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From: Alessio Sangalli
Subject: How to build console version
Date: 16 Dec 2021 18:00:05
Message: <61bbc4f5$1@news.povray.org>
Hello I am trying to mess with the POV-Ray source code.

Right now I am on a Window machine and I have Visual Studios 2015 AND 
2019. Unfortunately I am not an expert of this environment. I would like 
to compile the console version of the program (I honestly never use the 
GUI anyway).

My questions are:
1) which branch should I really use:
   remotes/origin/3.7-stable
   remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
   remotes/origin/autobuild/alpha_v380
   remotes/origin/autobuild/experimental
   remotes/origin/autobuild/freetype
   remotes/origin/autobuild/tokenizer
   remotes/origin/autobuild/v3.8.0-alpha
   remotes/origin/experimental/freetype
   remotes/origin/feature/advanced_diffuse
   remotes/origin/feature/colour_model
   remotes/origin/feature/tonemapping
   remotes/origin/housekeeping/prebuild_dir
   remotes/origin/latest-stable
   remotes/origin/master
   remotes/origin/release/v3.7.0
   remotes/origin/release/v3.8.0

I tried 3.7-stable but I got all sorts of issues migrating from the old 
"solution"; I then tried release/v3.8.0 but if I try to compile the 
console version:

1>------ Skipped Build: Project: boost_date_time, Configuration: Debug 
Win32 ------
1>Project not selected to build for this solution configuration
2>------ Build started: Project: console, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
2>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 
'C:\dev\povray\windows\vs2015\bin32\lib\libboost_date_time32d.lib'
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 21 up-to-date, 1 skipped ==========

(this is after I specified _CONSOLE in syspovconfig.h)

at this point even the GUI version would work but it complains I have to 
use /INSTALL, then I was able to make it start but it still wants more 
DLL's, and I would very much like to stay with a command line console 
version.

Thank you


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From: Alessio Sangalli
Subject: Re: How to build console version
Date: 16 Dec 2021 22:46:49
Message: <61bc0829$1@news.povray.org>
On 16-Dec-21 15:00, Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> Hello I am trying to mess with the POV-Ray source code.
> 
> Right now I am on a Window machine and I have Visual Studios 2015 AND 
> 2019.

Nevermind, it was just easier to open a Kubuntu virtual machine and I 
compiled POV-Ray effortlessly.

Thanks!


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From: Kenneth
Subject: Re: How to build console version
Date: 20 Dec 2021 04:00:00
Message: <web.61c04546729242014cef624e6e066e29@news.povray.org>
Alessio Sangalli <man### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>
> Right now I am on a Window machine and I have Visual Studios 2015 AND
> 2019. Unfortunately I am not an expert of this environment. I would like
> to compile the console version of the program (I honestly never use the
> GUI anyway).
> ...
> Nevermind, it was just easier to open a Kubuntu virtual machine and I
> compiled POV-Ray effortlessly.
>

Congratulations for getting the compiling to successfully work.

I am a long-time user of POV-Ray on Windows, with its native GUI, but I know
almost nothing about Ubuntu OR even how to compile programs. I assume that you
are now running your compiled version IN Windows.

Some questions:
1) Does the compiled program have to be run in the Kubuntu virtual-machine
environment in order to work, or does it run successfully in the native Windows
environment? Or both?

2) Does Kubuntu also allow a GUI to be built for such a compiled version of
POV-Ray? If so, does the resulting program then have to be run in the Kubuntu
environment?

Sorry if my questions might be naive ones; but there are those of us here who
would like to compile POV-Ray from its source code to run on Windows, but don't
know how (because of all of the complicated DLLs required, etc.) I am also
thinking of several 'forks' of POV-Ray that are currently not compiled for
Windows, like William Pokorny's  'povr' branch.


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From: Dick Balaska
Subject: Re: How to build console version
Date: 20 Dec 2021 11:50:41
Message: <61c0b461$1@news.povray.org>
On 12/16/2021 6:00 PM, Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> Hello I am trying to mess with the POV-Ray source code.
> 
> Right now I am on a Window machine and I have Visual Studios 2015 AND 
> 2019. Unfortunately I am not an expert of this environment. I would like 
> to compile the console version of the program (I honestly never use the 
> GUI anyway).

To build the console version, you have to configure the modules. Ok, 
it's been a while for me so I don't remember the nomenclature.
There is a dialog box with checkboxes to select the modules to use. i.e. 
jpeg, boost_time, etc.  One will be called GUI, uncheck that.  One will 
be called console, check that.  Then recompile.  You will get build 
errors, but the error is quite specific about what you have to fix to 
move on. Something like enabling _CONSOLE in file ../../blah.h

dik


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