Re: [AD] Allegro 4.2 doesn't compile under OpenWatcom 1.0

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Evert Glebbeek wrote:

> > The build docs claim that OpenWatcom 1.0 is supported. First problem
> > is that it doesn't include either inttypes.h or stdint.h, but the
> > Allegro include defines the former.
> >    
>
> I saw your message on A.CC about gcc 2.95 and an issue with the same file.
> Was that resolved already? In any case, the build should not choke on a
> missing inttypes.h or stdint.h - if it does, it's a bug we should fix.
> I haven't looked at how the availability is determined but if I were to
> guess I'd say that it's checked using the configure script in *nix, meaning
> the detection is broken in Windows. That's a shot in the dark on my part
> though.
>  

It's just a static config (see include/allegro/platform/almngw32.h).  I 
find it strange that inttypes.h is not there, but we can just comment 
out #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H.

> > Commenting it out fails to work, because it does not recognize the
> > #warning command. :P
> >    
>
> Hehe. I used to get that too with gcc in a strict mode. It seems the
> portable name should be #warn.
>  
?? I don't see anything about #warn in the GNU cpp manual.

> > Version 1.3 is the most recent, but I don't have it. Is Allegro known
> > to compile on that?
> >    
>
> To my knowledge, no one has tested it.
>  

I did test it when writing the 64-bitness patch, but not since.

Peter