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.
To begin using SDL Perl read the tutorials and documentation.
Talk to us on channel #sdl at irc.perl.org
Send us an email at mailing list.
Join us on the trac site to get started on making and grabing tickets.
To begin testing read this.
SDL 2.3_1 (Alpha) is on CPAN. The new API has many changes, read the release notes.
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.
SDL Perl is being actively developed to v3.0. The process is as below:
(80% done) Complete access to these functions SDL_API.
MultiThreading is doable with this release but will be focused on later
Provide support for SDL + POE collaboration.
Provide dependecies for FrozenBubble migration to CPAN.
This release is undecided as of now. Please talk to us on the Channel or Make Tickets