./devel/allegro, Allegro game programming library

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Branch: pkgsrc-2012Q3, Version: 4.4.2, Package name: allegro-4.4.2, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Allegro is a portable library mainly aimed at video game and multimedia
programming, originally started by Shawn Hargreaves for the DJGPP compiler
in a mixture of C and assembler.

According to the Oxford Companion to Music, Allegro is the Italian for
"quick, lively, bright". It is also a recursive acronym which stands for
"Allegro Low LEvel Game ROutines".

Cross-platform support

o Dos (DJGPP, Watcom)
o Unix (Linux, *BSD, Irix, Solaris, Darwin)
o Windows (MSVC, MinGW, Cygwin, Borland)
o BeOS
o QNX
o MacOS X


Required to run:
[x11/xcursor] [x11/libXpm] [graphics/png] [graphics/glu] [audio/libvorbis] [multimedia/libogg]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/x11-links] [x11/fixesproto4] [x11/xextproto] [x11/xproto] [x11/inputproto] [x11/renderproto] [devel/cmake] [devel/pkg-config]

Master sites:

SHA1: ae0c15d2cb6b0337ef388dc98cefc620883720df
RMD160: a6f6a03d6748230dfb5f306d1a05ef45ffa49f42
Filesize: 4565.334 KB

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