Re: [AL] question about dll's and lightning

[aj <aj...@oi...>]

At 09:43 AM 30/05/2003 +0200, you wrote:
> > The first is where to find allegro dll's or how to produce them. I use
> > borland's free commandolinetools 5.5 (windows 98) with allegro but had to
> > search relatively long on the net to find an appropriate dll (alleg41.dll)
> > and was able to compile and run my programs. What I didn't find at all
> > were the debugging and profiling dll's, how can I make / get them?
>
>Yes, you're right. There is no DLLs package for the 4.1.x series on the
>Allegro site. The rationale is that it is an unstable development series so
>we would rather not have it used by applications. So we only provide the
>sources, but Borland C++ can't build the DLLs from the sources for the time
>being...
>
>What do others think? Should we provide the DLLs for the unstable series too?



NO....  i think the rationale makes sence...  we  _dont_ want  "regular" 
users  having troubles with allegro.
anyone that really must have them can build them, and then take some 
responsibilty when things _could_ go wrong.