[Bf-committers] building with opensubdiv using mingw

[Mike Erwin]

With Visual Studio now free (as in beer) for small teams and open source
projects, that takes away one major reason to keep using MinGW. Yes Visual
Studio is a much larger beast than any command-line compiler, but it's
pretty nice to use.

Mike Erwin
musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> MinGW has been in (semi) broken state for some months now, since some
> libraries are missing.
>
> This is noted on the build page:
>
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Building_Blender/Windows/MinGW/CMake
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > There's currently no precompiled OpenSubdiv libraries for mingw.
> >
> > As for the future -- i don't really think we'll keep maintaining mingw
> > libraries. This is because mingw was proven to have obscure issues which
> > makes blender builds unstable. Think we'd be moving to clang rather than
> > keeping trying to use mingw.
> >
> > But that's my vision of the situation, maybe Antony (who was the main guy
> > maintaining mingw builds) has different input here.
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Yousef Harfoush <bat3a at msn.com> wrote:
> >
> >> hi
> >>
> >> i tried to build opensubdiv with scons and mingw but it seems that the
> >> libraries are not found in the mingw lib folder, is it supported on this
> >> compiler? if not will it be? thank you.
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Yousef Harfoush
> >> bat3a at msn.com
> >>
> >>
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