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From: Maleko
Subject: help compiling Unix version
Date: 5 Apr 1999 19:44:16
Message: <37093cc0.0@news.povray.org>
I recently got permission to compile and run pov on the shell server at the
ISP i work for. I tried to compile it today and got a fatal error. lpng
library not found  compile terminated.  any ideas i can use to get povray
compiled besides installing the library?


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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: help compiling Unix version
Date: 5 Apr 1999 21:31:03
Message: <370955c7.0@news.povray.org>
In article <37093cc0.0@news.povray.org> , "Maleko" <mar### [at] ncxcom> wrote:

> I recently got permission to compile and run pov on the shell server at the
> ISP i work for. I tried to compile it today and got a fatal error. lpng
> library not found  compile terminated.  any ideas i can use to get povray
> compiled besides installing the library?

The library is part of the POV-Ray soure code distribution because it is
needed by POV-Ray. If you don't want PNG support, remove the PNG_POV.C and
.H files from the make and source and then eliminate all remaining errors
(references to png functions) that come up.  This should not be too much,
the image support code is very well isolated.


    Thorsten


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From: Maleko
Subject: Re: help compiling Unix version
Date: 5 Apr 1999 23:07:40
Message: <37096c6c.0@news.povray.org>
ithought I would have to get the library from somewhere else, my mistake.
Could you explain to a newbie UNIX user why the official source would be
giving me this error then?


Thorsten Froehlich <fro### [at] charliecnsiitedu> wrote in message
news:370955c7.0@news.povray.org...
> In article <37093cc0.0@news.povray.org> , "Maleko" <mar### [at] ncxcom> wrote:
>
> > I recently got permission to compile and run pov on the shell server at
the
> > ISP i work for. I tried to compile it today and got a fatal error. lpng
> > library not found  compile terminated.  any ideas i can use to get
povray
> > compiled besides installing the library?
>
> The library is part of the POV-Ray soure code distribution because it is
> needed by POV-Ray. If you don't want PNG support, remove the PNG_POV.C and
> .H files from the make and source and then eliminate all remaining errors
> (references to png functions) that come up.  This should not be too much,
> the image support code is very well isolated.
>
>
>     Thorsten


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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: help compiling Unix version
Date: 5 Apr 1999 23:12:44
Message: <37096d9c.0@news.povray.org>
In article <37096c6c.0@news.povray.org> , "Maleko" <mar### [at] ncxcom> wrote:

> ithought I would have to get the library from somewhere else, my mistake.
> Could you explain to a newbie UNIX user why the official source would be
> giving me this error then?

You need to compile the libraries yourself. You also need to compile ZLib
(also included) first before you can compile PNGLib. Both include
documentations on how to compile them on different UNIX implementations.


    Thorsten


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From: Maleko
Subject: Re: help compiling Unix version
Date: 6 Apr 1999 00:31:08
Message: <37097ffc.0@news.povray.org>
ahhh ok thx  I SHOULD know by now to RTFM  ;-)


Thorsten Froehlich <fro### [at] charliecnsiitedu> wrote in message
news:37096d9c.0@news.povray.org...
> In article <37096c6c.0@news.povray.org> , "Maleko" <mar### [at] ncxcom> wrote:
>
> > ithought I would have to get the library from somewhere else, my
mistake.
> > Could you explain to a newbie UNIX user why the official source would be
> > giving me this error then?
>
> You need to compile the libraries yourself. You also need to compile ZLib
> (also included) first before you can compile PNGLib. Both include
> documentations on how to compile them on different UNIX implementations.
>
>
>     Thorsten
>
>
> ____________________________________________________
> Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
> e-mail: Tho### [at] csicom
>
> Visit POV-Ray on the web: http://mac.povray.org


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