The way sdlperl is set up (Or at least used to be, i haven't made any new downloads yet), you have to have ALL of the additional .dlls for an sdlperl app to run (sdlmixer.dlls, glut32.dlls png.dlls etc etc etc etc!). I can understand why david originally did this, for ease of coding, everything is already plugged and ready for use, but it's a pain when it comes to distributing your app. Using the perl 'compiler' from indigo soft, you can feasabley distribute sdlperl apps on windows just as easily as any other sdlapp, but with the added hinderance for about 10 dlls.
My request is that whoever is maintaining the code, to change this behavior so that these dlls are only required to be present if the application enables them (use SDL::TTF or something maybe?) instead of the otherway around that it is now. I would attempt this myself but I don't know a single word of XS code.
As far as nitpicking the tutorial, it is really good to see one, i was thinking of doing one myself as well. But I have a big gripe, why are those 3 seperate tutorials? Wouldn't it make much more sense to have them as one? Each tutorial is only about 10 or lines long and the rest is fluff. IMO it would be much more effective to shove them all together... especially since they are all related and anyone who uses SDL will need to know the concepts to blitting images.
No one has Dave's original tutorial huh? I had it on my hard drive but my motherboard blew and the guy at the pc shop wiped out my hard drive against my will.....
Is there a list or anything of any active sdlperl projects going on?
Hi all,
I've been applying patches from 1.20 betas to the latest released version (1.19.x) in our Subversion repository on perl.org. Along the way, I decided that the best way to get other people involved in the project is to write some tutorials.
I have three so far. They're pretty basic and only deal with graphics, but they exist and they seem decent enough to me. You can find them off of the main site:
http://sdl.perl.org/
Please let me know if you have any suggestions or corrections, especially as I'll shortly reach the limits of my knowledge and will have to do a lot more experimenting before I can write more.
Enjoy, -- c
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