in reply to Help with SDL-Perl for Windows

The error message is telling you that the dll is not located where perl is expecting it to be. That means that the module was not correctly installed.

How did you install the module?

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Re: Re: Help with SDL-Perl for Windows
by Trag (Monk) on May 24, 2004 at 18:48 UTC
    I used the ExtUtils::Install module as per Crazyinsomniac's instructions here. I didn't use PPM because Crazyinsomniac's version didn't seem to come with a ppd file. The .ppd link on the page was just a string of text about the module.
    By the way, I forgot to mention that the dll brought up by the Perl interpreter (not the one in the error window) was exactly where it was supposed to be, in C:\perl\site\lib\auto\sdl_perl. 


    our @item = reverse (114, 101, 107, 99, 97, 104, 32, 108, 
114, 101, 80, 32, 114, 101, 104, 116, 111, 110, 97, 32, 116, 115, 117,
+ 74); local $my = reverse ")meti@\ ,rhc (pam tnirp";eval $my;

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      I used the ExtUtils::Install module as per Crazyinsomniac's instructions here.
      Why did you ignore the rest of the instructions?
      I didn't use PPM because Crazyinsomniac's version didn't seem to come with a ppd file. The .ppd link on the page was just a string of text about the module.
      You are wrong 
      C:\>GET http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm/5.8/SDL_Perl.ppd
<SOFTPKG NAME="SDL_Perl" VERSION="2,1,0,0">
    <TITLE>SDL_Perl</TITLE>
    <ABSTRACT>Simple DirectMedia Layer for Perl</ABSTRACT>
    <AUTHOR>David J. Goehrig &lt;DGOEHRIG@cpan.org&gt;</AUTHOR>
    <IMPLEMENTATION>
        <INSTALL EXEC="PPM_PERL" HREF="http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.
+org/perl/ppm/scripts/install_sdl">install_sdl</INSTALL>
        <PERLCORE VERSION="5,008000,0,0" />
        <OS NAME="MSWin32" />
        <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8" />
        <CODEBASE HREF="SDL_Perl-2.1.0.tar.gz" />
    </IMPLEMENTATION>
</SOFTPKG>

C:\>

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      MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
      I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
      ** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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        Whoops. I didn't realize that ppd files were XML based. I think it works now. Thanks 


        our @item = reverse (114, 101, 107, 99, 97, 104, 32, 108, 
114, 101, 80, 32, 114, 101, 104, 116, 111, 110, 97, 32, 116, 115, 117,
+ 74); local $my = reverse ")meti@\ ,rhc (pam tnirp";eval $my;

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      I followed your link to Crazyinsomniacs repository and found that right below the SDL.gz file, there is a .ppd file. 

      SDL_Perl-2.1.0.tar.gz 139,279 16:27:42 20-Apr-2004

SDL_Perl.ppd [ C K ] 572 13:05:39 20-Apr-2004

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      However, I'm not sure that it will help as SDL_perl.dll has dependancy upon 6 other .dlls that do not appear in the .gz file. SDL_GFX.dll, SDL_IMAGE.dll, SDL_MIXER.dll, SDL_NET.dll, SDL_TTF.dll and SMPEG.dll.

      I can only assume that these form some part of an independant package or more likely C-library, that you will need to locate, download and install on your system.

      Having never used SDL, I can't help further. You'd best hope that CrazyInsomniac will step in here:0

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