Best wishes for this new year, which is off to a funny start for me.


After my tests on Ubuntu, I decided to compile POVRay on MacOS Sequoia 
(15.7.3).


I get sources here : https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray
I installed the libraries with brew.

Some information about the result:

 > povray -version
POV-Ray 3.8.0-alpha.unofficial

This is an unofficial version compiled by:
  kurtz le pirate <kur### [at] freefr>
  The POV-Ray Team is not responsible for supporting this version.

Copyright 1991-2019 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is 
NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
PURPOSE.

Built-in features:
   I/O restrictions:          disabled
   X Window display:          disabled
   Supported image formats:   gif tga iff ppm pgm hdr png jpeg tiff
   Unsupported image formats: openexr

Compilation settings:
   Build architecture:  x86_64-apple-darwin24.6.0
   Built/Optimized for: x86_64-apple-darwin24.6.0 (using -march=native)
   Compiler vendor:     gnu
   Compiler version:    g++ 17.0.0
   Compiler flags:      -pipe -Wno-multichar -Wno-write-strings
                        -Wsuggest-override -O3 -ffast-math
                        -march=native -pthread

Not everything is perfect, but POV-Ray seems to be working except 
that... when I try to render I get a "empty" image with only the 
background color and the output file has been successfully created.

Tested with several standard 3.8 scenes and multiple file formats with 
this command line:

	povray fractal1.pov +W800 +H600 +FN8

No error on output console.

Others info about lib with povray -? command:

Support libraries used by POV-Ray:
   ZLib 1.2.12, Copyright 1995-2012 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
   LibPNG 1.6.53, Copyright 1998-2012 Glenn Randers-Pehrson
   LibJPEG 8, Copyright 1991-2016 Thomas G. Lane, Guido Vollbeding
   LibTIFF 4.7.1, Copyright 1988-1997 Sam Leffler, 1991-1997 SGI
   Boost 1.90, http://www.boost.org/





Does anyone have any idea what might be happening and
can give me a clue as to how to resolve this issue?

🤪




-- 
kurtz le pirate
compagnie de la banquise

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