Re: [Dev-C++] direct x libs and headers

[Ian C. S. <ic...@st...>]

Hi

Recently, I've been playing with this quite a bit, due to the fact 
that I'm looking to use ALLEGRO for potential project(s).

The method that I strongly advise is to:

1) Get MinGW32 full distribution and install.
2) Get Dev-C++ IDE distribution and install (uncheck the libs option 
in setup).
3) Get the headers (package three of the seperate SDK pack) and 
install these into MinGW32. This step I'm not too sure on, as I still 
currently only have the release of MinGW32, not the snapshot (which 
has all that snazzy multimedia stuff in it).
4) Set up Dev-C++ as instructed (when I installed, I stuck it in 
C:\Program Files\Dev-C++, but I put mingw32 in D:\mingw32\ just to 
keep things simple) for use with a seperate version of MinGW32.
5) If you, like me, are using the release version of MinGW32, copy 
windres.exe (name be slightly different spelling) from C:\Program 
Files\Dev-C++\bin and put that in d:\mingw32\bin (I'm using my 
directories here...)

There should be no problem doing this, as this is *roughly* the 
method I was told by a game developer from the ALLEGRO list. I've 
tweaked it a bit to remove the bits about ALLEGRO, but I'm fairly 
sure that this should work.

Please... if it is confusing, I'd be more than happy to help (it's 
taken me approximately 8 months to get something like this working 
properly... *sigh*)

cheers

Ian

On 21 Sep 00, at 12:46, Paul Vanukoff wrote:

> What is the difference between the official directx libraries and headers
> available from
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/directx
> 
> and the ones available from:
> 
> http://members.fortunecity.com/honglilai/
> 
> Can I use the official SDK from M$?
> 
> --
> Paul Vanukoff