Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> 1Daedalus wrote:
> > The Windows section of the download says, "The 32-bit version requires at
> > least Windows 95 ...", implying that it will run on Windows/95; however the
> > current v3.6 binary does not.  It installs properly but when you attempt to
> > start povray,  an error message-box appears saying somthing about povray
> > being linked to shell.dll which is missing export GetSpecialFolderNames."
> >
> > It would be helpful to have a binary that continues to run properly on
> > Windows/95, thanks.
>
> You should install the strongly recommended Internet Explorer 4 if you
> haven't.  A proper shell.dll certainly is included with it.  I don't know if
> it is included in IE 3 or not (the download page says IE 3 is required, that
> might be outdated, I just don't know.)
>
> The function you are missing probably is "SHGetSpecialFolderPath" as there
> is no such thing as "GetSpecialFolderNames" anywhere in the POV-Ray for
> Windows source code.
>
>  Thorsten


This system has IE 5.0 installed.  The unsuported function POV-ray
references is actually "SHGetSpecialFolderPathA" (the non-unicode version
of that Win32 API function).

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