[Bf-committers] How to build official binaries for Blender

[Brecht Van Lommel]

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Jürgen Herrmann <shadowrom at me.com> wrote:
> I got cuda 5.0 to work with VS 2012 today.
>
> I would like to provide official builds for 2.68.
>
> What do I have to do then?

At the moment not much, maybe it would be good to have this officially
confirmed but I guess the Window maintainer (Thomas) is ok with it.
When we get near the end of the 2.68 release cycles there will be a
test build that will be announced on the mailing list here, and then
you can make the build and uploaded it somewhere, and then someone
will copy it to download.blender.org/release/Blender2.68

> Is there any special build config I have to do?

The buildbot builds are the default scons configuration + CUDA
binaries, not sure if there are any other options enabled or if
redistributable files need to be copied somewhere. Thomas does the
official builds so he would know about this.

> How do I provide an installer?

Install the NSIS Installer software, and then run "python
scons/scons.py nsis" to create the installer.

Brecht.