Wow! Thank you for providing these, Edgar!

Thanks for the work.
Is there any binaries for Android?

I myself can build for MingW but am still stuck with Android build...

Thank.
It requires Android Studio, Java, and Maven?
Is there any way to use pure JNI (pure C++) to compile an Allegro rided Android application?
I've ever tried SFML Android, it doesn't require those tools, and I can just use Android.mk to build SFML itself and also my game, though it's Android support not quite good.

Google deprecated the old NDK tools, so instead of Ant and ndk-build you now use Gradle and CMake. You do not need Android Studio at all, the steps will basically be identical without it. Just when the instructions say:

Create those files yourself instead

Nice work as always! Thanks.

I'm curious, which MinGW do you use? That is, where did you download it?

The Allegro version being reported by this Allegro is 5.2.3 by the way. (deja vu... didn't we have this happen before?)

Good memory, I forgot about that, but nope. Just to test this for you, I done clean compiles of my Deluxe Pacman 2 game (Allegro 5) and had zero issues (just the wrong version, which only shows up in my debug info). I done a clean compile on my Deluxe Pacman 1 game as well with your Allegro 4 libs you also linked to and also no issues.

All in all, seems like a successful build. Many thanks, and God bless for your efforts.

Good to know. There's a few MinGW builds out there so I was curious which you went with. Thanks.

Edit: Oh, and the compatibility issues I had the last time, I believe were my fault in the first place for mixing up versions. I am more careful about that now.

Edit2: I tried out another Allegro 5.2.2 build for MinGW 6.2.0, 32 and 64 bit versions, got compile errors galore so... sticking to Edgar's build. Just so you know.

Yeah, I tried the setup from https://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/616753 and it didn't work.

I now have a new problem. I don't know if it is related to me trying that other build out or not but now when I run my Deluxe Pacman 2 game, after doing a clean build with your library, it compiles okay, but it won't load in any of the Truetype Fonts. I have them stored in a PAK file (ZIP) I access using physfs. I have other files in there that are loaded in okay, BMP fonts I also have. But the TTF give errors.

I tried hiding the folder that I normally put Allegro into (a separate folder than my MinGW install). I put ONLY your build files into the MinGW32 directory directly (normally I don't do that, so nothing else is in there, it's the same MinGW32 you provided as well) but still a no go. So... perhaps this was a problem that was already in your build that i somehow missed?

The thing is, I haven't been programming my game AT ALL... so I haven't changed anything. I even went over the link order of the libraries and made certain they are in the order you listed (note: physfs was not listed in the libs you mentioned, nor was dsound, though they were needed to compile).

I haven't tried reverting back to an older build of yours yet, but I may soon if there is nothing else I can do.

EDIT: I just recompiled using your Allegro 5.2.1 build you released before this and it compiled and ran fine. This one compiles fine, but won't load TTF. BMP fonts loaded and displayed fine.

The game works perfectly with Allegro 5.2.1. And my game is statically linked. It isn't physfs or the BMP fonts would not load either, but they do. And if it was my setup, Allegro 5.2.1 wouldn't work either.

Sorry, I just tested them all. All work except ex_physfs. It doesn't work. I tested the same ones with your older 5.2.1 build and they all work (including physfs) with it. So the problem appears to be with physfs. Which still seems strange as my bitmap font loads with physfs but not the ttf. That should help narrow the problem down anyhow.

It kind of bugs me that there is no error message when ex_physfs fails at all.

I always build my debug version with the debug version of the library. But I compile using what you provided.

Actually, I just realized I can attach the allegro.log here for you to examine. I just deleted it, then recompiled and reran it so this log is fresh.

I'll attach it to this.

I noticed the following line in that log...

font E C:\LIBS5303Build\allegro5\addons\ttf\ttf.c:891 al_load_ttf_font_stretch_f [ 3.17001] Reading Fonts/Verdana_Bold.ttf failed. Freetype error code 85

edit: I noticed someone else had a similar problem years ago, but they had no response to their post and I don't know if they ever got it resolved.

https://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/614261

1) Replaced verdana bold with a new copy of it from the same source, even changed the filename. Same problem.
2) Tried loading the font from outside the ZIP file, from a normal folder and it loaded no problem. The very next font that tried to load from the ZIP file failed, a totally different font. Also note that I successfully loaded a BMP font from the same ZIP file without problems.
3) It's not just THIS font, it's ANY TTF. I tried a totally different TTF. They load fine from a normal folder, they do not load from the ZIP. Yet Allegro 5.2.1 loads them just fine from all locations. I ONLY compile with the libraries YOU supplied each time, with the same compiler you supplied. The program is compiled with the exact same settings each time, both with Allegro 5.2.1 and with the version in this forum. Yet I have zero problems with 5.2.1, so something changed between versions.

Also, note my previous message where someone had the exact same problem with the exact same divide by zero error back in 2014 (I linked the message) so this is nothing new I guess.

a) Which version of Freetype did you use for Allegro 5.2.1? Was it the same version this time, compiled the same way?
b) Which version of Physfs did you use with 5.2.1? Was it the same version this time?

Here's a snippet of code;

I added in comments. Everything else I load from the ZIP file loads just fine. I load in a special bitmap font from the ZIP file without problems, it's what you see when you see "Loading..." when you run the game, it displays no problem. ONLY the TTFs will not load from the ZIP.

Oh, and those are mainly just fonts I think I grabbed from the Windows/fonts folder. I have since been using GNU Free fonts for newer projects (http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/).

And obviously I got the interface right or how would it have worked fine with Allegro 5.2.1?! Seriously, this is NOT on my end. Nothing changed other than me recompiling with the newest version, and I recompiled with the compiler you supplied and the libraries you supplied only. Otherwise, there was no change. As I said, it worked before. And the example physfs program doesn't work and I didn't have anything to do with compiling that. That alone should prove it is not on my end.

I'm not concerned anyhow. I'll stick with using 5.2.1.