Re: [AL] Graphic Mode

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On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:30:02PM -0200, Rodrigo Freitas wrote:
> Hi....
> I'm building a application, for Linux Mandrake 9.0 using gcc 3.0
> and allegro 4.1.4, that runnnig on console mode, pressing a key,
> it turns in to graphic mode, and when I press some other key,
> it returns to console mode.  When runnig that same application on
> linux graphic mode, bringin it from some terminal, pressing a key,
> it opens a 640x480 window, and when a key is pressed on that window,
> it has to close and return to shell.  But it doesn't, when I press
> a key on the graphic window from my program, it stay on the screen,
> and my program keeps running normaly on the terminal...

Your code is correct, unluckily Allegro decides to keep the window
open. While this has never been a problem for graphic applications
which end when they close the graphic screen, I understand that you
feel this as a bug, or just wrong behaviour.  Feel free to patch
this behaviour if you need to, code or documentation, whichever
you prefer.
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> tests\win\dibgrab.c:
> ilink32 -x -q -Gn -aa -Tpe c0w32
> obj\bcc32\alleg\dibgrab.obj,tests\win\dibgrab.e
> xe,,lib\bcc32\alleg.lib cw32 import32
> Fatal: Unable to open file 'C0W32.OBJ'
> make.exe: *** [tests/win/dibgrab.exe] Error 2

Your BCC is not properly configured. In particular, you should have two=20
configuration files, named bcc32.cfg and ilink32.cfg, in the /bin directo=
ry=20
of your BCC tree. See the documentation of the compiler.

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Eric Botcazou
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I had this exact problem with MinGW, MSVC, as well as DJGPP.  I even
completely deleted the /djgpp and /allegro directories and
re-unzipped them, tried 'make' again...  It still crashed with a
va_list error.  And then one morning, I woke up with an idea, that
worked beautifully.  Maybe it helps you:

I had several things SET, such as the following:
SET MINGDIR=D:\MINGW
SET MSVCDIR=D:\PROGRA~1\...\MSVC\BIN
SET RSXNTDJ=D:\DJGPP\RSXNTDJ\BIN
SET DGJPP=D:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV
SET INCLUDE=D:\PROGRA~1\...\INCLUDE;D:\PROGRA~1\...\STUDIO\INCLUDE
SET C_INCLUDE_PATH=D:\DJGPP\RSXNTDJ\INCLUDE
SET LIB=...
SET DEBUGMODE=1
SET PROFILEMODE=1

as well as having the %MSVCDIR%, %MINGW%, and %DJGPP% all in my path.
 (I put the DJGPP path before MINGW whenever I used MinGW, or
switched them whenever I used DJGPP, but the others were still on the
path.)
When an old Allegro (4.02) didn't even compile any more without
problems from a fresh re-unzip, I knew something was up.  So I took
out EVERYTHING, including the LIB=, DEBUGMODE=,  and PROFILEMODE= and
ran 'make'.  I also removed everything but the single compiler (three
of the four: DJGPP, MINGW, RSXNTDJ and MSVC) from my path
It worked without a single problem.  I then added only the settings
that the others needed and removed anything remotely related to
DJGPP, and MinGW works, RSXNTDJ works, etc.

See if that helps at all.  Doing that got rid of all my va_list
problems (I'm hoping I can now install and check out the 4.15 WIPs to
see if I can 'not' have problems there, too).

--- aj <aj...@oi...> wrote:
> i get 'va_list'  incompatibility errors..
> allegro's FAQ says to patch gcc and re-build it.
> 
> surely there is a patched build of djgpp somewhere on the net...
> does anyone know where ?
> 
> aj.

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On November 26, 2002 05:16 pm, Steven Fullmer wrote:
> I had this exact problem with MinGW, MSVC, as well as DJGPP.  I even
> completely deleted the /djgpp and /allegro directories and
> re-unzipped them, tried 'make' again...  It still crashed with a
> va_list error.  And then one morning, I woke up with an idea, that
> worked beautifully.  Maybe it helps you:
>
> I had several things SET, such as the following:
> SET MINGDIR=D:\MINGW
> SET MSVCDIR=D:\PROGRA~1\...\MSVC\BIN
> SET RSXNTDJ=D:\DJGPP\RSXNTDJ\BIN
> SET DGJPP=D:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV
> SET INCLUDE=D:\PROGRA~1\...\INCLUDE;D:\PROGRA~1\...\STUDIO\INCLUDE
> SET C_INCLUDE_PATH=D:\DJGPP\RSXNTDJ\INCLUDE
> SET LIB=...
> SET DEBUGMODE=1
> SET PROFILEMODE=1
>
> as well as having the %MSVCDIR%, %MINGW%, and %DJGPP% all in my path.
>  (I put the DJGPP path before MINGW whenever I used MinGW, or
> switched them whenever I used DJGPP, but the others were still on the
> path.)
> When an old Allegro (4.02) didn't even compile any more without
> problems from a fresh re-unzip, I knew something was up.  So I took
> out EVERYTHING, including the LIB=, DEBUGMODE=,  and PROFILEMODE= and
> ran 'make'.  I also removed everything but the single compiler (three
> of the four: DJGPP, MINGW, RSXNTDJ and MSVC) from my path
> It worked without a single problem.  I then added only the settings
> that the others needed and removed anything remotely related to
> DJGPP, and MinGW works, RSXNTDJ works, etc.
>
> See if that helps at all.  Doing that got rid of all my va_list
> problems (I'm hoping I can now install and check out the 4.15 WIPs to
> see if I can 'not' have problems there, too).

I suggest this method as well, with a twist :) (which I know other people 
use...) You make a batch file for each compiler (ming, djgpp, etc), then 
create a link to command.com (one for each compiler) that has the 'batchfile' 
option set to the right batch file. then when you exec that link it pops up a 
dos box ready to do stuff with _just_ one compiler. Heck It doesn't even have 
to be pointed at command.com, for MSVC you'd probably want to point it at the 
msvc .exe, or for dev-c++ youd point it at the IDE :)

Just a thought.

-- 
Thomas Fjellstrom
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http://strangesoft.net
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my system... win2k, djgpp 2.04(alpha).

from the FAQ. DOS section:

Compile errors scroll off the screen too quickly for me to read them!
GNU tools write their error messages to the error stream, stderr. 
Unfortunately command.com is too stupid to know how to redirect this, but 
fortunately DJ was smart enough to work around that, so you can use his 
redir program to capture the output messages, for example
          redir -eo make > logfile.txt

i tried this, and i got the message..
--snip from console--
logfile.txt         38  26-11-02  13:56:36

D:\temp\ALLEGR~1\allegro>type logfile.txt
The Vdm Redirector is already loaded

now what do i do ?