cygwin, perl, sdl and problems with cpan

parasew has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

there were already some threads on perlmonks about cygwin, but actually i still have problems using perl (5.8) and especially SDL, PDL on a windowsXP machine. i am planning to develop SDL and perl-tk applications which will run on a linux machine later.
this issue was discussed on the cygwin mailinglist before.
actually cpan doesn't make any trouble, it just looks like SDL,PDL and some other libraries make troubles. installing the modules by hand (perl Makefile.pl && make && make install) works for some, but not for the main modules, i want to install...

SDL_perl

syntax error at Makefile.win32 line 33, near ");"
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PDL

cpoly.c:12:20: values.h: No such file or directory
cpoly.c: In function `mcon':
cpoly.c:753: `MINDOUBLE' undeclared (first use in this function)
cpoly.c:753: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
cpoly.c:753: for each function it appears in.)
cpoly.c:754: `MAXDOUBLE' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [cpoly.o] Fehler 1
make[2]: Verlassen des Verzeichnisses Verzeichnis »/usr/src/perl-cygwi
+n-modules/
__additional/PDL-2.3.4/Basic/Math«
make[1]: *** [subdirs] Fehler 2
make[1]: Verlassen des Verzeichnisses Verzeichnis »/usr/src/perl-cygwi
+n-modules/
__additional/PDL-2.3.4/Basic«
make: *** [subdirs] Fehler 2
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anyone here has this modules running on cygwin?

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Re: cygwin, perl, sdl and problems with cpan
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Jan 06, 2003 at 03:03 UTC

Now, actually looking at and realizing that it's perl code, it's missing a ) at line 33 right before );.

You should submit a patch for the makefile, as it's code that doesn't compile.

update: Further examination of Makefile.win32 reveals


#
# Windows configuration detection
#  ( Cywin for unsupported, currently only VC++ 6 )
#

update:

ftp://sdlperl.org/SDL_perl/win32/readme.win32.txt

MJD says you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!
** The Third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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Re: cygwin, perl, sdl and problems with cpan
by emcb (Beadle) on Jan 06, 2003 at 06:42 UTC

I've managed to get past the error's with these patches. I've created a new file Makefile.cygwin based upon Makefile.netbsd. As long as you have everything else you need you should be able to build the SDL:: module.

< Makefile.PL.diff >

--- Makefile.PL    2003-01-06 06:25:03.000000000 +0000
+++ Makefile.PL.new    2003-01-06 06:24:45.000000000 +0000
@@ -9,4 +9,5 @@
     win       => "Makefile.win32",
     freebsd => "Makefile.freebsd",
+  cygwin  => "Makefile.cygwin",
 );
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< Makefile.cygwin.diff >

--- Makefile.netbsd    2003-01-06 06:13:44.000000000 +0000
+++ Makefile.cygwin    2003-01-06 06:18:47.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env perl 
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
 use strict;
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ $sdl_libs =~ s/-Wl,-rpath,(\/usr\/pkg)*\
 
 @dirs=(
-    '/usr/pkg/include',
-    '/usr/pkg/include/SDL', 
-    '/usr/pkg/include/smpeg',
+    '/usr/include',
+    '/usr/include/SDL', 
+    '/usr/include/smpeg',
     '/usr/X11R6/include',
     '/usr/X11R6/include/GL', 
@@ -88,4 +88,5 @@ if  ( $ext{GLU}{exists} ) {
 
 my %options = (
+    'PERL'  => '/usr/bin/perl',
     'NAME'    => 'SDL_perl',
     'VERSION_FROM' => 'SDL.pm',
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