[Bf-committers] SCons build system future

[Antony Riakiotakis]

I haven't built with MinGW for a long time, but it used to work.
cmake/MinGW was how I was doing development on windows at some point.

On 20/12/2015, Yousef Harfoush <bat3a at msn.com> wrote:
> is there a way to build blender using cmake and mingw?
>
> i read
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Building_Blender/Windows/MinGW/CMake
> but no instruction on how to build, only how to deal wih repos.
>
>
>
> Regards
> Yousef Harfoush
> bat3a at msn.com
>
>
>
>> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 16:37:20 +0100
>> From: kalast at gmail.com
>> To: bf-committers at blender.org
>> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] SCons build system future
>>
>> +1 to drop scons. It may be easy to setup for casual builders, but so
>> is cmake, if we provide good defaults.
>>
>> On 20/12/2015, Thomas Dinges <blender at dingto.org> wrote:
>> > I use SCons too, but I also use CMake from time to time, so it's not a
>> > big deal to switch over.
>> >
>> > Therefore, I fully support removing SCons. Not sure we really need to
>> > wait for 2.8x to do it though, imho it's fine to drop it now, we still
>> > need 1-2 months before a new 2.7x release I guess, should be time
>> > enough
>> > to communicate the change.
>> >
>> > Thomas
>> >
>> > Am 20.12.15 um 15:22 schrieb Mike Erwin:
>> >> I use SCons but support the idea of having only one build system.
>> >> Never
>> >> had
>> >> much luck building Blender with CMake but am willing to learn!
>> >>
>> >> -- Mike
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