SDL Supported Platforms

From MAMEDEV Wiki

Here are downloads for MAME/MESS on non-Windows platforms including Mac OS X, Linux, and BSD family operating systems.

Technical support for MAME on non-Windows platforms and for MESS on all platforms is available on the bannister.org forums.

Source code download

The following links are for source code, either pre-packaged by MAMEDev or you can simply clone/fork us on Github to follow the team's progress in real-time. Download these if you'd like to learn to develop for MAME/MESS, or if you know how to build the emulator and just want to follow along quickly.

MAME releases (source and Windows binaries) http://mamedev.org/release.html
MAME source code repository on GitHub https://github.com/mamedev/mame

Instructions for building MAME on several platforms, including macOS and some popular Linux distributions, are available here.

Regularly Updated binaries and packages (usually within a few versions of baseline)

These links are for binaries and/or distribution packages for Mac OS X, the BSD family, and a variety of popular Linux distributions. Download these if you can't or don't wish to build MAME and don't mind waiting for the next release date to see progress. Please Note: In all source release versions starting with 0.162, MAME is a binary which consists the entirety of source (including the former MESS project). As a result, MESS links here will likely only be available up to 0.161 with anything beyond expected to be obtained at the MAME link. For the time being, old MESS can be compiled using "SUBTARGET=mess" while older MAME (arcade only) can be made with "SUBTARGET=arcade". Support for these older styles of binaries will be discontinued in the near future.

Target OS/Platform Build Target URL
Apple macOS Intel MAME https://sdlmame.lngn.net , https://ports.macports.org/port/mame/summary
Arch Linux MAME https://www.archlinux.de/packages/community/x86_64/mame , https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mame-git/
Debian MAME http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mame
Fedora MAME https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/mame/mame/
FreeBSD MAME https://www.freshports.org/emulators/mame/ , https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/emulators/mame/
FreeBSD MESS https://www.freshports.org/emulators/mess/ , https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/emulators/mess/
General Linux Package Search MAME https://pkgs.org/download/mame , https://pkgs.org/download/sdlmame
Gentoo/Funtoo Linux MAME/MESS http://gpo.zugaina.org/games-emulation/sdlmame
Mageia MAME https://madb.mageia.org/package/show/name/mame/release/cauldron/application/0
NetBSD MAME http://pkgsrc.se/emulators/mame , https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/emulators/mame/README.html
OpenBSD MAME http://openports.se/emulators/mame
OpenMandriva SDLMAME https://pkgs.org/download/sdlmame , https://abf.openmandriva.org/openmandriva/sdlmame/build_lists
OpenSUSE MAME/MESS https://software.opensuse.org/package/mame and https://software.opensuse.org/package/mame-mess
Raspbian MAME https://stickfreaks.com/mame/
Slackware MAME/MESS http://sourceforge.net/projects/mameforslack
Solus MAME https://pkgs.org/download/mame
Ubuntu MAME http://sdlmame.wallyweek.org/repository/
Void Linux MAME https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/tree/master/srcpkgs/mame

Discontinued/Irregularly Updated

Target OS/Platform Build Target URL
Apple Macintosh OS X PowerPC (10.5) SDLMAME https://www.mediafire.com/folder/07r0cvcq1i39g/OSX_PPC_10.5_%28SDL2%29
CentOS SDLMAME http://repoforge.org/use/ - Follow directions at "Using RepoForge" then choose desired package
Debian MESS http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mess
General Linux Package Search MESS/SDLMESS https://pkgs.org/download/mess , https://pkgs.org/download/sdlmess
Google Native Client MAME https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kcfbijoldkenmemnbbkjnpdhnijgahck , http://web.archive.org/web/20120603114635/https://developers.google.com/native-client/community/porting/MAME
NetBSD MESS http://pkgsrc.se/emulators/mess
OpenBSD SDLMAME http://openports.se/emulators/sdlmame
OpenBSD SDLMESS http://openports.se/emulators/sdlmess
OpenMandriva SDLMESS https://pkgs.org/download/sdlmess
OS/2 Warp SDLMAME https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/?search=sdlmame
PCLinuxOS SDLMAME https://pkgs.org/download/sdlmame
PCLinuxOS MESS/SDLMESS https://pkgs.org/download/mess , https://pkgs.org/download/sdlmame
ROSA SDLMESS https://pkgs.org/download/sdlmess
Ubuntu MESS https://pkgs.org/download/mess
YellowDogLinux 6.2 / Playstation 3 SDLMAME https://emulationrealm.net/downloads/file/1509-sdlmame-intermediate-ps3
YellowDogLinux 6.2 / Playstation 3 SDLMESS https://emulationrealm.net/downloads/file/1462-sdlmess-ps3

Targets for which MAME/MESS have been known to exist, but have custom OSDs/Interfaces

Target OS/Platform
Android (ARM)
Apple iOS
Microsoft XBOX / XBOX 360 / XBOX One
Nintendo Wii (PowerPC) / Wii U / Switch