I installed povray 3.6 onto my macBook pro. Whenever I try to open it, it
starts opening and goes as far as showing sort of a table named 'Messages'
and another named 'Templates'. Then it just vanishes and gives this
message:- "The application POV-Ray Mac 3.6 quit unexpectedly". I was
wondering if you could help me in this matter.

I have very little experience with povray and I've only worked on it on a
Linux based machine.

Thanks

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thuthon <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I installed povray 3.6 onto my macBook pro. Whenever I try to open it, it
> starts opening and goes as far as showing sort of a table named 'Messages'
> and another named 'Templates'. Then it just vanishes and gives this
> message:- "The application POV-Ray Mac 3.6 quit unexpectedly". I was
> wondering if you could help me in this matter.

  Even though MacOS X *should* be able to run older MacOS software even
in the new intel macs, I still wonder if that problem you describe could
be caused by this...

> I have very little experience with povray and I've only worked on it on a
> Linux based machine.

  If you don't mind using povray in the linux-way, you can always
download the source distribution and compile it as a command-line
version (like in linux), assuming you have gcc (or any similar
compiler) installed. MacOS X *is* basically a unix, so it should
work.

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                                                          - Warp

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> thuthon <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > I installed povray 3.6 onto my macBook pro. Whenever I try to open it, it
> > starts opening and goes as far as showing sort of a table named 'Messages'
> > and another named 'Templates'. Then it just vanishes and gives this
> > message:- "The application POV-Ray Mac 3.6 quit unexpectedly". I was
> > wondering if you could help me in this matter.
>
>   Even though MacOS X *should* be able to run older MacOS software even
> in the new intel macs, I still wonder if that problem you describe could
> be caused by this...
>
> > I have very little experience with povray and I've only worked on it on a
> > Linux based machine.
>
>   If you don't mind using povray in the linux-way, you can always
> download the source distribution and compile it as a command-line
> version (like in linux), assuming you have gcc (or any similar
> compiler) installed. MacOS X *is* basically a unix, so it should
> work.
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp
So I should be able to compile it on XCode?

Thanks

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"thuthon" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> > thuthon <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > > I installed povray 3.6 onto my macBook pro. Whenever I try to open it, it
> > > starts opening and goes as far as showing sort of a table named 'Messages'
> > > and another named 'Templates'. Then it just vanishes and gives this
> > > message:- "The application POV-Ray Mac 3.6 quit unexpectedly". I was
> > > wondering if you could help me in this matter.
> >
> >   Even though MacOS X *should* be able to run older MacOS software even
> > in the new intel macs, I still wonder if that problem you describe could
> > be caused by this...
> >
> > > I have very little experience with povray and I've only worked on it on a
> > > Linux based machine.
> >
> >   If you don't mind using povray in the linux-way, you can always
> > download the source distribution and compile it as a command-line
> > version (like in linux), assuming you have gcc (or any similar
> > compiler) installed. MacOS X *is* basically a unix, so it should
> > work.
> >
> > --
> >                                                           - Warp
> So I should be able to compile it on XCode?
>
> Thanks

I just downloaded and compiled povray source code for linux on to my macbook
pro. I followed the instructions given in one of the files that I unpacked
from the download using the following commands:-

% ./configure COMPILED_BY="your name <email@address>" [options]
% make check
% su
$ make install

It went smoothly without a glitch. But I cant seem to run povray. I typed
"povray +I picture.pov". There is a pov file named picture.

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thuthon <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> It went smoothly without a glitch. But I cant seem to run povray. I typed
> "povray +I picture.pov". There is a pov file named picture.

  What does it say?

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                                                          - Warp

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> thuthon <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > It went smoothly without a glitch. But I cant seem to run povray. I typed
> > "povray +I picture.pov". There is a pov file named picture.
>
>   What does it say?
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

It says
-bash: povray: command not found

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thuthon <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> -bash: povray: command not found

  Well, doesn't that tell you exactly what is the problem? The povray
binary is not in your path.

  Either copy the binary to somewhere in your path ("~/bin/" is usually
in linux systems, but might not be in MacOS X) or start it with the
full path. (If the binary is in the current directory, then "./povray"
or if it's in another directory then "/the/full/path/to/povray".)

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                                                          - Warp

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"thuthon" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I installed povray 3.6 onto my macBook pro. Whenever I try to open it, it
> starts opening and goes as far as showing sort of a table named 'Messages'
> and another named 'Templates'. Then it just vanishes and gives this
> message:- "The application POV-Ray Mac 3.6 quit unexpectedly". I was
> wondering if you could help me in this matter.

I've just obtained an Intel-based Mac, and I get exactly the same result.
DAZ Studio doesn't run either. However, if you're brave enough to try it,
the universal binary version of MegaPOV works perfectly.

http://megapov.inetart.net/download.html

Bill

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