Welcome to the new SDL Perl pages, graciously hosted by Perl.org.
11 August 2009 SDL_Perl is on Github
The master branch is stable on CPAN as v2.2.0. This only Builds on Linux and Darwin platforms. Work is being done on v2.2.1 to add building support for other platforms.
The bleeding edge code is available from http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_Perl/.
See http://search.cpan.org/~dgoehrig/SDL_Perl-2.2.0/lib/SDL.pm. Please report any strange behavior to the list.
We've written four tutorials so far, and you can read them online:
- SDL::Tutorial at http://sdl.perl.org/tutorials/
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An introduction to SDL Perl.
- SDL::Tutorial::Drawing at http://sdl.perl.org/tutorials/drawing.html
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Drawing basics.
- SDL::Tutorial::Animation at http://sdl.perl.org/tutorials/animation.html
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Animation basics.
- SDL::Tutorial::Images at http://sdl.perl.org/tutorials/images.html
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Image loading and animation.
Of course, if you grab a snapshot and install it, not only can you report successes (and probably a few bugs), but you can play with the demo program for each tutorial! It's very fun.
Developing games with Perl and SDL on Ars Technica written by Andy Bakun http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2006/02/games-perl.ars
Why are these pages new? In October, David Göhrig, the creator and maintainer of SDL Perl, announced that he was quitting his job, selling all his stuff, and going backpacking in Europe for a few months. That left SDL Perl without a maintainer or a home. But SDL Perl is back and running with Kartik and David's help.
We're working on polishing the latest code available to make the v2.2.1 release. One of our goals after a working build is to have a Parrot parser with Perl 5 NCI to make installing even simpler.
Here is the roadmap so far. http://wiki.github.com/cthulhuology/SDLPerl
Hopefully, Perl will soon be a wonderful language in which to write media applications -- including games.
We'll be making archives of the old mailing list available. Subscribe to the development list by sending an e-mail to sdl-devel-subscribe@perl.org. Subscribe to the source code changes list by sending an e-mail to sdl-changes-subscribe@perl.org.
App-Fotagger is an application to add tags to images. It was the first attempt of Thomas Klausner at SDL and it can be improved a lot: http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-Fotagger
The original Frozen Bubble http://www.frozen-bubble.org/ is probably the most well known application written in SDL Perl.
Thomas Klausner has started a Space Invaders clone in SDL Perl. You can find the code on Github http://github.com/domm/Game-PerlInvaders.
- http://www.libsdl.org/
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The SDL Homepage
- http://wiki.github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/dependencies
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Where to find SDL dependencies