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Here you can download releases of the Allegro 5 library.

Instructions on how to build Allegro for each of the supported platforms are included in the source packages, either in the README files, or in the docs/build subdirectory.

Additional installation instructions can be found on the wiki.

Allegro 5.2 source releases

Allegro 5.2 supports Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, etc.), Windows, macOS, Android and iPhone. Allegro 5.2 is source compatible but not binary compatible with Allegro 5.0. You can read the full change log.

Filename	Size	Description
allegro-5.2.9.1.zip	11.0M	Source code for all platforms in Windows friendly format.
allegro-5.2.9.1.tar.gz	9.5M	Source code for all platforms in Unix friendly format.
allegro-5.2.9.1.7z	8.1M	Source code for all platforms in Windows friendly format.
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Windows Binaries

There are several official and unofficial ways to obtain Windows binaries of Allegro releases. See the wiki tutorial for installation instructions.

Site	Description
Nuget	The `Allegro` package on Nuget contains the official binaries in a format that is easy to use from MSVC.
Allegro 5.2 binary packages	Allegro releases on GitHub also come with several binary distributions of Allegro for Windows.
Allegro 5 dependencies	The `allegro_winpkg` GitHub project has releases that come with the pre-compiled Allegro dependencies for Windows.
www.allegro.cc/files	Matthew Leverton hosts Windows binary packages for many different compilers. The 5.0 binaries are produced by a different process from the standard build system. Unofficial.
devpaks.org	Michal Molhanec mantains a Devpak repository, where you can get a package of the precompiled library for MinGW and Dev-C++. Unofficial.

MacOS X binaries

Allegro 5 can be found in the allegro package on homebrew. See the wiki tutorial for more details.

Ubuntu PPA

For Linux distributions based on Ubuntu (and Ubuntu itself), you can download binary packages for Allegro 5 by adding the a PPA to your software sources, and then installing the relevant packages. See the wiki tutorial for more details.

IPhone binaries

Currently you need to compile Allegro from source for iPhone. These binaries allow you to avoid having to do that for the dependencies.

Filename	Size	Description
freetype-iphone-2.3.12-bin.zip	1.3M	Freetype libraries and headers compiled for IPhone. Drop these into the deps folder and CMake should pick them up.
physfs-1.0.2-iphone.zip	165K	PhysFS libraries and headers compiled for IPhone. Drop these into the deps folder and CMake should pick them up.
vorbis-iphone.zip	280K	Ogg Vorbis libraries and headers compiled for IPhone. Drop these into the deps folder and CMake should pick them up.

Miscellaneous files

Filename	Size	Description
sal.h	8k	This header is necessary if you want to use the official DirectX SDK with MinGW. Place it somewhere Allegro build system can find it (e.g. MinGW’s include directory.