From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: how to compile allegro program
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On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:49:02 +0800, "Bob Bailey" <bbailey AT ficnet DOT net>
wrote:

>Yesterday I started trying to use Allegro.
>My current goal is to write custom data plotting programs.
>Nothing fancy.
>
>I got Allegro 3.9.33 installed OK, and the example
>programs run OK.  However, when _I_ compile, for
>example, the exhello.c program, it takes
>much longer for the program to end and return to
>the DOS prompt than the installed exhello.exe program.
>
>The probem would seem to be the way I compile
>my own version of exhello.c.  The supplied makefiles are just
>too complicated to unravel and do whatever
>they do to compilie the program.  You could say that I
>don't know what to make of it.  :) (Would be nice if
>software writers would include instructions for compiling,
>not just installation.)

To compile an Allegro program, do this:
  gcc -Wall -O3 foo.c bar.c baz.c -lalleg -o foo.exe

This is in readme.dj

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