Visual Studio is my comfort zone, but I'm flexible. ... switching to plan B - mingw command shell build... any clue what I'm missing here: $ make GCC 14.1.0 detected Precompiling src/emu/emu.h... make[2]: *** [precompile.make:317: ../../../../mingw-gcc/obj/x64/Release/emu.h.gch] Error 1 make[1]: ***...

Thanks for that @mhoes. Yes, I was able to decipher the relevant sections of that in order to get to the point where I have the failed build in VS2019. I suppose I can try the mingw command line build, but I can't imagine the missing dependency will magically appear. Nevertheless, I'll report back o...

I want to debug mame on a PC to get familiar with how the USB controller mapping for unique IDs works. Keep in mind I have decades of experience as a C/C++ windows desktop developer - just a n00b with mame and open source projects in general. (although I recently contributed to the RespeQt project, ...