In seven or eight months of trying, I've personally never found a sensible answer to any of these questions.
Most of those questions you can answer progamatically (and some you don't even have to answer), but asking the user sounds sensible to me (with shortcuts like perl Build.PL --opengl=-lmesa --smpeg --gfx ...).

What isn't sensible (imho) is something like 

package SDL::Build::MSWin32; ...

sub find_header
{
    for my $key (qw( LIBS PATH ))
    {
        die "Environment variable $key is empty\n" unless $ENV{$key};
    }

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That is needless death right there (besides, its always LIB and only optionally LIBS). Since sdl-config won't exist on win32 (when dealing with MSVS), makes no sense to die if it doesn't exist, especially if SDL.h/SDL.lib area already in the include/lib path.

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.

In reply to Re^2: SDL_Perl for Win32? by PodMaster
in thread SDL_Perl for Win32? by jryan

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