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Mame-rr doesn't compile at all on Linux because there is some win32 code in it.
As Mame and Lua runs on Linux, I think that Mame-rr should run on Linux too.

The following patch should allow you to compile Mame-rr for Linux. So far it 
has only been tested on Ubuntu 10.10 but should work on other distributions too.
The patch just does the minimum, it disables the features that were using win32 
code and fixes the others.
I tested it with Street Fighter 2 and it runs, albeit slowly.

-First, cd to your source directory and apply the patch with the following 
command:
patch -p0 < mame-rr-linux-target.diff

-Then, download the lua 5.1 archive and decompress it in the directory of your 
choice.  

-Finally, you just need to provide LUA source directory like this :
LUA_SRC_DIR=/your/path/to/lua make

After the patch, Mame-rr should still compiles on Windows(not tested).
I hope it helps.

Functions like `gui_getpixel` index into `XBuf`, but `XBuf` is never assigned. 
I don't see how it could work.

To get screenshots to work, I used `machine->video().save_snapshot(...)`. 
Specifics in attached file.

Apply this patch to compile the latest (r163) version on Linux.
I tested it with Lua 5.1 and gcc version 4.6.1 on a 64 bit Linux Mint.
I only tested mame-rr with sf2-hitboxes.lua and it seems to be working ok.
The patch doesn't support Lua keyboard and mouse functions, I'll try to add it 
in the next version.

to compile:
LUA_SRC_DIR=<path to Lua sources> make

According to certain representatives of MAMEDev, the MAME license requires that 
you release source "on the same terms as the binary", meaning you must offer a 
direct download of the source tree used to compile the binary that you release. 
According to them it can be either a complete source archive or a diff to an 
official mamedev.org release, but merely offering public SVN access is 
insufficient.