[Bf-committers] Blender cmake build/execute issues

[Erwin Coumans]

Indeed, those build instructions were exclusively using scons.

I added a brief note about cmake + MSVC and mentioned the INSTALL target:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Doc/Building_Blender/Windows


Thanks,
Erwin



On 12 March 2011 15:31, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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