Re: Building on Win32 - the real problem

Ok give it a try now.

Kartik Thakore

On 30-Aug-09, at 4:20 AM, Kartik Thakore <[email protected]>  
wrote:

> 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.
>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andreas Lund ([email protected])
>> 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