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-Can someone please point me to good XS documentation!
+The beginnings of modular design for SDL Perl
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-<i style="float:right;">A poor man begs,<br />
-A troubled man prays,<br />
-who shall answer? </i><br />
+<div style="text-align: right;"><i>“Do or do not... there is no try.”</i><br />
+</div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>--yoda </i><br />
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+</div><h1>The design before</h1><br />
+The bindings before were all in <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/master/src/SDL.xs">one huge XS file</a>. This was then exported into the SDL module. This means that the XS file has to handle with macros if any component (e.x SDL_Mixer) is not compiled. Moreover having ever binding in one XS file prevents use to treat C structs as object with only one point of free and malloc. This would be BEGIN and DESTROY in Perl. Also the monolithic design introduces a lot of bugs because we have to use free and malloc all over the place. Lastly SDL monolithic design has the constructor for all structs in both Perl and in XS. <br />
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+<h1>The design we are aiming for</h1>Simple <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/master/src/Rect.xs">one XS</a> per Module. This would also simplify the Build code.<br />
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-<p>This is the first time perldoc has disappointed me. The example on perlxs is wrong and fails. I do not wish to flame writers of perlxs but please check that your examples work! Ironically I know that broken tutorials is a problem with SDL perl too. </p><p>If anyone can point me to the simplest working exaple of XS with a c struct, it would be greatly appreciated.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-9063382931575650771?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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+<h2>First Step </h2><br />
+We have began with SDL Rect. It is in github master branch now. We are in the progress of making it back compatible. Originally SDL::Rect took named variables as parameters for new(). Now since the constructor <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/master/src/Rect.xs#L16">is in XS</a> we have only unnamed parameters. <br />
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+<br />
+<h3>Before</h3><br />
+SDL::Rect-&gt;new( -x =&gt; 0, -y =&gt; 0, -width =&gt; 0, -height =&gt; 0);<br />
+<br />
+<h3>After</h3><br />
+SDL::Rect-&gt;new(0, 0, 0, 0);<br />
+<br />
+Ideally we would like both ways of constructing Rect.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-6151839795039915111?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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