> I have been using clrmame for several years and this is the first major problem.
> It gives me an error then if I run it again it runs forever, it ran for 45
> minutes before I stopped it. Obviously there is either an issue with my compile
> or with clrmame. Any help would be appreciated.
>
Did you do a clean compile? I have had no issues with it, but I do know of someone who did. Once they did a clean compile, the problem went away.