Allegro.pas

[turrican]

Nice! This is the best time to puts hands over allegro

[Ñuño Martínez]

Some weeks ago I decided I should make Allegro.pas fully compatible with Delphi, so I was working on it. I had to download Delphi Tokio Starter Edition because Delphi 6 (the one I have) has some issues with compilation directives (i.e. {$IFEND} vs. {$ENDIF}). Right now I've worked only in one of the simplest examples, ex_bitmap that just loads and renders a bitmap in a window, and seems to work. Unfortunately I haven't more Delphi versions (except Delphi 6 that isn't compatible) so I don't know if it works in other ones.

Also I was thinking about a suggestion made by Akira13 in the MinGRo's thread so I've added a directory named "Lazarus" and created a project file for each example. It seems to work, so I'll try the same for Delphi too.

Once I accomplished Delphi compatibility and I integrate Handoko's game demo with the library (and may be port my demo from the 4 branch too) then I'll make a beta release.

[Ñuño Martínez]

This is going too slow, but now all examples compile using Delphi, but some of them doesn't work.

[Ñuño Martínez]

I didn't manage to make all examples run with Delphi but anyway, I've released it. Maybe somebody with more Delphi knowledge can help.

You can read the announcement here.

From now, I'll try to fix the Delphi stuff that doesn't work, add stuff that is still unsupported from Allegro and complete the documentation adding more examples too.

[SilverWarior]

Hi!
I tried to compile examples in Delphi bit every time when application tries to start I get "The program can't start because libwinpthread-1.dll is missing from your computer"
What is this library part of? Or where can I get it safely?

[Ñuño Martínez]

It is part of the MinGW-w64 project. Read this thread for more information and tell me if it fixes the problem.

I hadn't that problem because I compiled Allegro by myself. May be I should add the DLL by myself as I did with branch 4.

[SilverWarior]

May be I should add the DLL by myself as I did with branch 4.

That would not be a bad idea. I bet many people might be dissuaded from using of your library if they need to go and search for the required dependencies all around the web.

I went and downloaded the latest version of MinGW project but it seems that it might only include 64 bit version of the "libwinpthread-1.dll" which of course doesn't work with 32 bit applications. And Delphi being Delphi it doesn't give me an option to add 64 bit windows platform to the project.