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> as you already probably know the official abbreviation for Minimalistic
> GNU for Windows is now MinGW (MingW32 is obsolete). Explanation is here:
> http://mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-what . So there is an opinion that
> Allegro documentation should respect this. So I've tried to create
> corresponding patch.
I've been meaning to do it for some time... thanks. However, it appears that
you went a bit too far:
@@ -103,9 +103,9 @@
3. Set the environment variable MINGDIR to the compiler directory. If you
use Windows 9x, you can add the line
<textblock>
- set MINGDIR=c:\mingw32
+ set MINGDIR=c:\MinGW
<endblock>
- to your '<tt>c:\autoexec.bat</tt>' file, assuming
'<tt>c:\mingw32</tt>' is the compiler
+ to your '<tt>c:\autoexec.bat</tt>' file, assuming '<tt>c:\MinGW</tt>'
is the compiler
directory, and reboot. If you use Windows ME, you can run
'<tt>msconfig</tt>',
select the 'Environment' tab and then add <tt>MINGDIR</tt>. If you use
Windows NT/2k/XP, you can open the Control Panel, click the 'System'
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
Test the installation by typing the following on the command line:
'<tt>gcc -v</tt>'. The answer should be similar to:
<textblock>
- Reading specs from ../lib/gcc-lib/mingw32/3.2/specs
+ Reading specs from ../lib/gcc-lib/MinGW/3.2/specs
Configured with: ../gcc/configure --with-gcc --with-gnu-ld
--with-gnu-as --host=mingw32 --target=mingw32 --prefix=/mingw
--enable-threads --disable-nls --enable-languages=f77,c++,objc,ada
'mingw32' is still the official platform designator registered with the GNU
project, so I think we must keep the directory names unchanged.
Applied to mainline with this correction.
> BTW speaking of documentation, the allegro.chm file contains all files
> from build directory but none of them is referenced from contents nor
> index (they are only available through search).
Not even from the first chapter "A general introduction to Allegro"?
--
Eric Botcazou