[Bf-committers] Job stoppers! Need a decision urgent :(

Thomas Dinges blender at dingto.org
Tue May 14 23:15:18 CEST 2013


Hi,
I would also not rush things. We can provide vc2012 builds for 2.68 as 
optional binaries for testing, but for official usage it's too early.
We also have to wait for nvidia, to support vc2012 for the CUDA kernels.

Thomas

Am 14.05.2013 23:11, schrieb Brecht Van Lommel:
> Don't we have plenty of time to work out issues before we build an
> official release with vs2012? If we use it for 2.68 that's still about
> 2 months away.
>
> Anyway, the solution is to solve these crashes, either by figuring out
> why it crashes and trying to fix that, or using newer libraries. I
> don't know what the cause of the crash is, or why 3D sound doesn't
> work with OpenAL-soft. But this can be investigated, both OpenAL-soft
> and Jack are open source, just needs a developer to spend some time on
> this.
>
> Brecht.
>
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Jürgen Herrmann <shadowrom at me.com> wrote:
>> I found new job stoppers on VS2012 ... Again!
>> First if all OpenAL is old (2009) and makes blender Crash on windows 8 64bit system, when blender is compiled with VC11.
>> Possible solution: switch to OpenAL-soft and. That could actually break 3D sound.
>>
>> Second: Jack, same problem here'
>> Possible solution: Try to recompile libjack with newer MinGW and patches to the lib...
>> and hope that it works.
>>
>> Another solution for both problems would be to stay with VC2008 or we don't support Win8 64 (bad choices IMHO)
>>
>> We could also disable these libs and ship blender without them, I think this will bring us the wrath of many users...
>>
>> I need help with this decisions.
>>
>> /Jürgen
>>
>>
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