ZC 2.53.0 fails to compile Ubuntu 16.04

[roracle]

If I'm not mistaken, I believe AG uses a specific build of Allegro, customized to what they're doing. This is why, from what I can tell, they offer their own Allegro as part of the ZC download, but now I'm not so sure that's what's happening here.

[ZoriaRPG]

If I'm not mistaken, I believe AG uses a specific build of Allegro, customized to what they're doing. This is why, from what I can tell, they offer their own Allegro as part of the ZC download, but now I'm not so sure that's what's happening here.

Our Allegro has one specific fix not in 4.4.3/4.4.4, but it is only a Windows fix.

We package Allegro because MSVC / Windows needs those files to build. On Linux, you can set up Allegro in your normal libs and include paths., and you can use the current full 4.x release from allegro.cc, if you want.

There are other issues in the src that we may need to fix (ZC 2.53 should be safe to compile, but 2.55 neesd some adjustments for g++), but Allegro is not one of them, on Linux. In fact, you will find that most Allegro 4 games still active are on Linux. I strongly advise also joining the forums on allegro.cc. Perhaps over there, we two, with the combined resources of the member-base there, can get some LX builds done.

2.53 R3 is nearing completion, and IIRC, I applied the 2.53 Linux fixes to it. Checkout branch 2.53 and see if you can compile it with some help from allegro.cc.


Please also join our Discord server for ZC Development: https://discord.gg/ZqdG9wM

I'd love to discuss this with you in real-time, over there.