Hi all,

I downloaded the latest source from the pov site and decided to give it a 
try in building under borland's compiler. I had to make a few tweaks in 
the makefile.bcc and one or two of the source files. Anyway, I got all 
the source files to compile as well as the pvengine.rc file compiled but 
the linking phase isn't working. The ilink32 keeps crashing with a 
'Fatal: Access violation. Link terminated' error.

If I omit pvengine.res then everything links fine but the pvengine.exe 
doesn't run. It gives the following error in a dialog box:

Editor DLL initialisation failed[LoadLibrary failed, code is 0000007e]

following that after clicking ok, another dialog box:

See the 'Internal Editor Reference' section in the help file

and then 

Failed to load internal bitmap

and finally

pvengine.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close...

I looked in the Tutorial and Reference manual but couldn't located the 
'Internal Editor Reference' section that first dialog speaks of.

Finally, I did do the pov installation properly and that runs fine. Also, 
the only thing I've changed in pv_engine.rc are the lines starting with 

FONT 8 "...", x,x,x,x

into 

FONT 8 "..."

since the borland resource compiler chokes with the extra parameters 
after the string.

Any help on what the problem might be is appreciated

Thanks

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Vivi Orunitia schrieb:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I downloaded the latest source from the pov site and decided to give it a
> try in building under borland's compiler.

You should note that support in POV-Ray for the borland compiler was
given up quite some time ago and it is quite possible (although i can't
say for sure) that it does not support all the C++ language elements
used by POV-Ray.  The Windows version of POV-Ray 3.6 is known to compile
with the Intel C++ compiler, MSVC as well as MinGW.

-- Christoph

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