Where do I put allegro?

[minesweeper]

Ok, I am new to game programming but have done quite a bit of C++ programming at university. I downloaded allegro but the problem is that I am not too sure on where to put it. The download consists of lots of different files and folders and my C++ compiler (Borland) also has loads of folders. I know that in order to use allegro you have to tell the compiler where the library is. How do you do this?

[Green]

There should be instructions in allegro\docs\build

usully you type something like

cd c:\allegro
fix.bat bcc32
make
make install

and all the files fill be copied to the right folders and you can then make programs, linking with alleg.lib

[minesweeper]

Yeah I tried that but you have to have make right? So I tried downloading a file called GNU Make as directed by the allegro instructions and then running it. It then wouldn't work. Any ideas what the problem is?

[Justin W]

What version of Borland's compiler do you have? See my sig for a graphcial installer for Allegro with Borland that requires no make or command line at all. Has worked with all versions of Borland that it has been tested with so far, but that is only the free command line tools (5.5) and a recent Borland Builder. Haven't had the opportunity to try anything else yet.. but I've heard that version 4 Borlands have trouble with Allegro in general.

Hope that helps.

-Justin

[Nutshell]

What if i'm using windows?

[minesweeper]

I'm using Borland 4.5. Will this present me with a problem?

[opengl15]

My best bet is to use a free IDE compiler named Dev-C++ 4 from the company www.bloodshed.net . I find that compiler very good and it supports Allegro and OpenGL to the fullest . Just go to the site and download the Allegro Packages and install it and it will install it self into the Dev-C++ folder. Thats all to it and bam you can use Allegro.

[unanimous]

If you want to use Allegro, I would recommend going out and spending $100 on MSVC++ 6.0. Allegro easily installs and you can get a wizard to start setting up you Allegro app.

[pode]

why pay when u can get it for free!

btw i have msvc++ and dev-c++ i would recommend dev-c++
cause it's much better than microsofts visual ****
it has happend many times that i get errors using msvc++
but with dev the same code would compile without a singel error!