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From: Chris Jeppesen
Subject: How to compile Megapov 0.7 in linux
Date: 24 Jan 2002 21:14:24
Message: <3C50BF97.1020106@digiquill.com>

Compiling MegaPov for linux requires more work than it should. I have 
finished a patch which does this work.

There is a link on Nathan Kopp's site http://nathan.kopp.com/patched.htm 
to another page which claims to give instructions on how to do this, but 
I have never seen this link work, and I believe the page is dead.

Building MegaPov requires a few canges to the source code, all minor, 
and a major addition to the makefile. This patch makes those changes.

In order to apply this patch, get povuni_s.tgz from the povray site, 
megasrc07.zip from Nathan's site, and my patch from 
povray.binaries.programming. Copy all the files to /usr/local/src or 
wherever else you feel like. Unpack povuni_s.tgz. It will create a 
subdirectory povray31. go to povray31/source, and unzip megasrc.zip 
using the following command:

unzip -LL -a ../../megasrc07.zip

This will cause all filenames to be converted to lower case and convert 
MS-DOS \r\n into Unix \n line endings. This is important, since Linux 
filenames are case sensitive, and GCC chokes on MS-DOS line endings. 
When it asks, tell it to replace all files it finds.

goto the povray31 directory and apply the patch as follows:

bunzip2 -c ../megapov07.patch.bz2 | patch -Np1

now go to povray31/source/unix, edit the makefile to match your system, 
and run

make newunix

to compile the system.

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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: How to compile Megapov 0.7 in linux
Date: 25 Jan 2002 07:45:27
Message: <3C51535E.326376BE@gmx.de>

Chris Jeppesen wrote:
> 
> Compiling MegaPov for linux requires more work than it should. I have
> finished a patch which does this work.
> 
> There is a link on Nathan Kopp's site http://nathan.kopp.com/patched.htm
> to another page which claims to give instructions on how to do this, but
> I have never seen this link work, and I believe the page is dead.
> 

There are several megapov derived versions ready to compile with Linux,
for example Megapov plus:

http://www.mailbag.com/users/mtgordon/megapov.html

Povman:

http://tofbouf.free.fr/clothray/download_en.html

and my own Megapov MCP:

http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/povcyg/index.html
mirror: http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0013390/povcyg/index.html 

-- 
Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other 
things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/

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