POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.utilities : ANNOUNCE: "VOP" - POV-Ray Previewer using OpenGL : Re: ANNOUNCE: "VOP" - POV-Ray Previewer using OpenGL Server Time
14 May 2024 23:35:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: ANNOUNCE: "VOP" - POV-Ray Previewer using OpenGL  
From: Wolfgang Thaller
Date: 4 Mar 2002 04:07:50
Message: <3c833966@news.povray.org>
Daniel Matthews <dan### [at] 3-enet> wrote:
> Yes please,  or just a makefile for *nix systems.

A linux binary is now online.

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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It needs a working version of OpenGL (tested with slightly outdated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


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