Decided to try and build allegro so I could gain access to the python bindings that are not included with the binaries(see my earlier post). I'm using the allegro wiki entry on building allegro as a guide, and everything was going well until I tried to use msys to build the Vorbis library. It gives me the following error when I try to use ./configure,

"checking pkg-config...no
checking for ogg...no
could not run ogg test program...the test program failed to compile or link. See the config.log file for details, this usually means ogg was incorrectly installed..."

I did a search in these forums, and in google, and the only solution I could find seemed to be relevant to Linux, whereas I am on Windows 7. I cannot find the config.log file, so I'm a bit in the dark. I have followed the wiki page's instructions to the letter, so ogg should be installed correctly. I have the folders for ogg's lib, bin, share, and include in my local folder. Has anyone run into this issue on these forums who could help?

EDIT: I think I found a solution. Did another google search and found what led me to the solution in an 8 year old forum. I'll repeat it here just in case someone else runs into this issue.

Libvorbis needs to find where msys installed libogg, in order to do this use the ./configure --with-ogg=prefix command in the libvorbis folder, where prefix is where libogg was installed. Since I was following the allegro wiki and ogg was installed into the default /usr/local folder, and then I put the lib, bin, share and include folders in a folder called libogg, the command was

./configure --with-ogg=/usr/local/libogg

after that libvorbis installed fine

If you use the prefix argument to configure, then you can install directly to your MinGW installation.

./configure --prefix=/c/mingw