[Bf-committers] Blender building software

Jacob Merrill blueprintrandom1 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 19:42:49 CET 2014


Call me special, but why not make a .batch that does this in two clicks?

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 2:24 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Bjørnar Frøyse <bjornar24 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I had some trouble setting it up on Windows, even after reading the guide
> > several times over.
> > I am not a software developer per se, but I am familiar with many aspects
> > of the process.
> > Compiling my own source was a completely new experience.
> >
> > My main misunderstanding was that I did not get/understand the
> relationship
> > between Cmake and VS.
> > I did not know that I had to generate a solution using Cmake (I had no
> idea
> > what Cmake was,
> > and the info on their site was, understandably, geared towards people who
> > already know what it is).
> >
> > This might fall under programming 101, and might not be something that
> you
> > should need
> > to cover on the wiki. (It might even work as a filter for people who are
> in
> > over their head.)
> >
> > Right now, there's so much info on the page (refering to the Windows page
> > here:
> >
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Building_Blender/Windows/msvc/CMake
> > )
> > that it's hard to make out what part is the important one to get started,
> > at least for
> > someone new to compiling in general.
> >
> > Having the default standard build process highlighted and defined in a
> few
> > numbered steps
> > would have been a much clearer starting point for me.
> >
> > That's my two cents on the matter.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Even if this is from lack of experience, Id be curious to know
> >> specifics about which steps in the docs newer devs trip-up on, it may
> >> be the docs can be improved to avoid others running into similar
> >> errors.
> >>
> >> --
> >> - Campbell
>
> MSVC docs are very poorly maintained, we just don't have many active
> devs using Windows as far as I can tell, so these docs lag behind.
>
> Its still referring to MSVC2008 and MinGW on this page... why?
>
> Even so, I don't think you should have to understand exactly whats
> going on between (cmake/msvc/nvcc... etc) just to get a working build.
> With well written instructions you should be able to follow them and
> build Blender without too much trouble.
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