> I am sort of interested. What sort of issues? As I dont really follow MESS too > closely. >
MESS was built as a single large .dll with two smaller exe (MESS and MESSUI) which used extensively the .dll. the issue was that this made debugging with GDB basically useless (symbols got basically lost in the .dll passage)
I have never investigated if there was any way to fix it keeping the .dll alive, but since MAME was instead released as two separate exe the maintainer simply switched to compiling two separate exe for MESS too.