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Dizzy Egg
Member #10,824
March 2009
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Hello I am looking to upgrade from 4.2 to 4.9. In the old 4.2 documentation, there was a section on 'build' that gave a very full description on what to download and how to install allegro with various compilers. I always used to use Mingw and dev-cpp and this was documented fully. However I'm struggling to find a similar for 4.9. There seems to be plenty of documentation on the API itself, but not on what to download and how to setup a compiler/ide etc... ...am I just being blind? Ultimately I would like to use dev-cpp and mingw (if possible). Can anyone point me to some help? ---------------------------------------------------- www.soundcloud.com/dont-rob-the-machina (my new songs) |
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Dario ff
Member #10,065
August 2008
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Dizzy Egg said: am I just being blind?
Yep, take a look at readme_a5.txt. Dizzy Egg said: Ultimately I would like to use dev-cpp Dev-C++ is no longer mantained and it's quite troublesome. I'm not saying this because of A5, that IDE causes more problems than it solves. I'd suggest you switch to Code::Blocks if you want to keep MinGW. Dizzy Egg said: I am looking to upgrade from 4.2 to 4.9. Are you aware that it's a totally different API and you'll need to spend some serious time rewriting your code? Or you're just going to start from scratch? In conclusion, you need CMake 2.6 to build Allegro 4.9, and you need the libs mentioned in the "Dependencies" section of the readme_a5.txt. Also, regarding which version to pick up, 4.9.16 is the latest release(though it's said 4.9.17 will be released soon). Or you can pick it up from the SVN. If compiling it yourself is a problem(especially if you lack the dependencies), you can download the binaries from http://www.allegro5.org/. TranslatorHack 2010, a human translation chain in a.cc. |
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Dizzy Egg
Member #10,824
March 2009
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Excellent, thanks Dario. I will be starting from scratch; all of my existing projects are less than 50% complete (as always). ---------------------------------------------------- www.soundcloud.com/dont-rob-the-machina (my new songs) |
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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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You may also want to have a look at http://wiki.allegro.cc/index.php?title=Install_Allegro5_From_SVN. |
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