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23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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Too many "MinGW is giving me problems" posts here. Is it much trouble to get Allegro working with it? I downloaded the latest version and it works fine with my stadard C++ programs, but is Allegro hard to get up and running for it? Or is it enough to type -- |
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Todd Cope
Member #998
November 2000
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I followed the instructions in the readme and it worked perfectly for me. No problems. |
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23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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Which readme? Allegro's? -- |
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Todd Cope
Member #998
November 2000
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Yep. I just went step-by-step through the readme.mgw file. |
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Bob
Free Market Evangelist
September 2000
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You should use Mingw 1.01. I just downloaded it, deleted the old Mingw dir (so I can do a fresh install), unzipped, then followed the instructions in allegro/readme.mgw and was able to compile Allegro within 10 minutes. -- |
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Bob
Free Market Evangelist
September 2000
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Frankly, most of the Mingw related posts are due to people not reading the instructions, or trying to make Allegro work with DX8 SDK or a very old Mingw version, or an incomplete one. -- |
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23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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I downloaded the latest DX (that'd be 8) and Dev-C++ a few weeks ago. Is the version of MinGW with Dev-C++ good enough, and can I not make Allegro using DX8? Can I even get DX7 anymore? -- |
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Bob
Free Market Evangelist
September 2000
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You can get the DX7 mini-SDK here. I don't know which version DevC comes. Try doind gcc -v in the command prompt to see which version of gcc is being used. -- |
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23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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gcc -v gives me DJGPP stats -- |
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StevenVI
Member #562
July 2000
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Remove your DJGPP directory from the path, and type it in your Dev-C++/bin directory. -Steve __________________________________________________ |
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23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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And what is "The Path"? I ran into the same term trying to get NASM working. -- |
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Bob
Free Market Evangelist
September 2000
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In Windows 95/98 or DOS, open your autoexec.bat file and look at the line: PATH = (something) -- |
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23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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Not really a help. I got MinGW by downloading Dev-C++, and the site says it's version MSCVRT 2.95.2-1. Must I use 1.01, or just not an older verison than that? Hmm ... the Dev-C++ site says it can be used with Cygwin ... I wonder if I can use it for my Dreamcast work ... -- |
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Bob
Free Market Evangelist
September 2000
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Mingw is composed of several parts. The run time library (libc, or msvcrt in Windows) has a particular version number, gcc has another version, as as even another version, etc. Mingw 1.01 is the package of all these different programs. Mingw 1.01 actually comes with gcc 2.95.3-5. -- |
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23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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So am I good? Do I need to download a new MinGW and find a way to combine it with Dev-C++ (I hate running off command prompts, mostly because I can't make that work either)? I asked in my first post "... at what price of time and sanity? " I think I'm getting my answer .... -- |
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Bob
Free Market Evangelist
September 2000
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I think you should update your version of Mingw. I don't know where DevC stores it, but you should be able to overwrite it with the newer build. -- |
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23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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I'll give it a try. Then where do I install that DX 7 SDK? And after all that: -- |
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Bob
Free Market Evangelist
September 2000
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I think it's "fix mingw32" for 3.9.37+. You should unzip the libraries (*.a) in mingw/lib, and the includes (*.h) in mingw/include. -- |
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23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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Alright, I'll go find the latest MinGW and take a shot at installing it into Dev-C++. (crosses fingers) .... -- |
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23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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No dice. I tried overwriting all the MinGW stuff in Dev-C++ with the new stuff, and now it complains that cpp0.exe isn't in C:/Dev-C++/bin/, which it clearly is. Well, it's officially crossed the line of aggrevation, so hell with it. Maybe I can get Dev-C++ to work with Cygwin; that'd make my DC programming easier. -- |
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George Foot
Member #669
September 2000
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I hate integrated environments. |
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23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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Quote: I hate integrated environments. I can't get commands from the DOS prompt to work either. For DJGPP I mean. So no command line, and no IDE. Call me SOL .... -- |
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Bob
Free Market Evangelist
September 2000
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23yrold3yrold: What do you the command line doesn't work? Do you get a "bad command or file name" type of error? If so, then its your path; you need to make it point to the compiler's dirctory (as per the Mingw and DJGPP installation instructions). -- |
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23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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When I installed DJGPP, I added those two lines to my Autoexec.bat. But I got "bad command or file name" last time I tried. But I tried again just now, and it worked OK. Go figure So if I installed the latest MinGW by itself so it ran off the DOS prompt, threw the DX7 libs in mingw/lib, threw the includes in mingw/include, did the fix/make/make, I'd be golden? Would that interfere with DJGPP (would I have to remove those lines from Autoexec.bat, or does mingw use different commands)? And as an added bonus, when I install Cygwin, is that going to provide similar problems? I think all 3 compilers are gcc .... -- |
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Goodbytes
Member #448
June 2000
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Bah. Don't install Cygwin just because you want Dev-C++. Really, I don't knwo what the problem is, I downloaded Dev-C++ and Allegro 3.9.37 and they work together perfectly. Just follow the instructions in readme.mgw... and make sure to really follow them |
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It looks to me horribly like Dev-C++ is getting in the way here. I've found Mingw itself pretty simple to set up, from the readme.mgw instructions. That was a few versions ago, so I don't know if much has changed. I was following the Mingw32-only instructions (there were no Dev-C++ instructions back then I think), so perhaps that's why it worked better.
