You can get the latest development version from Sourceforge via
read only CVS.
The server is cvs.alleg.sourceforge.net, and the module to checkout
is named allegro. In short, these are the commands you can issue to
get the whole Allegro tree (hit return when you are prompted for
a password):
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.alleg.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/alleg login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.alleg.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/alleg co allegro
After getting the source tree, you are meant to run the fix* script
file for your platform as well as reading your platform dependent
readme file (example: docs/build/unix.txt for Unix users). There you have
instructions to build Allegro.
If you need help with CVS, please check your CVS documentation first. You
can also read a cvs introduction by Laurence Withers, which explains how to get
and install successfully the CVS Allegro version from Sourceforge. Get it
from here.
You can also check Sourceforge's
documentation project.
Apart from the CVS, Sourceforge offers other useful services and informations
you may want to check. Allegro's project page at SourceForge is
http://sourceforge.net/projects/alleg/.
These are snapshots of the Allegro CVS repository. The snapshots here
have been wrapped up like any normal WIP releases and are ready to compile.
Keep in mind that since these are snapshots and not actual releases,
they contain new code which has undergone little testing. Therefore
don't be surprised if you can't even compile it or if it gives you a
core dump, a bluescreen etc. So if stability is important for you, then
you should rather be using one of the WIPs.
Snapshots will be released regularly every week. The goal of these snapshot
releases is:
- To provide users unfamiliar with CVS, access to the latest Allegro
improvements.
- Increase the amount of testing that is done between each WIP release.
End-user feedback is important for the Allegro developers in order to
maintain and improve the quality of Allegro.
The snapshots of the Allegro CVS are generated dynamically only at Sourceforge,
and this means that you will have to go there to download them.
Please follow this link:
http://alleg.sourceforge.net/cvs.html.
