Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> mosaik wrote:
> > I have POV-Ray 3.6.1c.icl8.win32 installed.
> > And I downloaded the windows source just a few days ago. I did not compile
> > the editor (as suggested in the README). When starting
> > vs2008\bin32\pvengine.exe I get the above error message. The version is
> > 3.6.2.msvc9.unofficial-win32. I do not know, where pvengine loads the DLLs
> > from, since there are no DLLs in the povwin-3.62 directory!?
>
> POV-Ray 3.6.2 has a newer and incompatible editor DLL. If you're compiling
> povrin-3.62, you need the editor DLL from a 3.6.2 release (or compile it
> yourself).
>
> Get 3.6.2 from the usual place: http://povray.org/download/#binaries

Ok, now I understand: the source distribution is not (fully) self-contained; if
not compiled by one self the editor DLL is taken from a binary release. (Now I
found the corresponding NOTE in the README. I think it should be moved from the
"FULL DETAILS" section to "SO YOU WANT .. QUICK START ..".)

thank you for your help!

Andi

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