From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Allegro, where? Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 20:08:03 +0000 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt Lines: 33 Message-ID: <348EF6A3.7C9@cs.com> References: <01bd058f$662b0700$LocalHost AT none> Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp225.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Mark wrote: > > Everybody keeps talking about this Allegro Library, it sounds excellent. > Where do I get it, and how big is it? Allegro is a part of the SimTel DJGPP distribution. Assuming that you obtained DJGPP from a SimTel mirror, simply go to the same place and get v2tk/alleg22.zip, which is the latest released version. The zipfile is approximately 1 megabyte, expands to 2.4 megabytes, and in its compiled form with all objects, libraries, and executables, Allegro takes about 10 megabytes. You can, of course, delete everything except the header and library when you are done building it. Allegro 2.2 requires GNU Make (v2gnu/mak375b.zip), and the C++ components of DJGPP (v2gnu/gpp2721b.zip and v2gnu/lgp271b.zip) for a clean build, but there is a workaround if you don't want to install C++ (see the Allegro readmes). The latest version of Allegro, with truecolor support, C++-free building, and many thousands of other improvements, is in development and may be downloaded for testing purposes if you are curious about it. I'm sure you can find Shawn Hargreaves' web site somewhere on this mailing list. :-) hth -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich | A singer in a smoky room / Smell of | | aka Fighteer I | wine and cheap perfume / For a smile | | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | they can share the night / It goes | | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | on and on and on... | ---------------------------------------------------------------------