[AD] is still active. At least every few days / week there are issues that get discussed.

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It's normal, it doesn't mean he's dead. For example, I always consult the Allegro guide, but I have not asked questions for years.

@amarillion :
wrong thread.

We're pretty short-staffed, it's essentially just me and Elias, and recently Peter Hull has been making great contributions too. The slow rate of development is merely a reflection of that fact.

We don't really use AD for any official planning, that's all mostly on IRC or GitHub.

As for helping users, sadly it's the same manpower problem... if the problem is difficult, like Andrew Gillett is having, latency is expected.

What OS/compiler do you use, Doctor Cop? When we switched wikis we lost a bit of the tutorials for compiling Allegro... easy enough to rewrite them. The only mildly tricky one is MSVC since it has a bit of dependency installation annoyance, but it's far from impossible.

For MSVC I’ve been on and off for about 3 years playing with CMake to try to make a friendly FindAllegro.cmake. But every single period I get my hands wet on this life happens and I loose interest... Last time I tried the VCPKG option seemed the most promising. But still the final part is the FindAllegro module to make it easy as cake.

My main issue this time around was trying to setup flags correctly to support both Static and Dynamic dlls, and selection of either debug or release builds. My CMake-fu doesn’t reach that level yet though...

Ah, nice to hear someone uses them.

You can pick up copies of 526x and the deps and Eagle on my Eagle 0.8 release page.

Allegro is a bit like a sloth these days - slow, but not lazy, alive, and not dead. If you want to accelerate the timetable by contributing patches and Pull Requests, they are welcome.

Why would anyone want to compile things on Windows?... Windows is still used?...

I find the system brutally obsolete and mutilated. Worse than an abandoned public bathroom, all covered in graffiti and years without cleaning.

I started having problems few time after MinGW dropped Windows XP as target. I wasn't able to install it in Windows 7 so it's impossible to compile it by myself. Since then I use a pre-compiled version from a link at liballeg (I don't know if they're Reynaldo's or others). Also I only use 32bit version because I can't find some of the 3rd party DLLs for 64bit (actually I've found them but they're from places suspicious of malware and I'll not take the risk).

Just to let you know.