Hi!

I'm trying to use the new version of Allegro with Microsoft Visual Studio 7.1. I have installed the binary file and am now trying to setup a project correctly using the information here.

When I come to setting up "Dynamically Linking" I have problems with step 2. I don't have any "Configuration Properties" / "C/C++" branch in my tree. <Screenshot>

Hope that this is a common error, or perhaps my install of Visual Studio is broken. Either way, some enlightment would be highly appreciated!

Nope I hadn't, but it helped! Thank you!

I would suggest that it should be added to the instructions. If someone just follows them line by line as I did they will run into the same problem me.

[append - it still doesn't work!]
I thought it would work now that the C / C++ branch turned up, but no sir. When I continue to follow the instructions and get to trying to compile the little example it goes wrong. The example code is:

#include <allegro.h>

int main(void)
{
  allegro_init();
  allegro_message("Hello World");
  return 0;
}
END_OF_MAIN()

I get 2 errors and a lot of warnings, still I have followed the instructions as far as I can tell. My build log: BuildLog.htm

Do you have liballeg (or is that alleg.lib?) in the list of libraries to link with?

I'd advice against using pragma's. They're non-portable. I'd also advice using the normal alleg library instead of the debug alld library, though the latter can be useful to link with if you're having problems.

See step IA3.