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I tried to get SDL to work on Win XP and did not succeed. I would rather not use the OpenGL module on Windows XP and SDL on Xandros for the same project.

Therefore, dear monks, I would appreciate any alternative idea. By the way, I already did some searches on CPAN without finding an appropriate module, but maybe I overlooked a gem or two :-)

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by jettero (Monsignor) on Jun 03, 2008 at 01:40 UTC
    Why doesn't the SDL work in XP? How didn't you succeed? Is it impossible or did you just give up?

    -Paul

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      I just tried a few hours, so I would not say it is impossible. Right now I am not at home at my computer, but I remember an error message "cannot find sdl-config" when trying to install the SDL module from CPAN. I did not find which configuration was missing. The next step, of course, would be to look at the module source, but I was already a bit tired of SDL at that point. Do you have a suggestion?

      By the way, (on Windows XP) I am using Strawberry Perl 5.10.0.1.

      José

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        You'll need the sdl-config in your path. ExtUtils::PkgConfig will use it to configure your libs and deps. It's pure magic really. But you'll definitely need the libsdl devkit installed... probably in a path with no spaces (unless your skills are more advanced than mine). I find win32 a bit developer unfriendly, but it can be done if you get all the right things installed.

        -Paul

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