geevi / cpro_allegro

Learning C using Drawings, Graphics and Games

This repo contains some sample programs to help learn C.

A simplified interface to allegro libary is provided (allegro.h) which helps to write programs with less boilerpate code.

Usage

1. Install Allegro 5 library:

https://github.com/liballeg/allegro_wiki/wiki/Quickstart.

Linux

Ubuntu 18.04+ (or derivatives thereof)

First, add the Allegro PPA. This gives you up-to-date versions of Allegro; the base repos only provide 5.2.3 at the time of writing.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:allegro/5.2

Then, install Allegro:

sudo apt-get install liballegro*5.2 liballegro*5-dev

Debian-based distributions (Debian, Mint, Ubuntu, etc..)

sudo apt-get install liballegro-ttf5-dev

Fedora

sudo dnf install allegro5*

Arch

sudo pacman -S allegro

openSUSE Tumbleweed

sudo zypper install liballegro*

Others

Binary packages may be available for your distro; feel free to add them here if so.

Otherwise, select "Something else" below.

OSX

Install with Homebrew

brew install allegro

You will also need to install pkg-config, if it is not already installed.

brew install pkg-config

Windows

1. Download and Install MSYS2 (https://www.msys2.org/)

2. Install GCC and make:

Open the MSYS2 UCRT64 terminal (from start menu)

run command pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gcc

run command pacman -S make

3. Install Allegro

Download and extract: https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/releases/download/5.2.8.0/allegro-x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc-12.1.0-posix-seh-dynamic-5.2.8.0.zip

Copy the include, lib, bin folders in the extracted allegro folder to [MSYS2 Directory]\ucrt64.

4. Download and extract the files in https://github.com/geevi/cpro_allegro/archive/refs/heads/main.zip to [MSYS2 Directory]/home/[username]/

5. Open MSYS2 UCRT64 terminal (from start menu).

cd cpro_allegro-main

make

2. Download and extract the code

from: https://github.com/geevi/cpro_allegro/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

3. Compile

using either of the bellow options

• Run the long command
  gcc 2_rec_drawing.c allegro.c $(pkg-config allegro-5 allegro_font-5 allegro_primitives-5 allegro_audio-5 allegro_acodec-5 allegro_image-5 --libs --cflags) -lm
• run the script provided
  • bash linux_compile.sh for linux and mac
  • windows_compile.bat for windows
• run make
  • make 1 for compiling 1_learn_draw. Run the executable 1.out
  • make 2 for compiling 2_rec_drawing. Run the executable 2.out