From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: Q: allegro_message
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 16:03:10 GMT
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Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 16:03:10 GMT
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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On Fri, 09 Jun 2000 07:37:11 GMT, zargon AT hotmail DOT vom (Zargon) wrote:

>[Allegro 3.9.32 doesn't work]
>Specifically, the instructions on DJGPP have not changed much: instead
>of just using "make" you are supposed to do "make" and then "make
>install".

This is to make it more consistent with standard practice on other
platforms (e.g. eunuchs).

>Well, that has no bearing on the fact that the initial
>"make" no longer works:
>
>Compiling Allegro for djgpp, optimised. Please wait...
>gcc -DALLEGRO_SRC -Wall -Wno-unused -mpentium -O6 -ffast-math
>-fomit-frame-pointer -I. -I./include -o obj/djgpp/alleg/allegro.o -c
>src/allegro.c
>In file included from src/allegro.c:22:
>include/allegro/aintern.h:32: parse error before `_allegro_count'
>include/allegro/aintern.h:32: warning: type defaults to `int' in
>declaration of `AL_VAR'
>include/allegro/aintern.h:32: warning: data definition has no type or
>storage class
>include/allegro/aintern.h:36: parse error before `_scratch_mem'
>...

Sounds like a compiler problem.  It WORKS4ME.

>The result of gcc --version is:
>
>C:\DJGPP\allegro>gcc --version
>egcs-291.60

Try upgrading to GCC 2.95.2 and DJGPP 2.03.

>I am astonished that a severe showstopper at compile time on Allegro's
>*original platform* would make it into a released zip file. Of course,
>in unpacking the thing I probably overwrote the previous, known-good
>Allegro 3.12...

This may have been your problem.  Try unpacking Allegro somewhere else
on your drive.

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