Crysus wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I need a standalone povray version for Windows without an installer (and
> registry entries). All what i need is just the renderer, no GUI etc. Is
> there something like that available?
> 
> I need that for following purpose:
> We set up a High Throughput Computing pool with lots of machines in it. Now
> i can submit the server lots of Jobs (An executable with commands,
> additional files etc.) and the server looks for machines in that pool that
> match best the requirements of the job and let that machine execute and
> send back the results.
> 
> So.. Povray on Linux-machines works properly with that, i send a big
> renderjob (movie) and the server gives pieces of that job to linux-machines
> which execute that job. The server has to send the povray-executable and
> the ini-file(s) to each execute machine - works fine, especially you have
> big renderjobs.
> 
> The problem is povray on Windows machines. I haven't found any solution, how
> i can render something with povray without having installed povray (3.6).
> The registry entries seem to be important. But I mustn't just add these
> registry entries on the execute machines.

You can build the Unix version of POV-Ray on Windows without problems. 
But POV-Ray for Unix also requires an installation to function properly.

Christoph

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