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++. > _______________________________________________ > Allegro-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/allegro-developers -- Thomas Fjellstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ Allegro-developers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/allegro-developers
