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9 Jun 2024 21:35:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: ANNOUNCE: "VOP" - POV-Ray Previewer using OpenGL  
From: Daniel Matthews
Date: 4 Mar 2002 12:30:34
Message: <1325378.OXK15sIn9r@3-e.net>
Wolfgang Thaller wrote:

> Daniel Matthews <dan### [at] 3-enet> wrote:
>> Yes please,  or just a makefile for *nix systems.
> 
> A linux binary is now online.
> 
> ----
> Notes on the Linux version
> 
> The installation instructions in the manual have not yet been adapted
> for Linux, all the things said about paths and environment variables
> are basically the same for Linux.
> 
> VOP was compiled on my RedHat 7.1 box.
> It needs a working version of OpenGL (tested with slightly outdated
> nVIDIA XFree 4 drivers, and there's no reason why it shouldn't work
> with Mesa) and a current version of GLU. AFAIK, Mesa's GLU library
> misses some required features, but SGI's GLU library is Open Source,
> works fine, and is available from Mesa's web page, too.
> 
> Other notable dependencies:
> libc.so.6
> libglut.so.3
> libgmp.so.3
> libncurses.so.5
> 
> Source code is available separately, but there's no proper Makefile
> and you first have to install a compiler and some libraries for
> an exotic programming language that even most computer specialists
> have never heard of (Haskell - see www.haskell.org).
> 
> VOP's home page is at:
> http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/imawww/thaller/wolfgang/vop-intro.html
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Wolfgang Thaller

Thanks, nice work.


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