POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.macintosh : New to Macintosh - how to install? : Re: New to Macintosh - how to install? Server Time
5 Oct 2024 14:36:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: New to Macintosh - how to install?  
From: kurtz le pirate
Date: 9 Sep 2023 03:04:21
Message: <64fc18f5$1@news.povray.org>
On 08/09/2023 18:54, Alessio R Sangalli wrote:

> 
> The next step I wanted to inquire about, I am not sure how to call 
> pov-ray from the command line. I typically build scenes that use a 
> Makefile to render sections according to dependencies, and under Linux I 
> just call the rendering engine that is in the PATH. Do I just have to 
> add the /Applications/PovRay... to the system PATH?
> 

... not quite.
What you have installed is the "standard" GUI version.

For command line, you have to use another version named "Command line
POV-Ray 3.7.0 final" that you can find here:
<http://megapov.inetart.net/povrayunofficial_mac/finalpov.html>


-- 
Kurtz le pirate
Compagnie de la Banquise


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