[Bf-committers] cmake OS X blender

[Shaul Kedem]

Hi,
 I sent an email about xcode 4 and cmake and how to configure it.

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.blender.devel/30039

shul

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Regarding the make stub. Yes, its no use for windows, though if
> someone want to make blender on OSX they can use this instead of XCode
> (assuming they just want to get blender built with minimum fuss).
>
> The newly added message blender prints out will show before crashing,
>  fprintf(stderr, "Warning! bundled python not found and is expected on
> this platform. (if you built with CMake: 'install' target may have not
> been built)\n");
>
> With this and docs giving steps to building blender correctly, this
> should be enough.
>
> Realize this is frustrating since we didn't even have CMake/MSVC docs
> at the time
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Erwin Coumans <erwin.coumans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This doesn't help IDE developers using msvc and xcode.
>>
>> There is no message, just a crash.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, 30 March 2011, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Benjamin Tolputt
>>> <btolputt at internode.on.net> wrote:
>>>> On 30/03/2011 5:12 PM, Erwin Coumans wrote:
>>>>> i reported the same problem under Windows (cmake/msvc) on this list recently.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why is an INSTALL target needed? I'm not installing Blender system wide.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can't we simply copy those files using something like below?
>>>>
>>>> I'm interested in knowing the same thing. Whilst not a major hassle on
>>>> OSX (unless this is copying library files around my system - in which
>>>> case I strongly object!), I cannot understand why the old ability to
>>>> build Blender and have it "just work" has been deliberately removed.
>>>>
>>>> It would be one thing if I were asking for something that didn't exist
>>>> before (given the change involves only a minor hassle) but, from what I
>>>> can tell, a previously better situation has been deliberately made
>>>> worse. What do we get in exchange for the added hassle?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Benjamin Tolputt
>>>> Analyst Programmer
>>>
>>> For discussion on this topic & reasons why I made this change see:
>>> http://markmail.org/message/z4iaqnut7qliphya
>>>
>>> Since then, the docs have been updated to include this info and I
>>> added a message for *nix/osx after make finishes.
>>>   now run: "make install" to copy runtime files & scripts to
>>> /data/src/blender/cmake_debug/bin/2.56
>>>
>>> But IDE's all work differently I guess this message isn't visible on XCode?
>>>
>>> For people who just want a working build without the hassle to setup
>>> up a cmake out-of-source build and running 'make ; make install' Ive
>>> added a stub makefile which does this for you.
>>>
>>> Running "make" in blenders source dir does a cmake build in a similar
>>> way to how scons just works.
>>>
>>> --
>>> - Campbell
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