[Bf-committers] Blender cmake build/execute issues

[Campbell Barton]

Looks like we don't have any docs on building 2.5 with CMake/MSVC,
otherwise I'd have added a note about this.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Doc/Building_Blender/Windows

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Erwin Coumans <erwin.coumans at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, I missed the INSTALL target, it wasn't run when doing a 'build all' or
> 'rebuild all'.
> Manually running it works indeed.
>
> Thank for the update Mitchell!
>
>
> On 12 March 2011 09:47, Mitchell Stokes <mogurijin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The INSTALL project/target will copy all the necessary file to wherever
>> you've built Blender (so not system-wide). Also, the SVN_EXECUTABLE is
>> simply used to get revision information to display in the splash screen, so
>> it's not a big deal if it's missing.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mitchell
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Erwin Coumans <erwin.coumans at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > OK, I manually copied the files from a recent graphicall.org build into
>> > 2.56.
>> >
>> > Also, there is a cmake warning/error like this:
>> >
>> > Blender Skipping: (bf_collada;extern_redcode)
>> > Could NOT find Subversion (missing: Subversion_SVN_EXECUTABLE)
>> >
>> >
>> > Did you consider using svn:externals instead?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Erwin
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 12 March 2011 08:42, Erwin Coumans <erwin.coumans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > Sorry if this has been asked before, but I just tried to build Blender
>> > > trunk, and run it,
>> > > but Blender crashes because it can't find the scripts and startup.blend
>> > >
>> > > Info: Config directory with "startup.blend" file not found.
>> > > Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec
>> > > LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding
>> > >
>> > > I don't want to 'install' Blender system-wide, because I'm compiling
>> and
>> > > running
>> > > several different Blender versions next to eachother, using cmake
>> > > out-of-source builds in various locations.
>> > >
>> > > 1) Is there no copy step that copies the scripts (etc) next to the
>> > > executable,
>> > >     for example using a cmake copy_if_different command?
>> > >
>> > > ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND( TARGET AppOpenCLClothDemo  POST_BUILD
>> > >  COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} ARGS -E copy_if_different
>> > > ${BULLET_PHYSICS_SOURCE_DIR}/GLUT32.DLL ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
>> > > )
>> > >
>> > > If there is no such copy step, what files/folders do we need to copy
>> > > manually?
>> > >
>> > > 2) Everytime you build, the project buildinfo is out-of-date and it
>> tries
>> > > to build it again. Is this really necessary?
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > Erwin
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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