[Bf-committers] Development Environments

[Dean Giberson]

Hey, just a note I've been running VS2010 Win64 + Scons without issue 
until recently. The current issues are around changes to the OpenEXR 
header layout (VS2008 & VS2010 don't have the same layout) & the OSL 
lib's not using path-less references into OpenEXR (I can just turn off 
OpenEXR & OSL for now). Also there is no python33.lib yet.

Is there a full build script for the VS2010 libs? Or is it just a matter 
DL-ing and compiling each by hand? Other than the docs about switches at 
https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/lib/win64/Readme.txt 
are there is there anything to help in doing this task? A continuous 
build or such?

Also, just to point out VS2008 is hitting end of life. VS2008 Pro has a 
date of April 9, 2013. 
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/?sort=PN&alpha=Visual+Studio. 
I imagine 2008 Express will be similar. A switch to VS2012 Express might 
not be a bad thing to look at in the near future. Not a small task but 
an important one. VS2008 won't suddenly stop working at this date but it 
will get increasingly harder to get any kind of support.

Is there a team in place to do a VS2012 update? I would be willing to 
help out with this if you need the people.

Dean

On 2012.12.05 10:21 PM, Brecht Van Lommel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Chad Fraleigh <chadf at triularity.org> wrote:
>> While attempting to setup various environments in which I could
>> edit/build/test source pulled from trunk, I came across some issues:
>>
>> The wiki directions for FreeBSD
>> (http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Doc/Building_Blender/FreeBSD)
>> are now incomplete (for trunk at least). Since blender now seems to
>> require python 3.3 and [currently] FreeBSD's ports system only has up
>> to 3.2, it would require the developer to manually compile and install
>> the newer python first. Up through blender 2.64 still seems ok.
> There's not many people building on FreeBSD, so indeed this can get
> out of date. Any help keeping it updated is welcome, most of the
> active developers don't have FreeBSD installations.
>
>> The directions for Windows says to use Visual Studio 2008 and states
>> that the 2010 version doesn't work. However they now have a 2012
>> version. So.. has anyone tried it with 2012 yet? If I try it, would it
>> be obvious that it's broke (like a compile error), or something more
>> subtle like blender crashes (or acts strange) when run?
> The precompiled libraries (lib/ directory in svn) are specific to the
> visual studio version. We have 2008 libraries for everything, 2010
> usually lags behind a bit, and no 2012 ones yet. I'm not sure about
> the compatibility between 2010 and 2012, but it might be that all
> libraries need to be rebuild specifically for 2012 to work.
>
> There might be compile errors when building too, but they're likely
> only minor problems, the big job is getting the precompiled libraries.
>
> Brecht.
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