In article <3a79f7f5@news.povray.org> , "Alessandro Coppo" <a.c### [at] iolit>
wrote:

> About the DLL problem (I was already flamed to death in past for this
> subject).
>
> DLLs are binary modules which contain code loadable and callable at runtime.
> Windows has DLLs. Linux, BSD, Solaris etc.etc. have shared libraries (look
> into /usr/lib for all those .so files...). VMS has shared libraries. I
> presume that Mac's have a similar mechanism, OSX being a Mach kernel + GNU
> tools is in the U*X pack.
>
> The only OS which I know for sure that 1) has a pov version 2) has nothing
> like DLLs is MS-DOS. So, should you decide that MSDOS is dead (well,
> actually it was never alive...) you can assume that you have the .dll/.so
> capability in ANY case.

Nobody said you cannot (easily) overcome the "DLL problem", but you have to
keep POVLegal in mind!

     Thorsten

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