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The Build Process of SDL PerlWednesday, 07 July 2010Tags: [Building] [Perl] [SDL] A while ago I had a long chat with mst on why SDL uses Module::Build rather then Make. I told him it is a simple matter of code inertia. The existing Module::Build system has worked well for us so far. Never the less, he convinced me that switching to Make will improve debugging the Build system. But to be able to switch we will need to completely replace the Build system. I am not prepared to do that so I will just present the requirements so mst or someone else can at least attempt to switch.
The Build Process
Alien::SDL
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SDL RC 2.5 decides to play with PDLTuesday, 29 June 2010Tags: [PDL] [Perl] [SDL] PDL provides great number crunching capabilities to Perl and SDL provides game-developer quality real-time bitmapping and sound.
You can use PDL and SDL together to create real-time,
responsive animations and simulations.
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Providing direct memory access to SDL_Surface's pixelsWednesday, 23 June 2010Tags: [Pack] [Perl] [SDL] [Surface] [XS] In an attempt to make pixel access easier on SDL_Surface pixels. I have started work on SDLx::Surface . So far I have only start on the 32 bpp surfaces.
The general idea is to make Pointer Values (PV) of each pixel in the surface and place them into a 2D matrix. First I make pointer values like this:
SV * get_pixel32 ( SDL_Surface * surface , int x , int y )
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