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<h1><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="Simple_DirectMedia_Library_Bindings_for_Perl"
>Simple DirectMedia Library Bindings for Perl</a></h1>

<p>Welcome to the new SDL Perl pages,
graciously hosted by Perl.org.</p>

<h2><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="Latest_News"
>Latest News</a></h2>

<p><b>28 August 2009</b> SDL_Perl is at v2.3</p>

<p>The master branch is stable at v2.3 .
This release is disable for windows for now.
This version provides a lot of critical bugfixes from the previous release on cpan.
Read the CHANGELOG.</p>

<p>Work is being done on v2.4 to add major over haul for memleaks.
The bleeding edge code is available from <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_Perl/" class="podlinkurl"
>http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_Perl/</a>.
The experimental branch is where the v2.4 will be developed.</p>

<p>Also <a href="http://frozen-bubble.org/" class="podlinkurl"
>http://frozen-bubble.org/</a> is being migrated to CPAN as Games::FrozenBubble.
This is being tracked on our new tracker <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/" class="podlinkurl"
>http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/</a>.
We have opened a ticket for it<a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/ticket/2" class="podlinkurl"
>http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/ticket/2</a>.</p>

<p>Also the <a href="https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=SDL_perl" class="podlinkurl"
>https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=SDL_perl</a> is active again.
We are cleaning up bugs and responding to reporters.
See <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/SDL_Perl-v2.2.2/lib/SDL.pm" class="podlinkurl"
>http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/SDL_Perl-v2.2.2/lib/SDL.pm</a>.
Please report any strange behavior to the bug tracker.
--Kartik</p>

<h2><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="Tutorials_Online!"
>Tutorials Online!</a></h2>

<p>Updated and Working coming soon!!!</p>

<p>Of course,
if you grab a snapshot and install it,
not only can you report successes (and probably a few bugs),
but you can play with the demo program for each tutorial!
It&#39;s very fun.</p>

<h2><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="Articles"
>Articles</a></h2>

<p>Developing games with Perl and SDL on Ars Technica written by Andy Bakun <a href="http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2006/02/games-perl.ars" class="podlinkurl"
>http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2006/02/games-perl.ars</a></p>

<p>Note this is old.</p>

<h2><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="A_Little_History"
>A Little History</a></h2>

<p>Why are these pages new?
In October,
David G&#246;hrig,
the creator and maintainer of SDL Perl,
announced that he was quitting his job,
selling all his stuff,
and going backpacking in Europe for a few months.
That left SDL Perl without a maintainer or a home.
But SDL Perl is back and running with Kartik and David&#39;s help.</p>

<h2><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="Future_Plans"
>Future Plans</a></h2>

<p>We&#39;re working on polishing the latest code available to make the v2.5 release.
Here is the roadmap so far.

<a href="http://wiki.github.com/cthulhuology/SDLPerl" class="podlinkurl"
>http://wiki.github.com/cthulhuology/SDLPerl</a></p>

<p>Hopefully,
Perl will soon be a wonderful language in which to write media applications -- including games.</p>

<h2><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="Mailing_list"
>Mailing list</a></h2>

<p>Subscribe to the development list by sending an e-mail to <code>sdl-devel-subscribe@perl.org</code>.
Subscribe to the source code changes list by sending an e-mail to <code>sdl-changes-subscribe@perl.org</code>.</p>

<p>The archives of the mailing list is here <a href="http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.sdl.devel/" class="podlinkurl"
>http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.sdl.devel/</a>.</p>

<h2><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="IRC"
>IRC</a></h2>

<p>The IRC channel used by the SDL Perl people is #sdl on irc.perl.org.
If you have an IRC client use this link: <a href="irc://irc.perl.org/%23sdl" class="podlinkurl"
>irc://irc.perl.org/%23sdl</a> If you don&#39;t have an IRC client you can use the Mibbit web based IRC client by clicking here: <a href="http://widget.mibbit.com/?server=irc.perl.org&#38;channel=%23sdl" class="podlinkurl"
>http://widget.mibbit.com/?server=irc.perl.org&#38;channel=%23sdl</a></p>

<p>Our IRC channel is logged here</p>

<p><a href="http://irclog.perlgeek.de/sdl/today" class="podlinkurl"
>http://irclog.perlgeek.de/sdl/today</a></p>

<h2><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="Applications"
>Applications</a></h2>

<p>App-Fotagger is an application to add tags to images.
It was the first attempt of Thomas Klausner at SDL and it can be improved a lot: <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-Fotagger" class="podlinkurl"
>http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-Fotagger</a></p>

<h2><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="Games"
>Games</a></h2>

<p>The original Frozen Bubble <a href="http://www.frozen-bubble.org/" class="podlinkurl"
>http://www.frozen-bubble.org/</a> is probably the most well known application written in SDL Perl.</p>

<p>Thomas Klausner has started a Space Invaders clone in SDL Perl.
You can find the code on Github <a href="http://github.com/domm/Game-PerlInvaders" class="podlinkurl"
>http://github.com/domm/Game-PerlInvaders</a>.</p>

<p>Kartik Thakore has started a falling block game</p>

<p>You can find the code on Github <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/TetrisPL" class="podlinkurl"
>http://github.com/kthakore/TetrisPL</a>.</p>

<h2><a class='u' href='#___top' title='click to go to top of document'
name="Related_Links"
>Related Links</a></h2>

<dl>

<dt><a name="http://www.libsdl.org/"
><a href="http://www.libsdl.org/" class="podlinkurl"
>http://www.libsdl.org/</a></a></dt>

<dd>
<p>The SDL Homepage</p>

<dt><a name="http://wiki.github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/dependencies"
><a href="http://wiki.github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/dependencies" class="podlinkurl"
>http://wiki.github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/dependencies</a></a></dt>

<dd>
<p>Where to find SDL dependencies</p>

<dt><a name="http://yapgh.blogspot.com"
><a href="http://yapgh.blogspot.com" class="podlinkurl"
>http://yapgh.blogspot.com</a></a></dt>

<dd>
<p>Updated info from maintainer.
=back</p>
</dd>
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