Allegro in Visual Studio

This page documents how to install and manage Allegro in Visual Studio 2015+.

Installation

Using NuGet is recommended.

Using NuGet within Visual Studio

Using PowerShell

Go to your project's directory and use Install-Package:

cd MyProjectDir\
Install-Package Allegro

Configuration

Allegro package comes with a few options that you can and should configure.

• Right click your project name, and select Properties.

• Select Allegro 5 entry and the Library type item. This is where you configure what type of build of Allegro you'll be using.

  • For now, select Dynamic Debug - Dynamic Runtime. This will use the Debug version of Allegro, which is Dynamic (which means there will be Allegro DLLs next to your program) and it'll be using a Dynamic Runtime (doesn't matter much here, as you're probably not going to distribute your program with the Debug version of Allegro).
  • Using the Debug version of Allegro is recommended during development as it will have additional checks to make help you make sure you're using Allegro correctly.

• Now select the Add-ons item. Here you enable which Allegro addons you'll be using. For this tutorial, we'll be using the Font Addon so change that to Yes.

• Hit the Apply button.