[Bf-committers] building the bmesh branch

[Nathan Letwory]

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On 18.8.2010 22:02, Michael McLay wrote:
> The bmesh branch will not build using scons. The problem has to do with
> library linking order when building the blender executable. The files
> source/blender/modifiers/intern/MOD_mirror.c  and
> source/blender/modifiers/intern/MOD_array.c call CDDM_To_BMesh(dm, NULL),
> which is located in the
> bf_blenkernel.a library. Since this library is linked before the library
> containing the object files from MOD_array.c and MOD_mirror.c the name
> CDDM_To_BMesh is never resolved. Adding bf_blenkernel.a to the end of the
> list of libraries passed into BlenderProg in SConstruct fixes the linking
> problem. There's probably a more elegant way to do this, but at least this
> makes it possible to build the bmesh version of Blender.

A better fix is to modify the SConscript for blenkernel and set its
priority so that it comes after modifier; higher number is later in link
list. Check the SConscript for modifier/ to find what priority is for it.

/Nathan


> 
> === modified file 'blender/SConstruct'
> --- blender/SConstruct    2010-07-20 13:00:41 +0000
> +++ blender/SConstruct    2010-08-18 18:36:15 +0000
> @@ -408,7 +408,7 @@
>  thesyslibs = B.setup_syslibs(env)
> 
>  if 'blender' in B.targets or not env['WITH_BF_NOBLENDER']:
> -    env.BlenderProg(B.root_build_dir, "blender", dobj + mainlist +
> thestatlibs, [], thesyslibs, [B.root_build_dir+'/lib'] + thelibincs,
> 'blender')
> +    env.BlenderProg(B.root_build_dir, "blender", dobj + mainlist +
> thestatlibs + [B.root_build_dir+'/lib/libbf_blenkernel.a'], [], thesyslibs,
> [B.root_build_dir+'/lib'] + thelibincs, 'blender')
>  if env['WITH_BF_PLAYER']:
>      playerlist = B.create_blender_liblist(env, 'player')
>      playerlist += B.create_blender_liblist(env, 'intern')
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Nathan Letwory
Letwory Interactive
http://www.letworyinteractive.com
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