(ALL) Dependency Compiling Issues - vs2015, x64, osx, linux about zquestclassic HOT 10 CLOSED

In my experience it's the combination of Allegro and Windows that breaks things. They just cannot seem to get along. Example given, although NOGDI is already defined, for some reason Codeblocks wants me to define it myself.

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The (main) issue with VS2015 is that Allegro 4 was written at a time when Microsoft did not care about standards. Allegro 5 is now the maintained one, with Allegro 4 only being updated, if at all, for emergencies.

I still say we should upgrade to Allegro 5, but I guess that's just wishful thinking.

As far as unity builds...I'll admit I'm still not fully convinced of them. For cmake, it shouldn't matter too much.

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I'm almost done compiling for an arm computer (Raspberry pi 2), but i need libzcsound.so, wich isn't avaible for arm machines. Could you guys release the source of libzcsound so i can finish compile, please?

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libzcsound isn't actually needed anymore. It's just zcsound.cpp and zcsoundd.cpp compiled and linked with the other sound libs. You can compile those two files directly into zc if you wish.

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I disagree, no upgrade. Replace it entirely. Allegro has been around since the early 90s. Sure the library rewrite is decent. But to be honest. I hate the thing and using OpenGL directly would be a much more feasible option.

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Are you saying that you might be able to compile ZC as 64-bit?

Will it still be using Allegro 4.x, and will it still be using DirectDraw? If so, maybe I should start trying to compile DXGL as 64-bit?

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Hasn't happened yet and it's not a huge priority or anything.

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And I haven't tried to build DXGL in 64-bit mode either. Probably will blow up good on the first 10 tries or so.

As for it not being a huge priority to compile ZC in 64-bit I don't see any advantage, as I don't see how a ZC game could eat up that much RAM.

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Yep. I'm sure ZC would blow up as well. :P Someone was trying to get a linux64 to compile, but I don't know anything about that.

I doubt there's any chance for a 64-bit release anytime soon though. I believe some windows 8 users are using DXGL to run fullscreen; I assume the same for windows 10 as compatability gets worse with every new windows OS.

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By the way, I thought Windows 10 DirectDraw was better than 8.x; they fixed the nasty framerate bug late in the beta.

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