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in thread Help with SDL-Perl for Windows

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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Re: Re: Re: Help with SDL-Perl for Windows
by PodMaster (Abbot) on May 24, 2004 at 19:50 UTC
    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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Re: Re: Re: Help with SDL-Perl for Windows
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 24, 2004 at 19:03 UTC

    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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