Has anyone managed to compile Povray with Cygwin? When I try it it
complains about missing X headers. Using --without-x makes no
difference.

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in article 3ddb050b$1@news.povray.org, Ross Smith at ros### [at] pharosconz
wrote on 20/11/02 3:46 am:

> Has anyone managed to compile Povray with Cygwin? When I try it it
> complains about missing X headers. Using --without-x makes no
> difference.

Have a look here http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0013390/

All the best

Fidel.

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"Fidel viegas" <fid### [at] artrecognitioncouk> wrote in message
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> in article 3ddb050b$1@news.povray.org, Ross Smith at ros### [at] pharosconz
> wrote on 20/11/02 3:46 am:
>
> > Has anyone managed to compile Povray with Cygwin? When I try it it
> > complains about missing X headers. Using --without-x makes no
> > difference.
>
> Have a look here http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0013390/

That only covers Mingw, not Cygwin.

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is labelled 'Technical proposal', and the fantasy is labelled 'Budget
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in article 3ddc4530$1@news.povray.org, Ross Smith at ros### [at] pharosconz
wrote on 21/11/02 2:32 am:

> "Fidel viegas" <fid### [at] artrecognitioncouk> wrote in message
> news:BA015E5A.717D%fid### [at] artrecognitioncouk...
>> in article 3ddb050b$1@news.povray.org, Ross Smith at ros### [at] pharosconz
>> wrote on 20/11/02 3:46 am:
>> 
>>> Has anyone managed to compile Povray with Cygwin? When I try it it
>>> complains about missing X headers. Using --without-x makes no
>>> difference.
>> 
>> Have a look here http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0013390/
> 
> That only covers Mingw, not Cygwin.
> 
Sorry, I didn't really try it. I had version 3.1g.

All the best

Fidel.

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On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 03:46:42 +0000, Ross Smith wrote:

> Has anyone managed to compile Povray with Cygwin? When I try it it
> complains about missing X headers. Using --without-x makes no
> difference.

It appears that the config for without X doesn't work, 
the quick way to get things to work are to
hack the makefile to remove the reference to
povxlib.o from the povray_OBJECTS section
and povxlib.c from povray_SOURCES

then add

#define X_DISPLAY_MISSING 1

to conf.h

which will give you a pure command line version.
That works for compiling the unix version on a Mac,
should work for cygwin too.

the other alternatives are to install a copy of xfree for cygwin :-)
or fix the configure script.

Dave

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"David Burnett" <var### [at] ntlworldcom> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 03:46:42 +0000, Ross Smith wrote:
>
> > Has anyone managed to compile Povray with Cygwin? When I try it it
> > complains about missing X headers. Using --without-x makes no
> > difference.
>
> It appears that the config for without X doesn't work,
> the quick way to get things to work are to
> hack the makefile to remove the reference to
> povxlib.o from the povray_OBJECTS section
> and povxlib.c from povray_SOURCES
>
> then add
>
> #define X_DISPLAY_MISSING 1
>
> to conf.h
>
> which will give you a pure command line version.
> That works for compiling the unix version on a Mac,
> should work for cygwin too.
>
> the other alternatives are to install a copy of xfree for cygwin :-)
> or fix the configure script.

Thanks!

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Ross Smith ...................... Pharos Systems, Auckland, New Zealand

"I write science fiction and fantasy for a living. The science fiction
is labelled 'Technical proposal', and the fantasy is labelled 'Budget
estimate'." -- Jordin Kare

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