Re: Building on Win32 - the real problem

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" <[email protected]> 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.

>
>
>
> --
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> corridors.
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