Reading the driver.c

[Dooz]

I apologize if this has already been answered, but I would like to read through the driver.c file in MAME, but I have no idea how to find it. From what I've been reading, I would need to compile MAME, but I'm not sure. Could someone please help me out?

[Agozer]

Well, have you looked through MAME's source?

[Gryph]

Well you don't need to compile it to read the source. Just use a text editor and open the.c files in that.

[Dooz]

Part of the problem is that I don't know how to look through MAME's source.

 

I really have no clue what I'm doing, as if it wasn't already blatently obvious.

[Gryph]

Well what exactly are you trying to find?

[Weirdy]

there's a really good 3 step tutorial that comes with MAME32 Plus

 

but I'll be brief

 

.c files are files that contain code written in the C programming language, which is why it may all look strange

 

if you want to know what a lot of that stuff actually means, I recomment you read up on the C language

[Dooz]

I more or less just want to look through the code, to see exactly what makes up the drivers. Mostly just curiosity.

 

My problem is that I don't know how to find the driver.c, which is in MAME's source. But I don't know what to do so that I can look through the source.

 

I did a little searching, and would I perform the first few steps in this tutorial so that I can look through MAME's source? http://www.mameworld.net/mrdo/compile.html

 

Edit: Okay, I'm a fool. I understand what I need to do now. I didn't realize the source was downloadable on mame.net

Edited July 19, 2005 by Dooz

[Weirdy]

btw, if you're going to add games, you must modify the driver.c file, then in the drivers/ directory you have to edit the file that correspons to the game you added, and you might even have to edit the corresponding file in the machine/ directory

[Dooz]

Yeah, I'd like to do that eventually, but I've first got to figure out what the hell I'm doing, then maybe I'll try adding games.