I wanted to make games in Dev C++, so I began doing my homework on what kinds
of software I needed. I already have experience with Dev through an
engineering course at my college. Upon doing research, I found that I needed
the Allegro library, which I just downloaded from Sourceforge (5.0.5). I
cannot get Dev C++ to recognize the new library. Was I supposed to copy
certain files from the zip folder into the Dev standard libraries? Or was
there something else that was necessary to add additional libraries into C++?
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The easiest way is to install Allegro from a devpak. Use Tools > Check for
Updates. There is one for version 5.04, which is nearly the latest version.
This will install the files in the directories with the compiler.
The other solution would be to change the Project Options for your project to
use the files you installed from sourceforge.
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I wanted to make games in Dev C++, so I began doing my homework on what kinds
of software I needed. I already have experience with Dev through an
engineering course at my college. Upon doing research, I found that I needed
the Allegro library, which I just downloaded from Sourceforge (5.0.5). I
cannot get Dev C++ to recognize the new library. Was I supposed to copy
certain files from the zip folder into the Dev standard libraries? Or was
there something else that was necessary to add additional libraries into C++?
The easiest way is to install Allegro from a devpak. Use Tools > Check for
Updates. There is one for version 5.04, which is nearly the latest version.
This will install the files in the directories with the compiler.
The other solution would be to change the Project Options for your project to
use the files you installed from sourceforge.
I've tried downloading it the easy way, but it won't connect to the website
where the dev-paks are.
or
There are two sites. The only one that is active is devpaks.org. Change to
this and try again.