From: Ian Chapman <ichapman AT nortel DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Allegro
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:30:40 -0400
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If he has Borland he may have owl and a pile of documentation to go with
it.  He may not be able to port owl over to dj.  If it's been done I'd
like to be in on it.

      Regards Ian.


George Foot wrote:
> 
> MoD (mod AT exo DOT com) wrote:
> : hey i want to use allegro... but i just got Borlad C++ 4.0 and allegro says
> : it only compiles the allegro.h under djgpp... is there any other version
> : taht is compatible with BC4? or is there a source for it?
> 
> No, Allegro is now exclusively for DJGPP (Linux port pending). Besides, why
> are you using an inferior compiler if you have DJGPP? You shouldn't need
> Borland products any more...
> 
> Allegro's distribution is entirely source; however, it is written in AT&T
> style assembler in places, and by its very nature (being a low-level
> library) it is not portable to other compilers.
> 
> --
> George Foot <gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
> Merton College, Oxford.