Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 00:09:28 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jens Meise <jens AT r1 DOT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: allegro & cross compiler - how?
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On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, George Foot wrote:
> >  Jens Meise wrote:
> > > i can't compile allegro with the 
> > > cross compiler as the makefile uses dos programs.
> 
> Allegro creates some programs while it builds to help it build
> further ...
> may not be the case in a cross-compilation.  You could modify
> the makefile to build these intermediate progarms not for the
> DOS target but for whatever machine you're building on, but in
> particular the asmdefs program might not work properly.
that was the bad one. i tried to change the makefile, but it did 
not work...
> any more.  If you like, I can build the library for you and
> temporarily upload it somewhere.  
that would be really great! thanx a lot!
> Tell me which version you
> want, out of:
> 
>     Allegro 3.0
>     Allegro 3.0 + WIP from March 25th
>     Allegro 3.0 + WIP from April 26th
>     Allegro 3.0 + WIP from May 30th
> 
> Generally there is no reason not to use the latest WIP (May
> 30th); it's been around for a long time and is very stable, even
ok, i take that one then. 
 liballeg.a is all i need i reckon.

cheers again!
jens