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- Subject: Re: [AD] Don't use Devpaks
- From: Thomas Fjellstrom <thomas@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 10:52:03 -0600
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On Mon 09 May 2016 09:37:10 AM Andrew Robinson wrote:
> >Dev-Cpp is actually just an IDE, it sometimes comes bundled with Mingw32
> >(which is a compiler), but its pretty ancient now. Whoever maintains the
> >devpak could talk about it more, but i can't remember who that is, I don't
> >believe it's officially supported, unlike the MSVC, and MSYS packages. I
> >had thought there was a generic Mingw package too, not 100% certain about
> >that mind you.
>
> Yeah, you can use it with many other compilers, but I like the default one
> because it is the only one I know that allows it to be portable. Dev-Cpp
> allows you to import MSVC projects (not sure how well it works for that yet)
> and there are some branches of Dev-Cpp that sound interesting, like the
> wxDev-Cpp with the built-in GUI designer.
>
> >> Using MSYS2 to install a Linux environment in Windows so you can use a
>
> Linux
>
> >> compiler is a joke. This needs to be done right and using Dev-Cpp was the
> >> right way to do it. If your best advice is "you are on your own", then
> >> Allegro is a dead project or it needs to be.
> >
> >Allegro 4 is pretty much dead now. Allegro 5 though is not, and has working
> >packages for MSVC, MSYS, and MingW iirc.
>
> I suppose all I want to know for a fact is, are the Allegro 5 APIs written
> in C++ or C?
>
C, just like Allegro 4. But it is useable in C++.
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