Re: [Condor-users] Compiling povray for the standard universe

[Allan James <ar.james@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff...

I have got POV-Ray working under Vanilla universe if that is of any 
help... here are the note I compiled regarding recompilation etc..

A standalone, command-line only version of POV-Ray is required for 
submitting rendering jobs through Condor. The UNIX version of POV-Ray 
supports this mode of operation.

This therefore requires POV-Ray to be rebuilt from the UNIX source code 
to run on Windows using a GCC compiler. The simplest way to do this on 
Windows is to use the MinGW environment to rebuild the UNIX POV-Ray 
source for Windows.

*Install MinGW*

- A collection of freely available and freely distributable Windows 
specific header files and import libraries combined with GNU toolsets 
that allow one to produce native Windows programs that do not rely on 
any 3rd-party C runtime DLLs.

*Install MSYS (MinGW)*

- This is a Minimal SYStem providing a self hosted mingw32 target POSIX 
style environment.

*Download Linux source code for POV-RAY*

*Run MSYS, build and link UNIX POV-Ray for Windows:*

./configure --enable-strip COMPILED_BY="your name <email@address>" 
--prefix=/home/<userid>/povinstall

_Explanations:_

COMPILED_BY="your name <email@address>" - This information then appears 
when program runs

--prefix=/home/<userid>/povinstall -
Where to install the package, equates to 
c:\msys\1.0\home\<userid>\povinstall, where we can easily find it later, 
and can be sure it won't be mixed in with any other packages.This will 
create an executable tuned for your machine, which may not be backwardly 
compatible to older processors.

If you need to build a version which will be compatible with all 
processors, you need to issue a slightly different command. POVRay 
POV-Ray requires a minimum of a 486, so the following will create a 
version which runs on 486 or better. Add a "--host" option to the above, 
forcing the configuration to setup for the older processor.

$ ./configure --enable-strip COMPILED_BY="your name <email@address>" 
--prefix=/home/<userid>/povinstall --host=i486-pc-mingw32

Then compile it with:

$ make
$ make check
$ make install

You can now find all the povray files installed at:

c:\msys\1.0\home\<userid>\povinstall


hope some of this helps
Allan James


Jeff Sherman wrote:
> Has anyone succeeded in compiling povray for Condor's
> standard universe?  I'm on a system that does not
> allow commands like "condor_compile make ..." so
> instead I've tried redefining CC, CPP, LD, etc. to the
> "condor_compile ..."  equivalents both through the
> ./configure utility and environment variables.  The
> final linking fails.  Any hints?
>
> Thanks,
> -js
>
>
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