How do you set up to use the full Allegro library on Windows Vista and Visual Studio 2008?
Do you have to compile it or is it only a matter of setting searchpaths?
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How do you set up to use the full Allegro library on Windows Vista and Visual Studio 2008?
Do you have to compile it or is it only a matter of setting searchpaths?
It is possible to download a pre-compiled MSVC binary. Then it is just a matter of telling Visual Studio where to find Allegro’s *.h headers and *.lib library files. Also the Allegro DLL’s need to be somewhere in the system path.
The Allegro wiki has instructions for configuring a Visual Studio Express 2008 project…
Check out the related question for some other useful Allegro development resources.