Hi there,

I'm a Linux user who is looking to distribute a Windows version of my KrampusHack 2016 game. Thanks to some friendly replies on my last thread, I was able to make a static distribution for Linux. Now I want to do the same for Windows.

The thing is though, I haven't the faintest idea how to do that on Windows. Which compiler and IDE would you recommend using to compile Allegro 5 games on Windows? And how would I statically link it? I haven't used Allegro with Windows in a LONG time.

Thank you for your time.

Edit
I downloaded and installed Code::Blocks with MinGW (from the Code::Blocks site). I also downloaded the "MinGW 4.7.0" file for Allegro 5 from the files page of this site.

I understand that I need to set the search directory in Code::Blocks to the include directory from the Allegro download. That's fine. What about the libraries to link? What's the difference between md and mt files?

Edit #2
I'm fairly certain md is for dynamic and mt for static linking. I managed to compile a test program dynamically and it worked! I will now attempt to dynamically compile my game, then if that works, I will give statically linking it a go.

So far, yep!

I've run into a bit of a snag though. Firstly, the compiler doesn't seem to know what std::stoi is:

No problem though; I got around this by using std::stol instead. But when I run the program, I get the following error:

There are no syntax errors or any errors of any kind when compiling, so I'm not sure what to make of this run-time error. Currently, I'm only linking with liballegro-5.0.10-monolith-mt-debug.a. Should I be using something else? Any ideas what could cause this error?

Edit
Linking instead with liballegro-5.0.10-monolith-md.a results in the following error instead:

Edit #2
Using liballegro-5.0.10-monolith-md-debug.a results in the same as listed in edit #1.

Edit #3
Linking with liballegro-5.0.10-monolith-mt.a works!

Edit #4
The monolith files contain all of the addons, correct? So if I link against that, I won't need to link them all individually?

Thanks for writing, Edgar. I decided to dynamically link my game instead, and package the dlls.

That's kind of sad, actually.

In Linux, I keep up to date by cloning Allegro from GitHub and building it myself. But it's good to know there are recent pre-built binaries on Windows.