5.2. Binaries

Making binaries from POV-Ray™ and MegaPOV requires:

If you have all of this you can try to make your own binaries.

To compile MegaPOV on Windows systems you do not need to buy expensive compilers. There are some free C++ compilers available.

Compiling on Unix systems using the GNU C/C++ Compiler (gcc) and GNU make should be fairly easy. There is a Unix source code package available on the MegaPOV site.

For compiling with graphics display support you need the X and VGALib headers and libraries:

Detailed explanation on how to compile without graphics display support and other specialities is given in the source code package. Compiling with other compilers than gcc should be possible but requires manual modifications in the makefiles.