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19 Apr 2024 19:56:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 3.7 doesn't run on vista 32-bit, no source code available to build  
From: jmichae3
Date: 8 Sep 2016 23:00:00
Message: <web.57d22481f87a5c8c944c3db40@news.povray.org>
Le_Forgeron <lef### [at] freefr> wrote:
> Le 08/09/2016 à 11:08, jmichae3 a écrit :
> > 3.7 doesn't run on vista 32-bit, no source code available to build.
> >
> > the program is GPL'd, which means it is open source and if a binary is given,
> > the source code must be made available. but I cannot find the sources.
>
> The program is GPL, but the Editor for Windows is a totally different
> license.
>
> The GPL sources are on github.
>
> >
> > my platform is vista 32 on an amd athlon x2 "64" which really seems to act like
> > a 32-bit processor with PAE (address extensions), given they way it can allocate
> > 64GB+/disk of virtual memory just like that, whereas XP32 was limited to
> > 4GB/disk.
> > fixed virtual memory does not alleviate the need for more RAM, but it helps.
> > auto-allocated virtual memory always fails to work.
> >
>
> This problem should have been reported in povray.windows, IMHO.

thanks.
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