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SDL_perl 1.20.3a
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This is painfully old news, but it seems that Tels had forked SDL_perl and released SDL_perl 1.20.3. This distribution is a hybrid of SDL_perl 2.0b2, with a mostly compatible SDL_perl 1.19 interface. Thomas Tongue forked this as SDL_perl 1.20.3a which integrates some of the Mac OS X build patches I had made when I ported Frozen Bubble.
I say mostly compatible, because it almost works unchanged with Frozen Bubble (as far as I can tell). It seems that SDL_perl 1.19 stored SDL::Surface objects as a hash reference, where they are scalar references in SDL_perl 1.20.3a. So, I had to change several lines of code that looked like this:
$surface_reference->{-surface}
To this:
${$surface_reference}