Hi All,

Is there any way of using PovRay 3.5 for Windows in a command-line onyl
fashion?

I'm creating sceen files in an automatic manner. As the rending is also
fully automated it would be nice to have an old dos-style command-line only
way to render the image, without having the GUI starting.
Unfortunately the documentation does not specify such an
option for pvengine.

Thanks a lot!

Cheers,
Wolf

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On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 10:10:59 +0200, "Wolf" <wmo### [at] webde> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is there any way of using PovRay 3.5 for Windows in a command-line onyl
> fashion?

"1.9.1  Special Command-Line Options"

ABX

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"Wolf" <wmo### [at] webde> wrote in message news:3d731d9d@news.povray.org...
> Hi All,
>
> Is there any way of using PovRay 3.5 for Windows in a command-line onyl
> fashion?
>

Short answer: No

Long Answer: Due to the abuse of version 3.1 by some unscrupulous companies,
that functionality is no longer availiable.  In order to comply with the new
license, the splash screen must be displayed.

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I suppose if you really gotta' have CLI, you could try the DOS version of
3.1g, but it ain't 3.5.... ;-)
Just look for the old versions on the website at the bottom of
http://www.povray.org/download/

--Mark W.

Tom Galvin wrote:
>"Wolf" <wmo### [at] webde> wrote in message news:3d731d9d[at]news.povray.org...
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Is there any way of using PovRay 3.5 for Windows in a command-line onyl
>> fashion?
>>
>
>Short answer: No
>
>Long Answer: Due to the abuse of version 3.1 by some unscrupulous companies,
>that functionality is no longer availiable.  In order to comply with the new
>license, the splash screen must be displayed.
>


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I think there is a version of povray 3.5 for cygwin somewhere on the web. I
don't really remember where I saw it, but you could try the povray.unix
newsgroup.

Best Regards

Fidel.


in article web.3d74d00cc8702202b597c920@news.povray.org, LibraryMan at
mrm### [at] attnet wrote on 3/9/02 4:06 pm:

> I suppose if you really gotta' have CLI, you could try the DOS version of
> 3.1g, but it ain't 3.5.... ;-)
> Just look for the old versions on the website at the bottom of
> http://www.povray.org/download/
> 
> --Mark W.
> 
> Tom Galvin wrote:
>> "Wolf" <wmo### [at] webde> wrote in message
>> news:3d731d9d[at]news.povray.org...
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> Is there any way of using PovRay 3.5 for Windows in a command-line onyl
>>> fashion?
>>> 
>> 
>> Short answer: No
>> 
>> Long Answer: Due to the abuse of version 3.1 by some unscrupulous companies,
>> that functionality is no longer availiable.  In order to comply with the new
>> license, the splash screen must be displayed.
>> 
> 
> 
> Feel the power of the penguin at www.libranet.com
> 
>

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Fidel viegas wrote:
> 
> I think there is a version of povray 3.5 for cygwin somewhere on the web. I
> don't really remember where I saw it, but you could try the povray.unix
> newsgroup.

No, POV-Ray 3.5 does not seem to compile correctly without the unix
emulation DLL from cygwin (it compiles, but the resulting binary isn't
functional). A program linked with that library requires to be under open
source licence for distribution.  You can compile POV-Ray 3.5 fairly
straight away with cygwin, but you probably won't find a compiled binary
for distribution.

Christoph

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TransSkin and more: http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/  
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In article <3D79ED58.D85376AE@gmx.de> , Christoph Hormann 
<chr### [at] gmxde>  wrote:

> No, POV-Ray 3.5 does not seem to compile correctly without the unix

Well, why would you use the Unix source code as is?  Just remove unix.cpp
and change config.h to no longer depend on it.  Then it will work just fine!

    Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
> Well, why would you use the Unix source code as is?  Just remove unix.cpp
> and change config.h to no longer depend on it.  Then it will work just fine!
> 

No, that's not the problem.

Christoph

-- 
POV-Ray tutorials, IsoWood include,                 
TransSkin and more: http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/  
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In article <3D7A1EA8.7E56CF6A@gmx.de> , Christoph Hormann 
<chr### [at] gmxde>  wrote:

>> Well, why would you use the Unix source code as is?  Just remove unix.cpp
>> and change config.h to no longer depend on it.  Then it will work just fine!
>
> No, that's not the problem.

So what is?  There should be no need to emulate any Unix functions (except
getcwd, which can be defined out of existence with a few restrictions),
so...

    Thorsten

PS: In case you saw the reply I just canceled, that was meant for another
group and I types in the wrong window...


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In article <qj76nu4h66le1t0mkssppaphvm565t4u31@4ax.com> , ABX 
<abx### [at] abxartpl>  wrote:

>> Hi All,
>>
>> Is there any way of using PovRay 3.5 for Windows in a command-line onyl
>> fashion?
>
> "1.9.1  Special Command-Line Options"

And make sure to read:

Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 13:19:24 +0200
From: "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde>
Newsgroups: povray.windows
Subject: Re: NO whitespaces allowed in Path to ini ?
Message-ID: <3d5b8e3f$1@news.povray.org>
Xref: news.povray.org povray.windows:4737

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