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

[Jürgen Herrmann]

Hi yousef,

I am just trying to help because i really like blender. 
As for optimization, this would be a subject for a deep inspection of blenders code base. I think every compiler hat it pros and cons. In the end they all do the same.
MinGW/GCC is faster than msvc with floating point operations.
Therefore MSVC is faster on integer ops.
The ms compilers have much better support for the win api, that's why we have problems with OpenMP and mingw.
I would love to give Intels compiler a try with blender, but it's so expensive :(
In the end it is all philosophy.

As you said the IDE is top notch and the debugger is great.
VC 2012 express even has a code analysis feature that seems to be quite good.

/Jürgen


Am 27.05.2013 um 21:23 schrieb Yousef Hurfoush <bat3a at msn.com>:

> i don't know how much code cycles needs to work with msvc compiler as good as the mingw, and also would like to get away from closed/property  compilers, as OSS mingw is the better choice.
> 
> but thanks man, the vs2012 ide is very good to work with for devlopment.
> Regards
> Yousef Harfoush
> bat3a at msn.com
> 
> 
> 
>> From: shadowrom at me.com
>> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 21:14:59 +0200
>> To: bf-committers at blender.org
>> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] How to build official binaries for Blender
>> 
>> You might be right, but imho it is much harder to make mingw support OpenMP on windows than to optimize blender for MSVC ;)
>> 
>> Am 27.05.2013 um 20:59 schrieb Yousef Hurfoush <bat3a at msn.com>:
>> 
>>> 
>>>> Any volunteers to donate msvc2012 license to BF or maybe someone wants to
>>>> sacrifice his computer's cpu power to run msvc2012 slave? :)
>>> there is no need for a license the express edition compiles x86, x86_64 by default, so it's just the matte of downloading one from ms site, you'll get a free serial to activate.
>>>>> I think we should stick with MSVC on Windows and work on cycles
>>>>> optimization for MSVC. Because MSVC builds are faster in BI, physics and
>>>>> other parts of Blender.
>>> 
>>> well that's because of the openmp issue, if it is resolved then i'm sure it will be faster than the msvc one.
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> Yousef Harfoush
>>> bat3a at msn.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 00:52:08 +0600
>>>> From: sergey.vfx at gmail.com
>>>> To: bf-committers at blender.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] How to build official binaries for Blender
>>>> 
>>>> Would also be good to have msvc2012 buildslave. But this is tricky =\
>>>> 
>>>> Any volunteers to donate msvc2012 license to BF or maybe someone wants to
>>>> sacrifice his computer's cpu power to run msvc2012 slave? :)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Jürgen Herrmann <shadowrom at me.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Yousef,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am currently working on documentation for that. But NVidia will release
>>>>> Cuda 5.5 RC soon so it might be unnecessary.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think we should stick with MSVC on Windows and work on cycles
>>>>> optimization for MSVC. Because MSVC builds are faster in BI, physics and
>>>>> other parts of Blender.
>>>>> 
>>>>> /Jürgen
>>>>> 
>>>>> Am 27.05.2013 um 19:57 schrieb Yousef Hurfoush <bat3a at msn.com>:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> hi
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> can you show me how to use cuda 5 with vs 2012? i want to use compile
>>>>> with mingw64, and the old abandon vs2008.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> i think concentrating on getting mingw64 use openmp is better than
>>>>> supporting any msvc compiler!
>>>>>> i mean the huge difference in render time alone makes mingw64 a killer
>>>>> compiler!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> but it still useful in coding and debugging, thanks for porting to it.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> Yousef Harfoush
>>>>>> bat3a at msn.com
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> From: shadowrom at me.com
>>>>>>> To: bf-committers at blender.org
>>>>>>> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 17:56:19 +0200
>>>>>>> Subject: [Bf-committers] How to build official binaries for Blender
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Is there any special build config I have to do?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> How do I provide an installer?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> /Jürgen
>>>>>>> 
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