From: Stuart Moore <stuart_moore AT my-deja DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Allegro WIP3934 & W2K problems
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 09:24:19 GMT
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In article <9595sr$40c$1 AT s1 DOT read DOT news DOT oleane DOT net>,
  "Zimba" <zimba AT zamba DOT com> wrote:
> 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.

Well, I had to comment out the section in the makefile regarding the
Make package (!) to get it to compile, but so far no troubles (DJGPP
2.03, 95B). I've heard DX8 has problems. DX8+W2K+WIP Allegro=BIG
problems?

Bye,

--
Stuart "Sslaxx" Moore.
http://www.btinternet.com/~sslaxx


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