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  Re: Any solution on failure of POV-RAY 3.6 on intel MACs?  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 23 Dec 2008 04:05:42
Message: <4950a9e6$1@news.povray.org>
QKRS WEB wrote:
> "hauskurz" <kur### [at] biochemwustledu> wrote:
> 
>> What is probably needed is a universal binary.  Has anyone
>> solved this problem?
> 
> In theory, the application just needs to be tweaked with
> a tool such as "Resorcerer" http://www.mathemaesthetics.com
> to set the "Application (Universal)" flag.
> 
> Looking at it from "Resorcerer," the PowerPC native "cfrg" Code Fragment
> resource looks right but the "carb" Carbon Direct Launch resource is set to
> "0."
> 
> My hunch is that something has to be set to invoke Rosetta (the PowerPC
> Emulator) when Carbon Direct Launch is called.
> 
> I'm hunting around for a working Universal Application ported from PowerPC to
> open under "Resorcerer" to confirm the hunch.

POV-Ray 3.6 is not a universal application. Please see the note on the 
website. The problem is within Apple's PowerPC emulator and only occurs on 
some systems x86 systems running Mac OS X 10.4 as well as on Mac OS X 10.5.

	Thorsten, POV-Team


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