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-SDL Perl Windows Status +More Games + Update

-Hello windows users,

Here is a simple picture explaining the status of SDL Perl on windows. I am hoping this changes. I know that Alias is interested in this too.

Here are steps needed to solve this:
  1. Find out exactly what gcc flags are needed to make this work with strawberry's toolchain
  2. Get the deps here. Put the deps in C:/strawberry/c.
  3. Try to make a Module::Build script work for win32 and win64 (There are differences apparently)
  4. Try and emulate this in our current build system ( make/lib/Build.pm, and make/lib/Build/Win32.pm )
  5. Give me a shout on RT or sdl-devel@perl.org ( even if you just make it to 3.)
  6. Enjoy SDL and lots of ++ from Alias, CSJewell and SDL_perl devs.
There easy as pie
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+idle digits,
+play,
+away,
+idle digits.
+

+So while I am hacking away on v2.4 and breaking a lot of things. Here is a link to some more games for SDL Perl. These only work in windows now but I will look into bringing them to CPAN (with Garry's permission).
+
+--yapgh
+
+These where reported by Garry Taylor. Here is the rest of the email:
+
+
Hi all,
+I hadn't checked this newsgroup in a while and was happy to see
+that it still alive and well. I saw that some people had been sharing
+some SDL Perl games online, and I had a few to share as well. At
+"http://home.comcast.net/~g.f.taylor/GarrysGames.html" you can find four
+games I have written as well as a simple flip book program to let a
+child play at making animation on the computer. The games are "Toad" (a
+Frogger wanna be), "RabbitHat" (like Centipede), "BunnyHunt" (sort of
+like Pac-Man) and "Bonk The Buggies". All (with the exception of Toad
+which in its very first incarnation was a game I wrote in TRS-80 Basic
+back in 1981) were written originally to run on my Windows 3.11 PC for
+my little girl so that she could play games which were not quite so
+violent as games were starting to become at the time.
+
+
+A few years ago I got the idea of trying to get them to run again
+by rewriting them in Perl. The downloads are Windows XP/Vista installs
+which include a bare bones Perl environment for running the games (the
+installs put the code into its own separate place, and shouldn't
+interfere with your existing Perl setups). I did this so that I could
+share the games with friends and family who either don't have SDL
+installed, don't have Perl installed, or don't do any programming and
+just needed something that will run. The code as it currently stands
+was not written for general publication, so there are probably places
+where the Perl code itself is not always the best looking it could be,
+but the games themselves work pretty well. Also, it is worth noting
+that I wound up being lazy and made a few additions to the Perl SDL code
+that I was using to add an additional function or two for printing text
+onto the screen that was centered or right aligned.
+
+
+While I have not made any Unix installs for the code, I have
+actually run the games on a few Linux machines that I have access to,
+where I also had installed SDL. I have not updated my SDL installs in
+several years now, so there may be complications that arise if running
+it with a new version of SDL.
+
+
+I hope you enjoy the games (or at least aren't too mean about it
+if you don't).
+Garry Taylor
+


+

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