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Benchmark requires installation on Windows

Open c-lipka opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

According to the documentation, as of v3.7 the benchmark should run without having to actually install POV-Ray, and with just the executable binary present.

This is actually not the case for POV-Ray for Windows. Instead, unless a similar version of POV-Ray has already been installed earlier, running POV-Ray for Windows with the /BENCHMARK switch will prompt an error message:

ERROR : Cannot find Home entry in registry (and cannot infer it)

This entry should have been set by the installation program.

POV-Ray can usually infer the installation path but that requires a standard layout of directories, which also seems to be absent.

If you did not install using the correct installation procedure, please do this before running POV-Ray for Windows. You can also try running with the '/INSTALL' or '/INSTALL <bindir> [<docdir>]' option.

c-lipka avatar Jul 01 '17 13:07 c-lipka

For the records: This is long-standing behavior, and I suspect it might be non-trivial to fix, so I'm quite confident that we don't want to mess with this as we're preparing for v3.8.0 release. However, we should amend the documention accordingly.

c-lipka avatar Jun 16 '21 14:06 c-lipka