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9 Documentation
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12 This document describes OS specific informations regading the
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15 General (all OS)
16 You need to install Alien::SDL to acquire all prerequisites of SDL.
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18 On Windows, Alien::SDL will get you zip-files containing prebuilt libs.
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21 the dist. The different options on Unixes are availale when
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24 There is some additional documentation in the Github-Wiki
25 <https://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL/wiki/Testing>. You definitively
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30 Installation
31 We recommend Strawberry Perl. You can get it here
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34 Once you installed Strawberry Perl, you can access the cpan shell via
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37 Open up the cpan shell and type "install Alien::SDL SDL". Please follow
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41 Installation
42 You will need a newer version of Perl that you can install with
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45 Once you have a newer Perl installed please use "cpan" to install
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48 Using SDL on Mac OS X
49 You can't use the "perl" executable to run SDL scripts on Mac OS X, you
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62 Using the wrong Perl executable, you might encounter a lot of error
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84 Copyright 2002-2010 SDL Authors as listed above, all rights reserved.
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86 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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