Simple DirectMedia Library Bindings for Perl

Welcome to the new SDL Perl pages, graciously hosted by Perl.org.

Latest News

23 February 2004: 2.1.0 released!

Dave has returned, integrating several important and useful changes into SDL Perl version 2.1.0, including the new build system. See http://search.cpan.org/dist/SDL_Perl/. Please report any strange behavior to the list.

Tutorials Online!

We've written four tutorials so far, and you can read them online:

SDL::Tutorial at http://sdl.perl.org/tutorials/

An introduction to SDL Perl.

SDL::Tutorial::Drawing at http://sdl.perl.org/tutorials/drawing.html

Drawing basics.

SDL::Tutorial::Animation at http://sdl.perl.org/tutorials/animation.html

Animation basics.

SDL::Tutorial::Images at http://sdl.perl.org/tutorials/images.html

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.

A Little History

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.

Future Plans

We're working on polishing the latest code available to make the 1.20.4 release, as the newest version on the CPAN is rather old. Then, it's miscellaneous cleanups, more documentation and tutorials, bugfixes, and new features.

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.

Related Links

http://wgz.org/chromatic/perl/sdl/

SDL Perl snapshots (mostly stable, always up to date)

http://www.libsdl.org/

The SDL Homepage

http://bloodgate.com/perl/sdl/

Tels' Perl SDL pages

http://www.sdlperl.org/

The old SDL Perl homepage (currently down)