated official build tools on Windows 10 x64, clean build from current GIT.

It's always lucky8.lay, on different machines.

I'm having trouble compiling MAME from git on Ubuntu using the following commandline:


Part way through I get the following:

The error occured prior to that line, look up through the log for something failing and copy/paste that part.

Turns out I was missing the libsdl2-ttf-dev package. Oops.