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-SDL Perl Windows Status
+More Games + Update
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-Hello windows users,<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/SpKkfbVplzI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Uf0wq8fGemk/s1600-h/broken.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NnqjAQEn1Xo/SpKkfbVplzI/AAAAAAAAAAU/Uf0wq8fGemk/s400/broken.gif" /></a></div>Here is a simple picture explaining the status of SDL Perl on windows. I am hoping this changes. I know that <a href="http://use.perl.org/%7EAlias/journal/39476">Alias</a> is interested in this too. <br /><br />Here are steps needed to solve this:<br /><ol><li>Find out exactly what gcc flags are needed to make this work with strawberry's toolchain</li><li>Get the deps <a href="http://cloud.github.com/downloads/kthakore/SDL_perl/sdlperl-deps.tar.bz2">here</a>. Put the deps in C:/strawberry/c.</li><li> Try to make a Module::Build script work for win32 and win64 (There are differences apparently) </li><li>Try and emulate this in our current build system ( <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/22a6ead04e0d03fda8060d73c6f66cac2c49eae6/make/lib/SDL/Build.pm">make/lib/Build.pm</a>, and <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/blob/22a6ead04e0d03fda8060d73c6f66cac2c49eae6/make/lib/SDL/Build/MSWin32.pm">make/lib/Build/Win32.pm</a> )</li><li>Give me a shout on <a href="http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=SDL_Perl">RT</a> or <a href="mailto:mailto:sdl-devel@perl.org">sdl-devel@perl.org</a> ( even if you just make it to 3.)</li><li> Enjoy SDL and lots of ++ from Alias, CSJewell and SDL_perl devs. <br /></li></ol><sarcasm> There easy as pie </sarcasm><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-2619755134262449430?l=yapgh.blogspot.com'/></div></div></div>
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+<div style="text-align: right;"><i><br />
+idle digits,<br />
+play,<br />
+away,<br />
+idle digits.<br />
+</i></div><br />
+So while I am hacking away on v2.4 and <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/tree/experimental">breaking</a> a lot of things. Here is a link to some more <a href="http://home.comcast.net/%7Eg.f.taylor/GarrysGames.html">games</a> for SDL Perl. These only work in windows now but I will look into bringing them to CPAN (with Garry's permission). <br />
+<br />
+<i>--yapgh</i><br />
+<br />
+These where reported by Garry Taylor. Here is the rest of the email:<br />
+<br />
+<blockquote><i>Hi all,</i><br />
+<i>I hadn't checked this newsgroup in a while and was happy to see </i><br />
+<i>that it still alive and well. I saw that some people had been sharing </i><br />
+<i>some SDL Perl games online, and I had a few to share as well. At </i><br />
+<i>"http://home.comcast.net/~g.f.taylor/GarrysGames.html" you can find four </i><br />
+<i>games I have written as well as a simple flip book program to let a </i><br />
+<i>child play at making animation on the computer. The games are "Toad" (a </i><br />
+<i>Frogger wanna be), "RabbitHat" (like Centipede), "BunnyHunt" (sort of </i><br />
+<i>like Pac-Man) and "Bonk The Buggies". All (with the exception of Toad </i><br />
+<i>which in its very first incarnation was a game I wrote in TRS-80 Basic </i><br />
+<i>back in 1981) were written originally to run on my Windows 3.11 PC for </i><br />
+<i>my little girl so that she could play games which were not quite so </i><br />
+<i>violent as games were starting to become at the time.</i><br />
+<i><br />
+</i><br />
+<i>A few years ago I got the idea of trying to get them to run again </i><br />
+<i>by rewriting them in Perl. The downloads are Windows XP/Vista installs </i><br />
+<i>which include a bare bones Perl environment for running the games (the </i><br />
+<i>installs put the code into its own separate place, and shouldn't </i><br />
+<i>interfere with your existing Perl setups). I did this so that I could </i><br />
+<i>share the games with friends and family who either don't have SDL </i><br />
+<i>installed, don't have Perl installed, or don't do any programming and </i><br />
+<i>just needed something that will run. The code as it currently stands </i><br />
+<i>was not written for general publication, so there are probably places </i><br />
+<i>where the Perl code itself is not always the best looking it could be, </i><br />
+<i>but the games themselves work pretty well. Also, it is worth noting </i><br />
+<i>that I wound up being lazy and made a few additions to the Perl SDL code </i><br />
+<i>that I was using to add an additional function or two for printing text </i><br />
+<i>onto the screen that was centered or right aligned.</i><br />
+<i><br />
+</i><br />
+<i>While I have not made any Unix installs for the code, I have </i><br />
+<i>actually run the games on a few Linux machines that I have access to, </i><br />
+<i>where I also had installed SDL. I have not updated my SDL installs in </i><br />
+<i>several years now, so there may be complications that arise if running </i><br />
+<i>it with a new version of SDL.</i><br />
+<i><br />
+</i><br />
+<i>I hope you enjoy the games (or at least aren't too mean about it </i><br />
+<i>if you don't).</i><br />
+<i>Garry Taylor</i></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-500220938152318100?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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