[Bf-committers] [Idea] MinGW Cycles cpu kernel in MSVC builds

[Cezary Kopias]

I think some mingw-w64 guys on irc where writing that they did some tests  
with msvc.
Maybe it would be a good idea to check on this. The benefit is work the  
effort.


On Mon, 27 May 2013 23:01:53 +0200, Jürgen Herrmann <shadowrom at me.com>  
wrote:

> While writing an answer to another thread I had an insane idea:
>
> Maybe if we had a possibility to compile the cycles CPU kernel lib with  
> mingw and link it into a version of blender built with MSVC we would get  
> a blender build with insane speed improvements on windows while getting  
> a good OpenMP performance on the rest of blender.
>
> What do you guys think? Linking to mingw libs in MSVC 2012 is possible  
> and harmless as long as we don't use win api calls inside the lib.
> This should work great for cycles' CPU kernel lib.
> The only question is how can we do this without having to manually  
> replace the lib file?
>
> /Jürgen
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