You could also install cygwin and use Christoph Hormann's povcyg.

George


"Tom Galvin" <tom### [at] imporg> wrote in message
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> "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in
> news:3e5e415f@news.povray.org:
>
> > In article <web.3e5e38438feffecd4a47b6380@news.povray.org> , "Brian"
> > <brl### [at] smcmedu> wrote:
> >
> >> I am writing an program that generates POV files, then I want a
> >> seperate thread to call POV-ray to render the files.  The problem is,
> >> when I call POV-ray from the program with the right command line
> >> parameters, it loads the splash screen and the text editor with the
> >> file I want rendered open waiting for the user.  Is there a way of
> >> calling POV-ray where is just pops up to render the file, or even
> >> just renders the file in the background, and saves output to a file?
> >
> > This is the wrong group to ask this question.  I assume you are
> > talking about the Windows version, and for that it has been explained
> > several times in the past few month in povray.windows.  Just go
> > through the list of posts there.
> >
> >     Thorsten
> >
>
> This has become a frequent request. There have been several custom
> compliles of a console mode version for windows, and at least one gui
> extension.  Would the team consider providing a official console mode
> version with the next bugfix release?  Follow ups set to povray.windows
>
> Thanks
> Tom
>
>

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