Unix emulator

Dear forum,

Will Radiance work on a Unix emulator, say Exceed and Exceed 3D on Windows XP? Sorry of this question is irrelevant.

Thanks.

Jun

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Will Radiance work on a Unix emulator, say Exceed and Exceed 3D on Windows XP? Sorry of this question is irrelevant.

Hi Jun,

Exceed is not a Unix emulator, but a X-Server. That means it can be used to display GUI-windows, most probably also those by Radiance. However, you still need to provide a rudimentary unix environment, unless you run the Radiance binary on a remote system and use the Xserver only for the Gui (e.g. by tunnelling the X-protocol through a X-session. That works fine with Radiance as any X-based program.

Cheers, Lars.

Dear Jun,

Exceed is not a Unix emulator, but a X-Server. That means it can be used
to display GUI-windows, most probably also those by Radiance. However,
you still need to provide a rudimentary unix environment, unless you run
the Radiance binary on a remote system and use the Xserver only for the
Gui (e.g. by tunnelling the X-protocol through a X-session. That works
fine with Radiance as any X-based program.

You will find a section titled 'Running Radiance on Windows' in my
'Running LEARNIX' document which you can access here:

http://www.jaloxa.eu/mirrors/learnix/docs.shtml

The instructions walk you through compiling Radiance under Windows in
a Cygwin enivironment, and also detail how to get the Xserver running.

An alternative would be to run LINUX in a virtual machine such as
VirtualBox. This will allow you to use rpiece (or, more conveniently,
rpictmt which is a wrapper around rpiece) to utilise all processor
cores for parallel rendering. I'm doing this every day because my
machine at work has Windows on it. It works rather nicely. This
approach is also explained in the same document.

Cheers

Axel

Thanks Lars!

I was stuck at a step during installation of Cygwin and MinGW and was looking for other options. Guess I'll have to resume the installation and might probably ask the forum again if I can't make it work.

Thanks again,
Jun

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Lars O. Grobe" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:55:25
To: Radiance general discussion<[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] Unix emulator

Will Radiance work on a Unix emulator, say Exceed and Exceed 3D on Windows XP? Sorry of this question is irrelevant.

Hi Jun,

Exceed is not a Unix emulator, but a X-Server. That means it can be used
to display GUI-windows, most probably also those by Radiance. However,
you still need to provide a rudimentary unix environment, unless you run
the Radiance binary on a remote system and use the Xserver only for the
Gui (e.g. by tunnelling the X-protocol through a X-session. That works
fine with Radiance as any X-based program.

Cheers, Lars.

Dear Axel,

There's a wealth of info in there. Will try them out. Thanks a bunch!

Best regards,
Jun

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-----Original Message-----
From: Axel Jacobs [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 4:22 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] Unix emulator

Dear Jun,

Exceed is not a Unix emulator, but a X-Server. That means it can be used
to display GUI-windows, most probably also those by Radiance. However,
you still need to provide a rudimentary unix environment, unless you run
the Radiance binary on a remote system and use the Xserver only for the
Gui (e.g. by tunnelling the X-protocol through a X-session. That works
fine with Radiance as any X-based program.

You will find a section titled 'Running Radiance on Windows' in my
'Running LEARNIX' document which you can access here:

http://www.jaloxa.eu/mirrors/learnix/docs.shtml

The instructions walk you through compiling Radiance under Windows in
a Cygwin enivironment, and also detail how to get the Xserver running.

An alternative would be to run LINUX in a virtual machine such as
VirtualBox. This will allow you to use rpiece (or, more conveniently,
rpictmt which is a wrapper around rpiece) to utilise all processor
cores for parallel rendering. I'm doing this every day because my
machine at work has Windows on it. It works rather nicely. This
approach is also explained in the same document.

Cheers

Axel