Hello everyone, I've just got allegro working on my m1 mac (big thanks to siegelord) but I'm having issues with the native dialog addon. Here's how I'm compiling, and the errors I'm getting:

edit woops, I didn't link the native dialog header, now I get this:

jagged@jaggeds-Mac-mini snake % gcc snake.c -o snake -lallegro -lallegro_primitives -lallegro_main -lallegro_native_dialog -I /opt/homebrew/Cellar/allegro/5.2.7.0/include -L /opt/homebrew/Cellar/allegro/5.2.7.0/lib

ld: library not found for -lallegro_native_dialog
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

Does anybody know what's going on here? The header is definitely there. Everything else is working great. Thanks in advance.

It's -lallegro_dialog.

Sometimes this whole computer business makes me very weary. Why can't things just work for everyone?

From your paths it looks like your Allegro came from homebrew and homebrew should also have provided the matching database for pkg-config. What does it print out if you run pkg-config --cflags allegro-5 on the command line? (as you probably know pkg-config just prints out the options you should have typed yourself, that's why it's always used in backticks or $( ... ))

Let's take that as a victory!

I didn't know this but I checked - if you $(...) with a non-existent command, zsh prints an error message, substitutes nothing at all and then goes on to run the outer command. So as if you'd typed simply gcc snake.c -o snake.

I think this explains what happened, but it should still have printed "zsh: command not found: pkg-config", maybe you missed it in all the excitement?

David_056: what?