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29 Apr 2024 09:36:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: povray 3.7 does not give me a preview window, while 3.6 does  
From: Le Forgeron
Date: 25 Jul 2014 03:11:02
Message: <53d20306$1@news.povray.org>
On 25/07/2014 08:36, Warp wrote:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> As for POV-Ray 3.6, my guess is that you might have obtained it as a 
>> pre-built binary with the SDL library linked statically.
> 
> Did 3.6 even use SDL at all? (POV-Ray has been around for a really
> long time, way before SDL, and it has always shown a preview window
> on Unix/X. I think in the past it called the X API directly.)
> 

You are right, 3.6 did not use SDL, but tried to handle the X11 options
itself.

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