Re: [AD] Two threads on ACC

[Andrei Ellman <ae-a-alleg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ryan Patterson wrote:
> I've installed allegro several times before under cygwin. I've
> compiled some notes, but I don't know how accurate they are.
>
> -Allegro- if you have trouble, see
> http://www.allegro.cc/forums/view_thread.php?_id=262116
> -Allegro- except only change the direct.h to mingw/ and copy _mingw.h
> to .. instead of changing all 4 to mingw/ (it causes problems with
> stdlib.h, et al)
>
> So it seems one should change the header that has the whole
> SCAN_DEpeND block to read mingw/direct.h, then copy
> /usr/include/whatever/mingw/_mingw.h to /usr/include/whatever.


This is not the correct way to go about it! The thread on allegro.cc in 
question was actually started by myself. I have long since learned that 
the problem I encountered was really due to Allegro's building on Cygwin 
being broken in versions of Allegro prior to WIP 4.1.10, and the advice 
I give in the thread is just mis-leading. Fixing the problem using the 
method in the thread is more of a bodge than a fix, and therefore, a bad 
idea. Instead, get the latest version of the 4.2 branch. It is not fixed 
in 4.0.3 (although it's fixed in the CVS version of 4.0.x branch).


AE.