Thanks for the quick help. 

I'm sorry for the misunderstanding: I'm not a beginner in programming.
I've been coding in C and C++ for some time now. I'm also familar with
command-line basing platforms such as Linux (so I have a basic
understanding of how to use MPW). But I tried to compile the POV Code
with CW Pro 3 (I don't have 5.2 or something), which made a lot more
trouble. So I tried MPW.

Fabian

Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
> The MPW makefiles that come with 3.1g don't work if Mac Pict support is
> enabled.  The simplest solution is to remove the following lines from
> config.h:
> 
> #define GET_SYS_FILE_HANDLE() MacFile_GetFileHandle()
> #define READ_SYS_IMAGE(i,n)  MacFile_ReadImage((i),(n))
> #define SYS_DEF_EXT    ".pict"
> 
> and near the end
> 
> #define GET_SYS_FILE_HANDLE() MacFile_GetFileHandle()
> 
> > I'm quite new to MPW and have no idea what to do.
> 
> To be honest (and very direct), compiling POV-Ray is not an easy task
> for a beginner.  The source code is complex and not well commented, and
> when you run into problems you should be able to resolve them on your
> own.  If you don't know how, compiling the source code will most likely
> be a very frustrating and discouraging experience.
> 
> There are more rewarding, smaller programs (like the Apple sample code)
> out there that can get you started to learn programming and using MPW.
> If you search a bit on Apples developer website, you will probably find
> some good tutorial or other information that will be really helpful
> getting started, too..

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