Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/04/27/14:29:37
Jaspeers writes:
>Can anyone here send me the compiled version of allegro? I've had
>trouble compiling it on my own. Thanks in advance.
This is quite a common request, but I have a policy of not supplying
compiled versions, for several reasons:
For starters, liballeg.a is about 450k, but you'd probably also want
various utilities like the grabber, sound setup, etc. And what about
all the example programs? If I included compiled versions of everything,
a binary distribution would be over 7 megs: pretty silly to keep
transferring such bulk around when it all fits into 500k of source code!
More seriously though, there just isn't any reason why you can't build
it yourself. A compiler is a deterministic process: given a particular
input file and command line, it will always produce the same output. If
this isn't working, you either have the wrong input files (ie. your copy
of Allegro is broken in some way), or the wrong command line (it's hard
to see how that could happen, as all you have to do is type "make"...)
or your compiler is broken, ie. you didn't install djgpp properly.
There's no special magic required to build Allegro: to be honest I find
it hard to understand how it could fail to work! But since something has
obviously managed to go wrong, it needs to be fixed: sending you a
compiled version is just sweeping the problem under the carpet rather
than trying to repair it...
So, please make sure you have read the djgpp readme.1st file, and the
readme.txt and faq.txt from the Allegro distribution. If none of these
help, post a more detailed description of your problem (what you are
doing to build it, and what error messages you get), and I'm sure
someone here will be able to help you.
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