ithought I would have to get the library from somewhere else, my mistake.
Could you explain to a newbie UNIX user why the official source would be
giving me this error then?


Thorsten Froehlich <fro### [at] charliecnsiitedu> wrote in message
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> In article <37093cc0.0@news.povray.org> , "Maleko" <mar### [at] ncxcom> wrote:
>
> > I recently got permission to compile and run pov on the shell server at
the
> > ISP i work for. I tried to compile it today and got a fatal error. lpng
> > library not found  compile terminated.  any ideas i can use to get
povray
> > compiled besides installing the library?
>
> The library is part of the POV-Ray soure code distribution because it is
> needed by POV-Ray. If you don't want PNG support, remove the PNG_POV.C and
> .H files from the make and source and then eliminate all remaining errors
> (references to png functions) that come up.  This should not be too much,
> the image support code is very well isolated.
>
>
>     Thorsten

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