From: "Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel" <kalum AT newmail DOT net>
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 18:27:09 +0600
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Subject: Re: Problem with allegro
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On 8 Jan 00, at 7:45, denis jobin <djobin1 AT globetrotter DOT qc DOT ca> 
wrote:

> When I compile something that use function from allegro.h, (like some of
> the examples included in the allegro package) it`s work well. But when I
> come to build it, I get a lot of "undefined reference to..." error message.
> {eg: (10) undefined reference to allegro_init()}

Hi Denis,
 First please make sure that you include the allegro header file in 
you program using #include <allegro.h>.

And when you compile a program which uses allegro functions 
please make sure that you link in the allegro library by adding the "-
lalleg" (without the quotes) switch. And example compilation will be 
"gcc game.c -o game.exe -lalleg" 

The -lalleg instructs the linker to link with the allegro library 
otherwise the linker will report undefined references.

So I think your program should compile OK after adding the -lalleg 
switch.

> The reason why I think it occur is that when I builded allegro, I used "make all" instead of "make" because I didn`t had
> the .exe required to use "make". 

To compile allegro you need MAKE.EXE which proceses 
makefiles. You get it by downloading and unzipping mak377b.zip 
to the DJGPP directory. AFAIK there is no EXE required to use 
MAKE. So I am a bit confused here. 

So if when you went to the allegro directory and typed "make all" 
and you saw allegro being built then you have MAKE.EXE installed.
If allegro is built without errors then it will copy allegro.h to your 
"djgpp\include" directory and liballeg.a(the allegro library) to the 
"djgpp\lib" directory. You can check if these files are there to see 
whether allegro is installed properly. 

Hope This Helps
Kalum