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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:38:11 GMT
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Paul Michailidis wrote:
> 
> Basically I installed everything correctly but I didn't set up the
> environment in the right way. For instance, I did not allocate enough
> DPMI memory, which is why it came up with the "virtual memory exhausted"
> error.
> 
> Anyway, just a general question. What is the point of running "make" in
> the allegro folder? why is it that you have to make allegro. Shouldn't
> it be ready to run once you download it? Also, before you run make,
> there already exists an allegro.h file. Wouldn't that suffice in order
> to successfully include allegro.
> 

you need to 'make' and  'make install' allegro if you downloaded
the source distribution. I wasn't aware there was a binary DJGPP
.zip for allegro...

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