Hey all ! I'm Ash and this is my first post here



The short question :
I am trying to install SDL::SMPEG or more precisely (Perl-)SDL with SDL::SMPEG in it, both from cpan and from the repository of my distribution (Arch Linux)

SDL seems to be configured to not install SMPEG by default

For example in the test run of the cpan install, it says :
"smpeg support not compiled"
Looking in the sources of the test script, it is right there : 
if ( SDL::Config->has('smpeg') ) {
...
} else {
    plan( skip_all => ( SDL::Config->has('smpeg') ? '' : ' smpeg suppo
+rt not compiled' ) );

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And indeed, it fails in finding files when i add "use SDL::SMPEG" in my script

So i'm looking into how i can change the config to explicitly DO install it



The long question :
I am building a Perl SDL application, which is supposed to run under X11 (on Linux)

In this application i want to show a video (available in a file) on the screen, with controls such as play, stop, seek to time etc. called from the script

I'm willing to consider all possible ways of making it, not only SDL::SMPEG, so if you can suggest something else go for it

Best Wishes - Ash

In reply to Installing SDL::SMPEG by Ashx

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