Install Allegro 4.4 on Mac OS Mountain Lion 10.8.4

Install Allegro 4.4 on Mac OS Mountain Lion 10.8.4

Mateusnunesbm

Member #15,264

August 2013

I successfully installed Allegro 5 on my mac,the thing is that i need to install Allegro 4.4,i've been trying for a couple of hours but with no luck.

I'm following these steps,but i don't know where i'm failing:

1 - 'git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/alleg/allegro'

2 - 'git checkout 4.4'

3 - 'cd allegro
mkdir build
cd build'

4 - 'cmake -G Xcode -DWANT_FRAMEWORKS=1 - ..
xcodebuild
sudo xcodebuild install'

I following this tutorial,it is for Allegro 5,but as you can see on step 2,i change the version:
http://stefanhendriks.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/getting-started-with-allegro-5-1-on-mac-os-x-10-8-xcode-4-5-and-homebrew/

Can anyone tell some steps to follow,se if a get some lucky!

Arthur Kalliokoski

Second in Command

February 2005

Mateusnunesbm said:

Can anyone tell some steps to follow

Copying and posting the text of any errors or warnings of the above commands would help immensely.

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Trent Gamblin

Member #261

April 2000

I'm pretty sure 4.4 won't compile on Mountain Lion (or even Lion and maybe earlier) unless you build with an older version of the compiler/SDK. The newer SDKs don't have QuickDraw for one thing and 4.4 needs it.

Evert

Member #794

November 2000

I have some Allegro 4 programs that were compiled on older versions of OS X. They don't work properly on my new Mac running Mountain Lion: the display is messed up and the input appears to be slow or otherwise "off". The thing is: it uses APIs that have been deprecated and unsupported for ages.

I never tried compiling Allegro 4 for Mountain Lion, but indications are that even if you did, things would not work properly.

OnlineCop

Member #7,919

October 2006

Sadly, the reason I've stopped using Allegro is that 4.x no longer compiled for me after OS X 10.4. I could still run my 10.4-compiled apps, but couldn't compile new ones. That meant that all my projects that were Allegro 4-based ground to a halt almost immediately.

Now I just lurk these threads occasionally, but can't help with any of the Allegro 5 questions. :'(

Evert

Member #794

November 2000

Now that I have a functional replacement for Allegro 4's GUI I should really finish my "porting an Allegro 4 game to Allegro 5" guide...

The tricky part is that you need to have working (and compilable) code before you start; I ported my game under Snow Leopard (I think, could have been Leopard too). Basically what I did was reduce the dependency on Allegro 4 as much as possible (remove unneeded includes, get rid of Allegro includes for files that only used TRUE/FALSE, get rid of the datafiles), then recompile with Allegro 5 instead of Allegro 4 and one by one eliminate errors due to missing Allegro 4 functions by re-implementing them in Allegro 5. Then once everything compiles again and you can continue with the game you can gradually cleanup the Allegro 4 code until all the compatibility code is gone (I'm not quite there yet, but close).