to follow up on this story:

On the <http://megapov.inetart.net/povrayunofficial_mac/alphapov.html> 
web page, i downloaded the source for 
"PovRayUnofficial_3.8.0-alpha.10013324-avx" XCode 10 project (XCode is a 
standard IDE).

The last update to this page was on January 15, 2019, which is quite 
some time ago but the project for POVRay has the same structure.

I have included a screenshot of a project window. It clearly shows the 
libraries used: zlib, tiff,... and openexr. We can therefore assume that 
OpenEXR is supported.

I tried to compile the project as is, but I got miles of errors, and to 
make matters worse, the project is version 10, while we are on version 16.

There are a lot of corrections to be made just to adapt the project, and 
I'm not at all comfortable with all of this.


There are compilation errors in the _stdio.h file, which is part of the 
original SDK. I have a feeling this is going to be complicated.






-- 
kurtz le pirate
compagnie de la banquise

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hi,

kurtz le pirate <kur### [at] freefr> wrote:
> to follow up on this story:
>
> On the <http://megapov.inetart.net/povrayunofficial_mac/alphapov.html>
> web page, i downloaded the source for
> "PovRayUnofficial_3.8.0-alpha.10013324-avx" XCode 10 project (XCode is a
> standard IDE).

fwiw, not a useful choice.  as I recall, clipka abandoned ("rolled back" from)
the alphas past 9945627.


regards, jr.

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On 2025-12-29 12:12:07 +0000, Cousin Ricky said:

> Yvo Smellenbergh <E-mail: yvo(DOT)s(AT)gmx.net> wrote:
>> Both versions run on system 10.9.5 and later, Intel and Apple Silicon (M1).
>> These are universal binaries.
>> I have compiled these versions for myself but may as well share them
>> with those interested.
> 
> There is a report that your 3.8.0 beta 2 has no EXR capability.  Could you
> please check that?  If this is indeed the case, could you please check that the
> OpenEXR *developer* library is installed on your system?  I know from 
> experience
> that POV-Ray will compile cleanly on GNU/Linux with the EXR and SDL libraries
> missing, and it may be the same on the Mac.
> 
> I suspect your 3.7.0.9 may also have the same omission.

EXR has been implemented; all features of the official version have 
been implemented, and the file format can be selected in the output 
pop-up.
However, due to a small error in the project, EXR does not work as expected.
I will make a new version available in one of the coming days in which 
it works properly, for both the 3.8 version and the 3.7 version.
I just need to make sure that everything works on at least Ventura. 
Moreover, I am no longer actively working on my version of POV-Ray for 
Mac, although I do try to keep the project up to date.
I will post a message as soon as they are available.
Please use only the website https://povrayunofficial.wordpress.com.
The site http://megapov.inetart.net/povrayunofficial_mac/ is outdated, 
but I am unable to remove it. The person who made it available for us 
can no longer be reached, and my password is no longer active :-(.
To avoid any misunderstandings: for my version of POV-Ray, no libraries 
(OpenEXR, Boost, etc.) need to be installed on your Mac. All required 
files are included in the project and in POV-Ray itself.

-- 
Yvo

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