> Hi, Why is the default build of MAME in debug mode? The executable is 260Mb and a
> 138Mb SYM file which I think is ridiculous. I understand it is Open Source but I do
> not have Visual Studio 2017 to rebuild it from source.
>
> As a programmer myself the latest version of Visual Studio I have Visual Studio 2010.
The default build of MAME is definitively not built in debug mode. The executable really is that large because it really contains that much code.
The good news is, you can't build MAME with Visual Studio 2017, either. If you must use Visual Studio, the only version that works with it due to the sheer amount of template and C++1x magic is 2019. The even better news, though, is that Visual Studio has had a "Community Edition" available for the better part of a decade now, which is free (as in beer). As a programmer yourself, I'm surprised you didn't know.
That having been said, MAME isn't even officially built with Visual Studio. It uses MinGW for Windows builds. This information can be found here: https://www.mamedev.org/tools/
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