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« Reply #20 on: March 21, 2010, 05:17:23 PM » |
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Perhaps it's because there are a few other things in my PATH that are in Program Files...
Also, thanks for the link.
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« Reply #21 on: March 23, 2010, 03:40:41 AM » |
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Perhaps it's because there are a few other things in my PATH that are in Program Files...
Also, thanks for the link.
Make sure to put these in "quotes" then Anyway, allegro's windows distribution method is just flawed and not worth your trouble. Just use Devpacks. There's supposed to be a Code::Blocks pluggin for them. No it isn't. Also, people should learn to compile things, it comes in handy. |
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« Reply #22 on: March 23, 2010, 07:27:18 AM » |
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Man... why... why Windows? Why... why encourage Windows as the main OS for programming C..?
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« Reply #23 on: April 02, 2010, 06:13:24 AM » |
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Man... why... why Windows? Why... why encourage Windows as the main OS for programming C..?
Man... why..?
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1. Linux gaming barely exists 2. Allegro sucks on Linux 3. You want someone to actually play your gams, no? main != only, and I never said anything about Linux (although I did think of Linux). I wasn't entirely serious, though. Like I said, C is a nice language (although I feel a bit handicapped without OOP and generics, so that's why I use C++ myself), and Allegro seems to be a good starting point for graphical programming in C/C++ (and many other libraries are), and the tutorial itself looks like it has a lot of information, which is all good. I just found it a bit humorous that such a loooong part was about obtaining the compiler and IDE. |
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« Reply #24 on: April 02, 2010, 10:27:18 AM » |
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I just found it a bit humorous that such a loooong part was about obtaining the compiler and IDE.
You're right there, mate. Getting this done in e.g. Ubuntu, would be like, 4 mouse clicks. Also, the hard-mode forces people to learn. But then... i haven't seen this tut helpful, I guess GM is the choice here |
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« Reply #25 on: April 02, 2010, 10:32:15 AM » |
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Anyway, allegro's windows distribution method is just flawed and not worth your trouble. Just use Devpacks. There's supposed to be a Code::Blocks pluggin for them. No it isn't. Also, people should learn to compile things, it comes in handy. Devpacks proved more intuitive in this instance, just as .lib files will prove more intuitive in visual studio. It is good to learn the "proper" way to compile things, but on windows there is no "proper" way, so when something screws up (such as for skofo) you're really just in the dark. Open source on windows is fine, but without the binaries there is no way to figure out whether you have correctly compiled the software. That is why there is a whole tutorial on these boards dedicated to avoiding crap like this in visual studio(huge paraphrase on my part). |
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« Reply #26 on: April 13, 2010, 03:19:45 AM » |
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You actually NEED to learn that, no imagine you're using ready bins only and then you have to use some crap found in an abyss of google cached non-existant website and that's the first thing you need to get compiling yourself. And "abyss stuff" are sometimes valuable games (ref: Physical engine by Alex Rivers)
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« Reply #27 on: May 04, 2010, 03:50:55 PM » |
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This means, we define WIDTH as 320 and HEIGHT as 240, these are like constants, but it works a bit different.
Compiler will replace every occurence of WIDTH and HEIGHT with the actual values before compiling, so if you have a variable named MyButtWIDTH, it will change it to MyButt320 and probably give an error somewhere in the process. Not sure about other compilers, but MSVC won't do this. In fact, if you want that behavior, you have to jump through some hoops involvings multiple #defines and use of the ## concatenation operator. Agree. GCC won't compile it neither (it will treat MyButtWIDTH as completely new identifier). But besides that dobra robota! |
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« Reply #28 on: May 10, 2010, 10:03:21 AM » |
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Super noob here. So I have very little programming knowledge/experience, but I have been interested in learning for a long time. Mainly I haven't had the time. My 11yr old son is really into gaming and wants to start learning to make games. Is this a good start for us to work on together? Or is there a better starting point? I came here initially because he loves Spelunky and I told him that Derek released the code. So we're gonna get MinGW and Allegro and get started. If anyone has any tips, we would appreciate it!! Thanks, and Big Thanks to Sos for posting this tut!  |
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« Reply #29 on: June 02, 2010, 12:50:51 AM » |
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« Reply #30 on: June 04, 2010, 11:47:51 PM » |
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Thnx for this tutorial.
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« Reply #31 on: June 07, 2010, 10:41:58 AM » |
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Thanks for the tut, I've been hunting around for a decent tut. Going to begin dl'ing tonight and see what I can do. Thanks again! I'm concerned that the game is about killing or raping You could always make it about giving away free candy to strangers  |
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