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js71
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 Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 6:05 pm Post subject: Help................. |
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HOW the hell do I install allegro...? I just got a C++ copiler/interpreter... (DevC++) and I want to install allegro but I can't find out how. It says I have to run the PAK installer and install the allegro PAK file, but there IS no allegro PAK file! I just want to get started with c++/allegro... Help me...
SOMEONE... Like bjorn or povrazor or anyone who knows what I mean....
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DrV
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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You can just download the prebuilt binaries and headers for MingW32, or you can get the source and mostly run fix.bat, followed by make, and that should do it... have no clue what PAK installer is...
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js71
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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Okay. All. I. Want. Is. To. Get. C++. Working. With. Allegro.
-dies-
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DrunkenCoder
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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The PAK installer is the update utility for Dev-C++
just choose about and click "Check for updates"
Or just download the source release run fix.bat type make take a cup o' coffee come back and install the minimal dx stuff also found at the allegro site and you're ready to go
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Jihgfed Pumpkinhead
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 9:41 pm Post subject: Intalling Allegro |
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Download Allegro, if you don't have it. You want the first one on that page, all403.zip. Extract that to its own folder somewhere.
In your new Allegro folder, go to docs\build\mingw32.txt. Follow the instruction in it starting at the section entitled
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==== Setting up Dev-C++ to build Allegro ====
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You can probably skip steps 1, 2, 4, 5 (not 3!), since you've probably already done them.
If you've already done that, or after having done that run into another difficulty, come on back and tell us.
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js71
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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for one thing, there is no section titled "Setting up Dev-C++ to build Allegro", and there is no allegro.cfg file that it mentions I should have.
I'm just about ready to give up, so SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME... I don't know how, but I really need help here.
P.S:
Hey jihgfed, maybe you could get on aim and you explain it to me there.
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BigManJones
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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Download this:
http://www.allegro.cc/files/4.0.3/allegro-4.0.3-mingw.zip
Then
Put the dll in
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
put the include file in:
C:\DevCpp\include (or whatever your file is)
put the libs (.a's) in
C:\DevCpp\lib
When you compile in dev cpp you have to set the options to link to the -lalleg or whichever. Come back here if you have trouble with that.
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Bjorn
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 9:41 am Post subject: |
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| Frog32 wrote: | | for one thing, there is no section titled "Setting up Dev-C++ to build Allegro", and there is no allegro.cfg file that it mentions I should have. |
In the 4.0.3 release, there is. And you don't need allegro.cfg, which isn't even mentioned. Make sure you have downloaded the right file (all403.zip, as Jihgfed mentioned) and just follow the instructions Jihgfed pointed to.
What BigManJones mentioned above is an alternative installation, in which you don't compile Allegro yourself. A drawback is that it's a larger download because it includes precompiled binaries, but it is supposed to be easier to install.
When you have installed Allegro in either of above ways, read http://www.allegro.cc/docs/windows-devc5-use.html for help on how to setup your Dev-C++ project.
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js71
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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Alright, Jihgfed helped me through this on AIM, so no need for help anymore... But thanks anyway.
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