Povray for OS/2

POVRAY is a well known raytracer, perhaps the most popular at all.
There are other builds of Povray for OS/2 available, but my are usually the most recent ones. In fact it is trivial to create them, since the source is very portable and compiles out of the box as of 3.1x. (this holds if you get the un*x-version, which is fine for a number-cruncher w/o fancy UI. I only made the code somehow aware of the environment variable X11ROOT)
In opposite to all/most others my builds contain the builtin X11-previewer. Of course you can of use PMView instead or other nice PM applications which offer preview. But if you're looking for something simple and portable the X11 preview is fine.

A few notes related to these builds:

Version 3.1 is not 100% source compatible to prior ones (e.g. 3.0 and below)! Check the according docs, perhaps you may want to keep an old binary around.
If this package doesn't work for you, please report the problem to me and not to the original authors.
Running the binaries below requires the EMX runtime. I also added the necessary include files for the raytracer. But the detailed documentation and some other helpful files are missing and are available from two archives (I hope the links are still ok):
file 1 (source, include files) and file 2 (documentation)

Downloads

3.1g, including X11-preview
(4th build, 20020115; 772515 Bytes)
4th build comes finally properly packaged, the 3rd build had also a typo in the xpov.cmd script. Compiler tuning flags increased speed by about 7% and it was linked against recent XFree86 3.3.6.
This includes the man page, include files and executable, no further docs. This binary is linked statically with the X11 libs, i.e. it will run _regardless_ whether you have installed XFree86 or not! But if you're clever enough to have X11 installed you can just use the xpov.cmd which will automatically add the correct library path to the povray call. i.e. just type
xpov -Imy_favourite_pic.pov +D0
and you get it rendered with real-time preview!
If you don't have X11 installed, just adjust (and rename?!) that batch file and adjust it to your setup.

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