Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:17:23 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Shervin <shinab AT eisa DOT net DOT au>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: trouble installing DJGPP
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On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Shervin wrote:

> I get the feeling that there are tones of other people that also are having
> trouble installing

Actually, no.  Most people have no trouble installing DJGPP at all.  It's 
only those who don't read all those README files that have problems ;-).

> but anyway:  I have just installed DJGPP, I've changed
> autoexec.bat, and I want to use allegro, but I can't find the file
> "liballeg.a", and everyone seems to say that allegro needs to be compiled
> first.  How do I do this?  (I don't know understand the makefiles).

Just follow the instructions, you don't need to understand Makefiles, 
since somebody has already prepared them.  I believe the instructions say 
something like ``install the packages, then chdir to the Allegro source 
directory and type "make"''.  But PLEASE read the instructions, don't 
just do the above because I said so!