POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Request POV-Ray port for Haiku (open BeOS): Re: Request POV-Ray port for Haiku (open BeOS)

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Request POV-Ray port for Haiku (open BeOS) : Re: Request POV-Ray port for Haiku (open BeOS)		Server Time 25 Apr 2024 05:38:14 EDT (-0400)

From: David Burnett
Date: 3 Jun 2010 14:15:06
Message: <4c07f12a$1@news.povray.org>

Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Le 29/05/2010 01:53, AndrewZ a écrit :
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I would like to formally request a version of POV-Ray for the Haiku operating
>> system. Haiku is the open source version of BeOS:
>
> You have the system, so why not give povray3.7beta source for unix a try
> about any compilation issue ?
> 
> From your page, it seems haiku claim posix compliance, so it should look
> just like another unix/linux for povray.
>

While Haiku may be posix compliant, pov isn't it uses the GNU TLS 
extension (i.e. __thread) so an Haiku port will have to support that too 
or work around it.

It's really annoying, it stops me from compiling the linux source on OSX.

Dave

P.S. I'm the bloke who compiled POV-Ray 3.5 for BeOS on Be Bits 
(http://www.bebits.com/app/2982). Does it run on Haiku ?

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