Well, I'm going to try my best, but my info is not 100% accurate. And my English sucks.

There is no .exe because Allegro does nothing by itself, instead it has a bunch of little functions, variables and struts to perform little task that together form an actual application/game.

We use to think about of program as "something" that needs to show something in our screen, but not always is that way, in fact the ~80% of processing doesn't have anything to do with your screen. What I'm trying to say is that your program could be called from another program without human intervention. Have ever wonder why do you use to type: `int main(int argc, char **argv)` in the main function?. As you can see your main function, where everything starts, it's just a simple function... Another function which is called by the OS. When you run your application/game, you have the possibility to send some arguments to it, just the same as when you call a function from your program. Obviously it's not exactly the same because the main function is a "special" function, that the OS call it knowing that it's going to start an application. But as you can see you can retrieve arguments and at the end return something, just as you do with a normal functions.

Obviously normally you just press double click on an program, and it opens, so you can't actually send anything to the program that way. But if you run your game from the command line, you can indeed send some parameter to your program, without needing to get input from the user inside your app.

so int argc is the amount of parameter you have passed to your program and `char **argv` it's an array which contains the actual information. You can read about it on the web, some of the Allegro examples uses these techniques.

So what is Allegro then?, well, Allegro it's like an executable that you program is opening and closing constantly. For example you call al_draw_bitmap(), you can think of it like a little program, that your program opens and do something, but it's not the main application, even when it does a lot of thing, it's not the main application, the main application is that from where you're calling those functions, and for that reason you application ends with .exe and allegro with .dll or when statically linked the content is already inside your game.

At all man... I don't know what is your problem, you must be really noob, and you're probably trying to run before knowing how to walk.

I don't understand very well the way Edgar is telling you how to do it now, so I can't help you anymore.

Well guys thanks for everything but this is were I'm stopping before I drag this forum on any longer. I have done everything exactly as the instructions say and I cant get anything to work. I am going to try and see if my college professor can get this thing up and running and I let you guys know what steps he took if he can figure it out or what I was doing wrong.

Dude, it's not that complicated. COPY THE DLL into your program's folder. I told you before, dependency walker will tell you exactly which dlls a program expects to have available at runtime.

Wait a minute... "allegro-5.0.5-monolith-md.dll"??? Are you trying now the monolith version?.

Now seeing your previous post:

allegro_acodec-5.0.5-md.dll
allegro_audio-5.0.5-md.dll
allegro_color-5.0.5-md.dll
allegro_dialog-5.0.5-md.dll
allegro_font-5.0.5-md.dll
allegro_image-5.0.5-md.dll
allegro_memfile-5.0.5-md.dll
allegro_physfs-5.0.5-md.dll
allegro_primitives-5.0.5-md.dll
allegro_ttf-5.0.5-md.dll
allegro-5.0.5-md.dll
allegro-5.0.5-monolith-md.dll <-- WTF

Aren't you, by chance, linking to the monolith version of Allegro too?, because if you're linking to all those libraries plus the monolith is not right. Read about it