On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 20:08:25 -0700 Dawn McKnight wrote:

>I downloaded (with my sysop's assistance) the SunOS binary, and he
>installed it.  Now, it'll open the file and start to read it, but when
>it gets to my first #local definition, it complains.  I should note that
>this .inc file works fine under both Mac and Windows versions of POVRay.

  Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> emailed me the following:

  If I remember correctly, there's no 3.1 binary available in the
POV-Ray site, only the 3.0 (which doesn't support #locals and #macros).
  If you want the 3.1g binary for SunOS, you'll have to compile it
yourself.
  I have done this tens or hundreds of times now (with the official
version and many versions of MegaPov) so it's more or less routine to
me.
  However, setting up the makefile for compiling in SunOS required a bit
of work at the beginning (there's nothing wrong in the makefile itself,
you only have to know which lines to uncomment, which ones to comment,
which search paths to change and where, etc; the makefile is pretty well
commented so that helps a lot).
  Just download the generic unix source code of POV-Ray 3.1g, edit
carefully the Makefile and compile (if you don't have zlib and libpng
installed on your system you'll have to compile them before compiling
POV-Ray; they come with the POV-Ray source code in their own
directories).
  If you have any problem compiling, feel free to ask me.
  I could also compile a (statically linked) binary file and send it to
you if you want.


			- Warp
(followups to povray.unix)

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