Samour wrote:
> I'm using VS2008 on a Windows Vista 64-bit machine. Compiling and building the
> 32-bit POV-Ray app (3.7 beta 32) succeeds; however when I try to run it I get
> the following error message from pvengine.cpp:
> 
>                   "ERROR : Cannot find Home entry in registry (and cannot infer
> it).\n\n"
>                   "This entry should have been set by the installation
> program.\n\n"
>                   "POV-Ray can usually infer the installation path but that
> requires a\n"
>                   "standard layout of directories, which also seems to be
> absent.\n\n"
>                   "If you did not install using the correct installation
> procedure, please\n"
>                   "do this before running POV-Ray for Windows. You can also try
> running\n"
>                   "with the '/INSTALL' or '/INSTALL <installdir>' option.",
>                   "Critical Error",
> 
> I'm assuming this is due to the lack of 64-bit boost libraries. Is that the
> case?

You did read the message, right? Did you try following its instructions?

> And if so, do you have any suggestions on a good reference to build these
> libraries? I've been searching online and tried everything there but so far no
> luck yet.

Yes, the boost documentation at www.boost.org explains using bjam in great 
detail. You can find them for each version of boost, for the latest version 
it is at 
<http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_39_0/more/getting_started/windows.html>, 
and or older versions as well.

	Thorsten

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