Well I've spent too many of the past 48 trying to get SDL Perl up an running on my PowerBook. I will totally admit SDL Perl was truly broken on the Mac platform. What this effort has resulted in though, is something rather different. I'm a few hours away from putting together an SDL Perl.app bundle that would have everything you need to distribute a basic SDL Perl application. SDL Perl now has enough internal support for things like networking, image manipulation, sound, video, input devices, and the like, that you don't really need much installed to get a useful system. Statically linking libperl, libSDL, libSDL_*, and the like can actually produce a pretty portable distribution.
Anyways, I learned some valuable lessons. 1.) Trying to get SDL Perl working with Apple's distribution is braindead, as you quickly run into CPAN depenency hell, 2.) Trying to get SDL Perl working with XCode is a nightmare, 3.) Running SDL Perl using even a user compiled perl requires one jumps through insane hoops like using CamelBones, and you still don't get a fully functional app without a ton of code. 4.) It is far easier on the MacOS X platform (and I would also suspect this is true of Win32) to build a new interpreter and just set your file handles accordingly. So if I get some more free time any time soon, the current plan is to release 2.2.0 with 3 major changes: 1.) Linux / Win32 / MacOS - "Application Bundles" with embedded perl interpreter o MacOSX - native app bundle "SDL Perl.app" o Linux - pseudo app bundle (aka perl script with emebbed tarball, I'd love Rox AppDirs but who uses them :) o Win32 - ??? (worst case same as linux) 2.) SDL_Sound and SDL_svg support integrated into the OO layer (SDL_vnc if I can get it to work) 3.) SDL_RWops exposed at a number of level I'm hoping to have a Frozen-Bubble.app that doesn't require you have any additional software installed to run within a month. If anyone is interested or has any leads on creating portable Linux application bundles let me know. FWIW, I had to install 16+ libraries just to get the full SDL_Perl-2.1.xfeature set working. Felt like I was building GNOME :) Dave -- "The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle" -Stapp's Ironical Paradox
