General (all OS)

On Windows, Alien::SDL will get you zip-files containing prebuilt libs.

On Unixes you can choose between compiling libs or use libs provided by the dist. The different options on Unixes are availale when requirements are met. Like having specific libs installed.

There is some additional documentation in the Github-Wiki <https://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL/wiki/Testing>. You definitively want to look there, if you want to know how to install SDL from the latest sources (e.g. in an unfinished, unreleased state).

Installation

Once you installed Strawberry Perl, you can access the cpan shell via the start menu.

Open up the cpan shell and type "install Alien::SDL SDL". Please follow the dialog and answer the questions to the best of your knowledge.

Installation

Once you have a newer Perl installed please use "cpan" to install Alien::SDL (and of course SDL).

Using SDL on Mac OS X

Using Mac OS X, your SDL Perl script have to look like this:

  #!SDLPerl
  
  use strict;
  use warnings;
  use SDL;
  # your code here ...

Using the wrong Perl executable, you might encounter a lot of error messages resulting in "terminate called after throwing an instance of 'NSException'". cf. the corresponding github issue <https://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL/issues/208>.