Re: Building on Win32 - the real problem

I was talking with David about this. I am keeping it in experimental until
all modules are done. Thanks for the help on reddit!
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 4:48 PM, chromatic <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>