Re: Building on Win32 - the real problem

On Sunday 30 August 2009 00:45:15 Andreas Lund 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.

That brings up a good point.  SDL_perl 2.x builds a monolithic XS which 
attempts to link against plenty of SDL-related libraries, such as SDL_ttf and 
SDL_gfx.

Even though distribution becomes slightly more complex, I suggest that 
SDL_perl 3.x build separate XS files for these supplementary libraries.  
Perhaps they could even be separate CPAN distributions.

It might be worth considering something similar for the OpenGL components as 
well.

-- c