MAMEWorld Forums - Programming

> > If you are referring to C:\Users\username\ then there are no such folder or files.
> > I've created the folder but still no luck.
>
> No, not your Windows profile directory. You need to work out where the MSYS2
> environment has put your MinGW home directory that appears as /home/username in the
> MSYS2 environment and check permissions on that.

Can confirm same thing happened to me last night.

When downloading the "easy package" from here:

https://www.mamedev.org/tools/

A directory C:\msys64\home\THENGAMES is created, but a directory C:\msys64\home\%username% is not. If I copy the THENGAMES folder, then rename it to my username, I am able to continue with the step "git config --global core.autocrlf true"

But... updating the tools is also broken, due to MSYS2 issue reported here for 6/29:

https://www.msys2.org/news/

I was able to download the new keys and apply, but kept getting the same "marginal trust error"

I gave up on using the easy package at that point, and followed your instructions here:

https://docs.mamedev.org/initialsetup/compilingmame.html#using-a-standard-msys2-installation

After the initial learning curve of using some tools I hadn't used before, I successfully finished compiling a version last night.

Side question:

When using command from the easy package to download source... "git clone https://github.com/mamedev/mame.git" ... source is downloaded to C:\msys64\src\mame

When using same command from the "hard[?]" version of tools... source is downloaded to C:\msys64\home\%username%\mame.

Which is correct?

(Might be time to update the "easy package tools?").

RELAX and just have fun. Remember, it's all about the games.