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I suggest you ask about that on the sdl-perl mailing list. (I assume there is one.) Most likely, very few people build SDL for win32 since it's so disagreeable to build packages there. I tried it for a short while myself and I ran into various problems with the block of code +/- 5 lines around line 154.

It seems like something the maintainers would be willing to help fix.

-Paul

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Re^8: WANTED: Simple & portable graphics to use with Perl
by jds17 (Pilgrim) on Jun 03, 2008 at 19:28 UTC
    Thanks, Paul. I will follow your suggestion and look for an sdl-perl mailing list. Windows is not my favourite OS, but I use it quite often (e.g. for work...), so even though it's sometimes painful, I would like to get things running there, too.

      Yeah, I'm not saying windows is bad or that I don't use it -- although technically I hate it -- I'm just saying it's developer unfriendly. I use it quite a bit myself and even built an active repo: https://voltar.org/active/. I find building things under win32 to be pretty painful so I lost interest in strawberry really fast (favoring downloading PPDs instead).

      But I'm under the impression that you can install active ppds under strawberry, so ... perhaps I should give it another look.

      -Paul

        I could not find any active perl-sdl mailing list, so I posted on the sdl mailing list (http://lists.libsdl.org/pipermail/sdl-libsdl.org/2008-June/) which seems quite busy.

        I found some ppds for Perl 5.8 which refused to install under 5.10 and I really don't want to go back to 5.8.

        Also, I don't want to use ActivePerl, since I am happy using Strawberry. In any case, SDL seems to be broken for ActivePerl (see http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.8-S.html and http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.10-S.html).