[Radiance-dev] mingw rtcontrib (under windows)

[Gregory J. Ward]

Hi Francesco,

I remember this used to be a problem way back in 1990(?) when I first  
compiled Radiance under MS-DOS, but I would think they'd have fixed  
it by now...  I guess it wouldn't be the first thing that never got  
fixed.  Maybe it's a "feature?"

-Greg

> From: Francesco Anselmo <pisuke at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Date: April 26, 2006 3:01:30 PM PDT
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> I've just finished recompiling a fresh radiance tarball with mingw,  
> and
> also under cygwin and linux.
>
> The behaviour of vwrays+rtcontrib is similar with both cygwin and
> linux, that is -fa and -ff work perfectly.
>
> It is only with the mingw binaries that I have problems, or I should
> probably say that it is a limitation of the windows command shell,
> that doesn't seem to handle concatenation of binary input/output ...
> The more I use windows, the less I want to use it ...
>
> I think I only need to test the mingw binaries from the cygwin shell
> to identify the problem and prove what my intuition is suggesting ...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Francesco