hi elias,
with reference to allegro and devc++, did you download the The MingW32
compiler, documentation and utilities or is this not needed if you are using
devc++?
thanks
jag
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elias Pschernig" <Eli...@ao...>
To: <dev...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] setting up allegro
> > hi,
> >
> > i've downloaded allegro. There are instructions and read.me files
> with it
> > but i am confused as to how it should be set up to work with devc++.
> is
> > anyone familiar with allegro and has maybe set their version up with
> dev
> > c++?
>
> Yes - you can use the mingw version of allegro. But it only comes as
> sourcecode. So to use the library, you first have to compile it. There
> should be a file readme.mgw in your allegro directory, it tells you all
> the software you need to download, and what you have to do (you have to
> read carefully because it won't work if you forget anything).
>
> After everything has been compiled and installed, you can set up dev-c++
> to use allegro. To do so, i had to copy the following files:
> from c:\mingw\include\allegro\*.* to c:\dev-c++\include
> from c:\mingw\include\allegro.h to c:\dev-c++\include
> from c:\mingw\lib\liballeg.a to c:\dev-c++\lib
>
> To use allegro in your dev-c++ project, you have to write -lalleg to
> 'further object files or linker options' in the project options. You
> should now be able to just copy any of the example source-codes and
> compile and run them from dev-c++.
>
>
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