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Bob Keane
Member #7,342
June 2006
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I had to reinstall my laptop due to performance and my backup of MINGW got corrupted. When I download from this site, the download box pops up giving me the option to open with Applications\7zG.exe or save the file. I tried saving but the file show as a 7z file. If I try unpacking it, the option to unpack is not there. Does anyone have a more reliable source to download the file, or should I keep trying? I've been banging my head against this wall since Saturday. By reading this sig, I, the reader, agree to render my soul to Bob Keane. I, the reader, understand this is a legally binding contract and freely render my soul. |
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Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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I suggest you use a more modern version of MinGW than vanilla MinGW from sourceforge. Try the MinGW-W64 project. There are recent versions available on sourceforge. You can also get cutting edge gcc on winlibs.com . My Website! | EAGLE GUI Library Demos | My Deviant Art Gallery | Spiraloid Preview | A4 FontMaker | Skyline! (Missile Defense) Eagle and Allegro 5 binaries | Older Allegro 4 and 5 binaries | Allegro 5 compile guide |
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Bob Keane
Member #7,342
June 2006
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I tried downloading the mingw i686 version 8.10 rev 7 with posix and dwarf files but had the problem. But while you are reading the thread Edgar, that is the correct compiler for using your Allegro binaries, correct? By reading this sig, I, the reader, agree to render my soul to Bob Keane. I, the reader, understand this is a legally binding contract and freely render my soul. |
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Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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My latest binaries for Allegro can be found on my Eagle release page here : The compiler I used is noted in the release notes. EDIT \ My Website! | EAGLE GUI Library Demos | My Deviant Art Gallery | Spiraloid Preview | A4 FontMaker | Skyline! (Missile Defense) Eagle and Allegro 5 binaries | Older Allegro 4 and 5 binaries | Allegro 5 compile guide |
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Bob Keane
Member #7,342
June 2006
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Thanks. By reading this sig, I, the reader, agree to render my soul to Bob Keane. I, the reader, understand this is a legally binding contract and freely render my soul. |
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Neil Roy
Member #2,229
April 2002
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The last MinGW I downloaded was just the other day from the following site... It's fairly up to date with some extras included. I haven't honestly tested it yet, the last version I had on my system was GCC 8.7. This site has GCC 11.2.0 which sounds nice. --- |
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GullRaDriel
Member #3,861
September 2003
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I've made a post here as a reminder for myself. Contents of the reminder: I’ve set up my last allegro 5 install + compilers in less than 15 minutes. 1) download and install msys2 ( https://www.msys2.org/ ) Now launch the msys2 terminal and copy pasta the followings: #UPDATE MSYS2 "Code is like shit - it only smells if it is not yours" |
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Bob Keane
Member #7,342
June 2006
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Getting closer. I removed and reinstalled 7zip three or four times and got it to unzip the files properly. I tried compiling a simple program which worked prior to the restore but got undefined references to al_install_system, al_install_primitives, etc. Stack overflow suggests thesse are due to incompatible compiler/Allegro versions, so I deleted the files and downloaded the compiler and Allegro from Edgar's link. No change. I'll look again this weekend. By reading this sig, I, the reader, agree to render my soul to Bob Keane. I, the reader, understand this is a legally binding contract and freely render my soul. |
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Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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undefined references come from not linking properly. My binaries only come with the monolith libraries, so you need to link to those. My Website! | EAGLE GUI Library Demos | My Deviant Art Gallery | Spiraloid Preview | A4 FontMaker | Skyline! (Missile Defense) Eagle and Allegro 5 binaries | Older Allegro 4 and 5 binaries | Allegro 5 compile guide |
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Bob Keane
Member #7,342
June 2006
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Apparently I'm following an outdated guide. What are the correct libraries and which order should they be in? <edit> While looking up information on using the monoliths, I found references to #DEFINE STATIC LINK. Is that necessary in every file? By reading this sig, I, the reader, agree to render my soul to Bob Keane. I, the reader, understand this is a legally binding contract and freely render my soul. |
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MiquelFire
Member #3,110
January 2003
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If you want to compile your code without having an extra dll file, yes. Normally you would define that in your build process or a common header file though. I think with GCC, I haven't touch it in a long time so I may be wrong, the switch when compiling a C or C++ file would be -DSTATIC_LINK --- |
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Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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Pass it as a switch when compiling. -DALLEGRO_STATIC_LINK monolith has nothing to do with dynamic or static. There is a different .a for each. My Website! | EAGLE GUI Library Demos | My Deviant Art Gallery | Spiraloid Preview | A4 FontMaker | Skyline! (Missile Defense) Eagle and Allegro 5 binaries | Older Allegro 4 and 5 binaries | Allegro 5 compile guide |
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Bob Keane
Member #7,342
June 2006
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Thanks for the help. I got it to work without -DALLEGRO-STATIC-LINK. I'm using Code::Blocks, so I wouldn't know how to set it up for now. Is it important? By reading this sig, I, the reader, agree to render my soul to Bob Keane. I, the reader, understand this is a legally binding contract and freely render my soul. |
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MiquelFire
Member #3,110
January 2003
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Only if you don't want to include the dll file in your release. Seeing as you'll most likely have other files, I'm not sure there's a real benefit one way or the other if you only have one exe file. Linux on the other hand, you'll have it so the end user won't need sudo to install Allegro (and other libraries) if they're not already installed. I don't think many, if any, distros are configured to include a library from the program's directory. --- |
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Bob Keane
Member #7,342
June 2006
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I copied the list of libraries and list order from this thread but I get an "execution cannot proceed because libpng16.dll was not found error when running. I checked the Allegro 5 libs, there is a libpng16.dll.a file included. Any thoughts? <edit> I figured it out. ...I think. Edgar's guide included with his binaries suggest linking to libgcc.a, however that library is in a subdirectory labelled gcc. There is a libgcc_s.a in the parent directory,\Mingw\winlibs-x86_64-posix-seh-gcc-11.2.0-mingw-w64-9.0.0-r3\mingw64\lib, which appears to be static. When using the -D_STATICLINK option under the "other linker options", linking to the -static-libcc.a and -static-libg++.a options are unnecessary. Code:: Blocks will prompt you to set the flag for static linking when you add the -D_STATICLINK option. Food for the wise. By reading this sig, I, the reader, agree to render my soul to Bob Keane. I, the reader, understand this is a legally binding contract and freely render my soul. |
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