[Radiance-dev] Compiling rsensor on Windows

[Rob Guglielmetti]

Francesco Anselmo wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> Very timely ;-) Zack also asked me about this :-)
>   
Gee, what are the odds?

> I have been trying to make a mingw binary package with yesterday's HEAD
> snapshot 
> from the CVS, but a few things have changed in the source code since
> 3R8, and
> I am still trying to find my way around them.
>   

Oh, so you're closer to doing this than I had thought based on your 
earlier reply to Zack.  Great!

> rsensor needs libraycalls, libradiance and librtrad, so these have to be
> compiled first, doing an rmake inside src/common and src/rt, and perhaps
> crossing your fingers ;-)
>   

Thanks for letting me know I wasn't nearly as close to success as I 
thought I was...  ~8-/

> In reality, the best approach I have found is to use scons.
> Unfortunately
> the last changes done on the Sconscript files are two years old 
> (schorsch, where are you? we really miss you!) so I am patching things
> here and there to get the core programs compiled.
>
> I hope to be successful soon, and I'll post my findings to the Radiance
> Wiki.
>   

OK, I will leave this in your far more capable hands.  Please do share 
your success!

- Rob

P.S.
Francesco, you'll be happy to know I am teaching my dog some commands in 
Italian now; for example, when the licking is a little bit too much, we 
say "basta"!