Re: [AL] Re: compiling allegro without directx

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Victor wrote:

> The problem is that, according to the manual in "\build\mingw32.txt",=20
> under MinGW the file "dx70_mgw.zip" is needed to compile allegro (some=20
> people prefer "dx80_mgw.zip", which works too). Without that stuff=20
> isn't actually possible to compile allegro, because all that directx=20
> things are included in the compilation, and if they're missing, the=20
> compilation fails.
> =20
> What people are complaining is that should be some way to compile=20
> Allegro in MinGW without all that DirectX stuff.


why ?
whats the point of compiling allegro... a game library, that uses ..er..=20
DirectX as its graphics/input system.
if you want to compile something to please your  compiling fetish, then=20
hello_world.c is easily googleable.
however if you want to compile a game library, try allegro.. it uses=20
DirectX.





> =20
> Victor
> =20
> Death Gauge wrote:
> =20
> What the hell are you two talking about? Allegro isn't dependent on=20
> DirectX at all....well to do the fullscreen drawing on windows.=20
> Allegro is designed so that it can be compiled and used across=20
> Windows, Linux, BeOS, DOS, MacOS, Unix, QNX, etc. Different OSes use=20
> different methods Windows uses *.lib and
> *.a files for the lib along with the *.dll stuff, whereas *nix systems=20
> (which  I use Windows 98, XP, and Linux for my allegro programming)=20
> use *.so files (shared objects). I've been here since August 2001 and=20
> I must say you guys have to be new in order to ask a question as left=20
> fielded as that. Allegro is designed so it is able to run on its own=20
> (no other libs needed).
>
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