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30 Jul 2024 12:23:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Compiling POV-Ray 3.7 for Linux  
From: clipka
Date: 25 Oct 2011 18:32:09
Message: <4ea738e9$1@news.povray.org>

> High!
>
> On 25.10.2011 22:07, clipka wrote:
>
>> What you really should try is POV-Ray 3.7
>
> O.k., I downloaded the source code package from www.povray.org - but
> then, I failed already after I unpacked the zip file.

That should be a *.tar.bz2 file actually. You won't get far with the 
Windows zip file on a Linux machine :-P

> There is no such thing as "configure" on my system!

There is - in the folder you extracted the POV-Ray sources to ;-) Just 
invoke "./configure" in that directory.

> Perhaps I'm just too stupid to compile complex C++ code under Linux...

... or you're simply not familiar with the typical procedures (yet).


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