allegro with png's on linux

[axtyax]

I am trying to make a game with allegro and i am getting very frustrated that i can only use bmp's

so if somebody could just walk me through how to be able to use png's with the allegro library, that would be awesome.

THANKS!

[NoXzema]

There are 2 ways:

Use the image addon: http://alleg.sourceforge.net/a5docs/5.0.10/image.html#al_init_image_addon

Or create your own format handlers: http://alleg.sourceforge.net/a5docs/5.0.10/graphics.html#al_register_bitmap_loader