## AdvanceMAME Build Notes

This file contains the instructions to build the Advance programs from the source archives.

## 1 Build

To build the Advance programs you need to have installed the development tools.

What to install depends on your system, but in general you need the GCC compiler, and the SDL library.

For Ubuntu run:

    $ sudo apt-get update
    $ sudo apt-get install build-essential git autoconf automake libsdl2-dev libasound2-dev libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev libexpat1-dev libslang2-dev libncurses5-dev

For Raspbian run:

    $ sudo apt-get update
    $ sudo apt-get install git autoconf automake libsdl2-dev libasound2-dev libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev libexpat1-dev libslang2-dev libncurses5-dev

Note that in Raspbian it's highly recommended to run the Advance programs outside the X Window graphics environment to get the best performance. For this reason the SDL library "libsdl2-dev" is not required, and you can omit it if you like.

At this point you can get the source code from the http://www.advancemame.it site, and untar it with:

    $ tar xf advancemame-*.tar.gz
    $ cd advancemame-*

or alternatively you can get it directly with git:

    $ git clone https://github.com/amadvance/advancemame.git
    $ cd advancemame
    $ sh autogen.sh

Now you can build and install using the typical sequence of commands:

| $ ./configure $ make -j3 $ sudo make install

The -j3 option uses three parallel processes, speeding up the build.

The build process may be long, up to 45 minutes on a Raspberry Pi 3, or 25 on Raspberry Pi 4.

No option is generally required. You can get the complete configure option list with the `./configure --help' command.

The default installation prefix is /usr/local. You can change it with the `--prefix=' option.

The default host configuration directory is /usr/local/etc. You can change it with the `--sysconfdir=' option. Please note that instead of /usr/etc is always used /etc.

The configure script automatically detects all the available libraries and the optimization flags. You can use the --with-sdl-prefix and --with-sdl2-prefix option to search for the SDL and SDL2 libraries in a specific location.

The `make install' command installs the binaries and the documentation.

The binaries are installed in $prefix/bin, the program data files in $prefix/share/advance, the documentation in $prefix/share/doc/advance, and the man pages in $prefix/man/man1.

In Mac OS X ensure that the directory $prefix/bin is in the search PATH. Generally /usr/local/bin isn't.

After the installation, you can check if AdvanceMAME starts with:

    $ advmame robby

and AdvanceMESS with:

    $ advmess ti99_4a

## 2 Copyright

This file is Copyright (C) 2003 - 2017 Andrea Mazzoleni.