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Installation in depth
Note: this has been lifted from the Getting Started article on the old wiki. As with everything else, WIP. -dthompson
If you want to use Allegro, you should be able to work comfortably with a computer and know the basics of programming in C or C++ either using an IDE or though the command line of your operating system. If you do not know how to program yet then please see Learn C or C++.
The tutorials below show you how to install Allegro with the pre-built binaries using different IDEs and compilers. If you don't see your system listed here, see the manual building instructions in the next section.
The latest version 5 binaries may be found on the official website.
- Install Allegro from Nuget for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015+.
- Installing with MSYS2
- Windows, Visual Studio 2008 and Allegro 5.
- Windows, Visual Studio 2010 and Allegro 5.
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Windows, Code::Blocks and Allegro 5.
- Hiding the console window with Code::Blocks has additional information on using CodeBlocks.
- Install Allegro from Ubuntu PPAs.
- Install Allegro from apt on Debian-based distributions
- Fedora and Allegro 5.
These tutorials show how to build Allegro from it's sources, which is necessary if there are no pre-built binaries available for your system, or you want to try out the unstable version of Allegro outside of its snapshot releases.
- Building with msys2
- Install_Allegro5_From_Git/Windows
- Building Allegro 5.1 (rev 15032) Windows 7
- Notes on building with MSVC
- Install_Allegro5_From_GIT/OSX.
- OSX, Xcode 4, Framework.
- OSX, Xcode 5, dylib
- OSX, Xcode 5, static libraries
- Install Allegro5 From Git. These instructions will also work on Linux if you skip the OSX specific parts.
For an introduction how to use Allegro with Android see this page: Running_Allegro_applications_on_Android
Or follow the directions in the README_android.txt found in the source distribution of Allegro.