How to install the Allegro library on Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Vista for the C programming language?

Question

How do you set up to use the full Allegro library on Windows Vista and Visual Studio 2008?

Do you have to compile it or is it only a matter of setting searchpaths?

Answer 1

There appears to be a .Net library, download that and add it as a reference in your development project. That should be it.

Answer 2

It is possible to download a pre-compiled MSVC binary. Then it is just a matter of telling Visual Studio where to find Allegro's *.h headers and *.lib library files. Also the Allegro DLL's need to be somewhere in the system path.

The Allegro wiki has instructions for configuring a Visual Studio Express 2008 project...

• with Allegro 4 (stable version)
• with Allegro 5 (development version)

Check out the related question for some other useful Allegro development resources.