Linux::Svgalib ============== This module provides a Perl interface to svgalib - a library of graphics routines that work in the Linux virtual console. There is an existing module called 'vga' that provides similar facilities - the major difference being that this module provides a vaguely object oriented interface and attempts to make it easier to work with some of the svgalib functions that return or take as arguments C datatypes that are sometimes difficult to work with in Perl. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install Because of the way in which svgalib works you will almost certainly need to become the superuser before running 'make test' - infact on most systems you will either need to be the superuser or have created a setuid program to use this module properly at all. DEPENDENCIES This module obviously requires svgalib in order to build. It has been tested with version 1.4.2 of the library but it doesnt appear that the API has changed since about 1.2 so anything since then should work but I am not going to make any guarantees about that. As far as I know svgalib only works on x86 linux - but I dont have any alternative hardware on which to test this assertion. COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2001 Jonathan Stowe . This is free software - it can be modified and/or distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.