From: "Zimba" <zimba AT zamba DOT com>
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Subject: Allegro WIP3934 & W2K problems
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:59:08 +0100
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Hi,

I just installed the latest Allegro WIP (3934) with the precompiled DLLs on
W2K. The installation went fine, except for some warnings:

...
setup\setup.c(1802) : warning C4090: 'initializing' : different 'const'
qualifiers
setup\setup.c(1814) : warning C4090: 'initializing' : different 'const'
qualifiers
...
dat.c
The system cannot find the path specified.
datedit.c
...
tools\plugins\datgrid.c(367) : warning C4090: 'initializing' : different
'const' qualifiers
tools\plugins\datgrid.c(369) : warning C4090: 'initializing' : different
'const' qualifiers
tools\plugins\datgrid.c(203) : warning C4700: local variable 'dat' used
without having been initialized
...

I have also run the test programs. I haven't tried everything and most of
what I tried seems to work, except for some strange things in Test.exe:

- When I run it and try a windowed DirectDraw the program suddenly
disappears after some seconds (and my Outlook Express new post window that
happened to be open had been resized!).

- When I run a mouse test in DirectDraw mode or autodetect the screen
suddenly becomes black, with only the mouse coordinates in white. It seems
that not everything is updated correclty.

Still, it is much better than WIP 3433 that wouldn't work at all on my
system.

Is this all W2K related or something else?

Best regards,
Clemens

BTW, I have DirectX8 SDK installed in debug mode with W2K SP1 and MSVC++ 6
SP4.