From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: Allegro Questions...
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 00:12:21 GMT
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On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 22:14:30 GMT, eglebbk AT dds DOT nl (Evert Glebbeek)
wrote:

>From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
>>"JS" <jmszczap82 AT adelphia DOT net> 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/
>
>Is there a qualitative difference between upx and djp?

UPX springs from the djp and lzop projects.  UPX uses a newer
(smaller/faster?) compression library.  UPX also supports more exe
formats (DOS MZ, DJGPP COFF, Win32 PE, Watcom LE, Linux ELF...)

>>>  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.
>
>Why not?

If you call detect_*_driver() first, you won't hear MIDI if there
is no digi available, and you won't hear digi if there is no MIDI
available.  If you skip detect_*_driver() and just install_sound(),
you can still hear one or the other.  I learned this the hard way
when a new Linux kernel I compiled lacked support for SB FM MIDI,
causing Allegro not to play waves.  I removed the detect_*() calls
from the program and it worked fine.

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