did you tried to install SDL on your own and set the env. variable SDL_INST_DIR ?

i read in the doc that the Alien module should try thing in order and maybe is not able to find something to downolad and build for windows.

I'm very interested: please share your progresses (which game? I'm interested in this too ;)

PS in a positive installation test I see:

# Build option used:
#     Binaries Win/32bit SDL-1.2.14 (extended, 20100704) RECOMMENDED
#     (gfx, image, mixer, net, smpeg, ttf, sound, svg, rtf, Pango)
# URL:
#     http://strawberryperl.com/package/kmx/sdl/Win32_SDL-1.2.14-exten
+ded-bin_20100704.zip
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perhaps a good choice to have it installed correctly

L*

Thanks. The game is a remake of uncharted waters2.

The site libsdl.org offers a few options (SDL1 or SDL2, Runtime Binaries or DEV Libraries ). How should I choose?

I downloaded SDL1's DEV Libraries to 'E:\A Downloads\SDL DEV\SDL-1.2.15' and modified Build.PL in Alien-SDL-1.446 as shown in the following code.

Line 160 was added because SDL_config.h appears under 'E:\A Downloads\SDL DEV\SDL-1.2.15\include' instead of 'bin\sdl-config'.

Result: SDL_INST_DIR could be recognized but SDL_config.h couldn't.

###### code change in Build.pl ########

148  $ENV{SDL_INST_DIR} = 'E:\A Downloads\SDL SOURCE\SDL-1.2.15';
  
160  elsif($rv = check_config_script(File::Spec->catdir(@sdlinst, 'inc
+lude'))) {
        push @candidates, $rv;
      }
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###### log ########

checking SDL_INST_DIR env var... yes, E:\A Downloads\SDL DEV\SDL-1.2.15

checking for config script... no

checking for config script... no

checking for config script... no

checking for config script... no

checking for prebuilt binaries... no

You have the following options

:

1 Quit installation

The site libsdl.org offers a few options ...

There are SDL binaries for Strawberry Perl available at http://strawberryperl.com/package/kmx/sdl
I've used the oldest packages there to successfully install 32-bit and 64-bit builds of Alien-SDL-1.446 and SDL-2.546 on Strawberry Perl in the past. I think your best bet would be to grab the most recent package which is http://strawberryperl.com/package/kmx/sdl/64bit_SDL2_20130305.zip (or http://strawberryperl.com/package/kmx/sdl/32bit_SDL2_20130305.zip if you have a 32-bit build of Strawberry Perl).

Looking at my old build scripts I can see that I had to set $ENV{SDL_INST_DIR} to point to the correct directory, but I can't see that anything particularly tricky was required.

Cheers,
Rob