Hi,
Andreas which version of SDL perl did you try for windows? If you
would have gotten v2.2.2.5 (sorry for the stupid version names), it
would have required Alien::SDL v0.02 which should have gotten the bare
minimum of deps needed on windows.
Moving on,
On 30-Aug-09, at 3:45 AM, "Andreas Lund" <fl...@atc.no> wrote:
Yet again I have decided to try building SDL on Win32 and yet again
I have not
even made it to the actual building.
What failed in building?
Why? Because only about half the required
libraries can be downloaded for Windows.
Some of these deps are not required.
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.
This is downloaded for you with Alien::SDL
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.
This library I haven't gotten around to make for windows.
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.
Same as above.
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!
This dep is not actually used (I haven't seen thing wrong with not
having it). If you are seeing error messages please post a bug report.
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.
Same as above.
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.
Thanks for the vote of confidence.
--
Andreas Lund (fl...@atc.no)
Tel: +47 90077162
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