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23 Apr 2024 16:25:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 3.7 doesn't run on vista 32-bit, no source code available to build  
From: Le Forgeron
Date: 8 Sep 2016 05:43:35
Message: <57d132c7@news.povray.org>
Le 08/09/2016 à 11:08, jmichae3 a écrit :
> 3.7 doesn't run on vista 32-bit, no source code available to build.
>
> the program is GPL'd, which means it is open source and if a binary is given,
> the source code must be made available. but I cannot find the sources.

The program is GPL, but the Editor for Windows is a totally different 
license.

The GPL sources are on github.

>
> my platform is vista 32 on an amd athlon x2 "64" which really seems to act like
> a 32-bit processor with PAE (address extensions), given they way it can allocate
> 64GB+/disk of virtual memory just like that, whereas XP32 was limited to
> 4GB/disk.
> fixed virtual memory does not alleviate the need for more RAM, but it helps.
> auto-allocated virtual memory always fails to work.
>

This problem should have been reported in povray.windows, IMHO.


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