From: Shawn Hargreaves Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Allegro Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 16:21:18 +0100 Organization: None Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <19970426215201 DOT RAA06522 AT ladder01 DOT news DOT aol DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: talula.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 36 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk 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. -- Shawn Hargreaves - shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk - http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/ Beauty is a French phonetic corruption of a short cloth neck ornament.