Re: Building on Win32 - the real problem

Oh forgot to mention ... Alien::SDL will  extract the deps to C:/ 
strawberry/ . So if you strawberry is installed some place else it may  
not work.

Kartik Thakore

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. 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 ([email protected])
> Tel: +47 90077162
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> corridors.
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> Shock