From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Allegro Questions... Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 34 X-Trace: /bJ8XSiocceUSgz5nTJdXzPbEbABPIyZIhBYHF5BaY1aueVNYUI9uhb/VBCPcdr/Z9VtxrA3CsOk!hC3MTGbVYk5zGXTitGvn5O9KJRjV2g9diY/k8U1x0+f7L7fR0zQHbLT4ry7jJVCaUTRsDyDx2xTB!gbS+ X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:07:39 GMT Distribution: world Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:07:39 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 05:51:51 GMT, "JS" wrote: > 1. What command line parameters can I use to reduce the size of my exe. >files. ALSO, what do these parameters mean and do? gcc -s foo.c -lalleg -o foo.exe -s : remove debugging symbols upx -9 foo.exe upx : pack an existing DJGPP exe http://upx.tsx.org/ > 2. Is it ABSOLUTELY necessary to call 'detect_digi_driver()' AND >'detect_midi_driver()' before calling 'install_sound()'? No. In fact I don't recommend it. > 3. When n NOT using the 'allegro.cfg' file, what should I put as the last >parameter in 'install_sound'? Perhaps, a zero? In the latest Allegro (3.1 and later), you should always pass 0 as the last argument. For questions that are more related to Allegro itself than to its DJGPP version, there is a mailing list: http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/maillist.html -- tiddly-day interj. (used to express agreement.) [American cellphone lingo] This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your signature to prevent the spread of signature viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/