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Simple DirectMedia Library Bindings for Perl

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Welcome

SDL Perl are a set of bindings to the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL).

'Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power."' --www.libsdl.org

SDL Perl is an active and exciting project with many facets. Explore this website to learn more.

Getting Started

To begin using SDL Perl read the tutorials and documentation.

Contribute

IRC

Talk to us on channel #sdl.

Mailing List

Send us an email at mailing list.

Testing and Development

Join us on the trac site to get started on making and grabing tickets.

To begin testing read this.

Latest News

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November 13th 2009

CPAN Release

SDL Perl is v2.2.6 on CPAN. The last of it's kind. This is the last release which will have the old API.

Active Development

SDL Perl is being actively developed to v3.0. The process is as below:

v2.3 100% Core of SDL C API migrated without MultiThreading

Complete access to these functions SDL_API.

MultiThreading is doable with this release but will be focused on later

v2.4 SDL_Image, SDL_Net, SDL_Pango, SDL_TTF, SDL_GFX & SDL_Mixer Support

Provide support for SDL + POE collaboration.

Provide dependecies for FrozenBubble migration to CPAN.

v2.5 ??? MultiThreading and Other Third Party Libraries

This release is undecided as of now. Please talk to us on the Channel or Make Tickets

Some Eye Candy

Here is a video of a game that works on the new API: