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| Installing for MinGw 4.6.2 using binary package |
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gentix
Member #14,246
April 2012
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1) Installed MinGW using mingw-get-inst-20120421.exe, including MSYS from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-inst/mingw-get-inst-20120421/ 2) In the mysys terminal "gcc -v" indicates gcc version 4.6.2, so I downloaded the appropriate binary from here http://www.allegro.cc/files/ 3) Unzipped the binary and copied the three folders to C:\MinGW 4) CD'd to my working directory in the mysys terminal and performed "gcc -o test.exe foo.c -lalleg" returns: allegro.h:no such file or directory 5) OK that's wierd. I look in the MinGW\include folder and sure enoguh, no allegro.h! I guess allegro.h is in include\allegro5 and my compiler isn't looking there.... do I need to copy the contense of allegro5 to include? Shouldn't the installation of these binaries be as simple as copying the files to my MinGW folder? Unfortunately, the page I keep coming back to, this one: http://www.allegro.cc/manual/5/install/windows.html is famously unhelpful for a newbie like me. Thanks for Help! |
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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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Usually it's included like this: #include <allegro5/allegro.h> and same for the other A5 includes. They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
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AMCerasoli
Member #11,955
May 2010
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And what about the wiki?
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gentix
Member #14,246
April 2012
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>>Usually it's included like this: Ah! Thank you. I'm coming over from gcc in linux, so I did not know that. Looks like it's linking with -lalleg now,b ut unfortunately I am now getting unexpected compiler errors... looks like it is not recognising any of the constants GFX_AUTODETECT undeclared as well as all of the KEY's and END_OF_MAIN. Am I still missing something? >And what about the wiki? EDIT: here's what my output looks like now http://i.imgur.com/H3gEg.png |
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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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gentix
Member #14,246
April 2012
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>>Those are for Allegro 4.x, you need to get/use the examples found here[static.allegro.cc] or find the A5 tutorials on the wiki. Ahh well there's one problem solved I think I'm still linking wrong though because I tried to compile one of the examples and it says cannot find -lalleg... I searched through allegro's lib file and sure enough I didn't see anything by the name of liballeg.a either... tried linking to a couple of the other ones, but none of them seemed to do it. What is the corret dynamic link file? |
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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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I hope this is up to date enough to help. They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
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nicse4
Member #14,240
April 2012
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The MinGW .a files are, and correct me if i am wrong, the following filenames: liballegro-5.0.x-monolith-md.a only pick one set of two though, ether mt or md. mt include the dll in the build, md does not, and replace x with whatever version you have(if it is the most recent, it would be 5.0.6). Again, correct me if i am wrong. |
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gentix
Member #14,246
April 2012
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>>I hope this is up to date enough to help. You know what? The first time I looked at that I thought it was really unhelpful. I even said so in my original post. But I think I have learned enough between now and then to understand what it's talking about. Nicse4 I believe you are correct. It appears to build with that. Unfortunately the symantec on this computer is blocking the exe's I compiled from the example folder |
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