"David Burnett" <var### [at] ntlworldcom> wrote in message
news:3dde9294$1@news.povray.org...
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 03:46:42 +0000, Ross Smith wrote:
>
> > Has anyone managed to compile Povray with Cygwin? When I try it it
> > complains about missing X headers. Using --without-x makes no
> > difference.
>
> It appears that the config for without X doesn't work,
> the quick way to get things to work are to
> hack the makefile to remove the reference to
> povxlib.o from the povray_OBJECTS section
> and povxlib.c from povray_SOURCES
>
> then add
>
> #define X_DISPLAY_MISSING 1
>
> to conf.h
>
> which will give you a pure command line version.
> That works for compiling the unix version on a Mac,
> should work for cygwin too.
>
> the other alternatives are to install a copy of xfree for cygwin :-)
> or fix the configure script.

Thanks!

--
Ross Smith ...................... Pharos Systems, Auckland, New Zealand

"I write science fiction and fantasy for a living. The science fiction
is labelled 'Technical proposal', and the fantasy is labelled 'Budget
estimate'." -- Jordin Kare

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