[Bf-committers] Libs on windows?

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Chad Fraleigh <chadf at triularity.org> wrote:
> iconv doesn't seem to be used for windows [blender] builds. The only
> place I see it in the cmake config is for "if(APPLE)", and even then
> it is only a -liconv entry (so a system lib I assume). So is this
> something that isn't used anymore (and should be removed from
> trunk/lib/win*), a windows lib added but never included in the cmake
> config, or something that is needed by other lib (that I have yet to
> try compiling) and gets inlined into their dll?

It seems indeed this is not used anymore and was replaced by boost locale.

> Is OSL currently working for windows? When I enabled WITH_CYCLES_OSL
> (in VS2008/32-bit) it crashes with some invalid pointer when I start
> blender.

It's working with the library in svn now, not sure why it crashes for
you. Make sure to match all the build options from build.bat for OSL
and OIIO.

> Also, just wondering.. what determines if something goes in
> blender/extern/ vs lib/xxxxx/?

I think usually things go into extern if there is no maintained
library can be expected to become a linux package, or if it's a small
library. But there is no clear rule that is always applied.

Brecht.