Yet again I have decided to try building SDL on Win32 and yet again I have not even made it to the actual building. Why? Because only about half the required libraries can be downloaded for Windows.
smpeg-0.4.5 The SDL webpage refers to http://www.icculus.org/smpeg/ which states the following: You can check out smpeg from Subversion via these simple instructions: svn co svn://svn.icculus.org/smpeg/trunk smpeg Unfortunately, there are two problems here. First of all, the 'svn' command is meaningless to anyone not familiar with Subversion. Secondly, even those who know what Subversion is and actually manage to download and install a client and check out the files... the only thing you will get is the source code, not the Win32 library. If you don't know how to compile it, you're out of luck. SDL_sound The SDL webpage refers to http://icculus.org/SDL_sound/ Now, just in case anyone actually succeeded in getting past Subversion, they decided to use Mercurial for this: To download SDL_sound via Mercurial: hg clone http://hg.icculus.org/icculus/SDL_sound/ ...or, for the stable (non-development) branch: hg clone -r stable-1.0 http://hg.icculus.org/icculus/SDL_sound/ And ofcourse, you'll still only get the source code, not the Win32 library. SDL_gfx The SDL webpage refers to http://www.ferzkopp.net/joomla/content/view/19/14/ How refreshing to actually see a tarball ready for download. Ofcourse, most perl devs know how to extract one, but again... this is the source code only, not the actual library. SDL_svg The SDL webpage refers to http://www.linuxmotors.com/SDL_svg Actually managed to get stuff compiled for the other libs? Well okay, try to get past this then... this time you only get to download the linux library, not the source code. Muahahaha! SDL_vnc The SDL webpage refers to http://www.ferzkopp.net/~aschiffler/Software/SDL_vnc/index.html which is a broken link. Still don't give up do you? OK so you navigate the site, and again you find a tarball with source code only. Until these hurdles are solved, the number of people both willing and able to TEST SDL-Perl on Windows will remain stable at near zero, and the irregular attempts to resurrect the project are almost guaranteed to fail. -- Andreas Lund (fl...@atc.no) Tel: +47 90077162 #include <disclaimer.h> "Look at you hacker, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect immortal machine?" -- SHODAN, System Shock
