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From:	Shawn Hargreaves <slh100 AT york DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Allegro and linux
Date:	Sat, 15 Jun 1996 16:58:51 +0100
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On 14 Jun 1996, Ralph A Pope wrote:

> OK, quick question - what would it involve to port Allegro to work with 
> the Linux version of GCC, or is it already compilable and compatible?  Is 

It won't work at present. I don't have any experience of Linux, but at a 
guess, I would imagine the hard work in porting it would be converting 
the keyboard/mouse/timer/etc code (this would probably involve completely 
rewriting most of it). I don't know how you access video memory under 
Linux, but assumming there is some way of getting direct access to it, 
the graphics code would be pretty easy to convert. And then there's the 
sound code... The sample player probably wouldn't cause much trouble, but 
I think the MIDI player would present problems. Does Linux support MIDI? 
I fear not...

I don't have the time to port it myself, although I'd love to see a Linux 
version. Anyone else want to have a go?

> it possible?  I hope so, 'cause I'd REALLY hate having to learn GRX... 

What's so bad about grx? Of course I'm biased in favour of Allegro, but 
grx is a good lib too :-)


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