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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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Feb 22 2010

CPAN Release

SDL 2.3_5(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.

Active Development

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

TODO

Release 2.3_7
 Mixer Docs, tests, and XS

Release 2.3_8
 TTF Docs, tests and XS

Release 2.3_9
 Pango Docs, tests and XS

Release 2.4.5
  Sugar for Core SDL objects
  Make SDL work with Frozen Bubble