POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : POV-Ray 3.8 beta 2 for Windows build with MinGW : Re: POV-Ray 3.8 beta 2 for Windows build with MinGW Server Time
14 Aug 2025 19:17:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray 3.8 beta 2 for Windows build with MinGW  
From: Mr
Date: 4 Aug 2025 06:25:00
Message: <web.689089b792f6684316086ed06830a892@news.povray.org>
"Mirosław" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I've made patch to build POV-Ray 3.8 beta 2 for Windows using MinGW.
> File syspovconfig_mingw32.h was created and few changes made to syspovconfig.h,
> pvedit.cpp, pvengine.cpp and ImfSystemSpecific.h files.
>
> The most important was get rid of dependence on __try/__except which isn't
> supported in MinGW.
>
> Tested with MSYS2 MinGW (https://www.msys2.org/).
> Build for Windows XP is possible with TDM-GCC
> (https://jmeubank.github.io/tdm-gcc/).
>
> Code:Blocks workspace/project files are attached.

It's always good to have more build workflows polishing POV-Ray's
compatibility/ubiquity, thank you so much !


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