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4 May 2024 06:14:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray 3.5 makefile for Inprise (Borland) free command-line tools  
From: ABX
Date: 21 Oct 2002 04:43:39
Message: <pce7rugbsntvn8aboobq3ea069erg1q7k3@4ax.com>
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:16:01 -0400, "Tony[B]" <ben### [at] catholicorg> wrote:
> Only thing that I had to do was find htmlhelp.lib and winmm.lib. I used
> implib (as per a suggestion on some site I've lost the URL to) to extract
> winmm.lib from system32\winmm.dll. Oh, and I renamed it .obj. I have no idea
> whether this is good or bad, all I know is that POV compiled and hasn't
> crashed yet...

That's wrong IMO. I have thought about that problem and found the reason.
First of all You don't have to extract winmm.lib from dll. It is already
present in free borland but not in main LIB\ but in subfolder LIB\PSDK.

And you don't have to rename it to obj. It can be linked directly as
winmm.lib. Just make optional two pragmas from pvengine.c.

#ifndef __BORLANDC__
  #pragma comment(lib, "htmlhelp")
  #pragma comment(lib, "winmm")
#endif

> It's just very slow compared to the official binary. About
> half speed. :(

Exactly. Standard benchmark started on Win95 with PII 233 128 MB
POVWin  - 13h 51m 14s
PoPOVWin - 7h 00m 24s

ABX


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