[Bf-committers] building with opensubdiv using mingw

[Mike Erwin]

Ok Sergey and Cezary, you've given good reasons to keep MinGW as a working
alternative on Windows. GCC vs Clang produce similar performance on Linux
(with GCC a little bit better). That's the only platform I've used that
supports both compilers out of the box, so haven't compared on other
platforms. Has anyone tried Clang on Windows?

Also good point about Microsoft being slower at language standards.
Switched to VS 2015 for that very reason.

Mike Erwin
musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Cezary Kopias <cezary.kopias at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I`m using mingw on a daily basis in my amateur 'production'
> (some things don't work but its nothing that I am using) ...
>
> ...its the same story every time:
> 1. its faster (cycles cpu render, booleans = linux speed)
> 2. its compact and portable.
>
> We have now OpenSubD... next is OpenVDB, Ptex...
> and after that i will consider a good comeback of mingw.
>
> P.S. I know nothing of clang but maybe could be a good substitute
>
> On 23 September 2015 at 21:15, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > This is true, but it's not all truth :)
> >
> > For a long time gcc even from mingw was producing much better assembly
> than
> > msvc. Even today msvc requires some annoying poking around with all sort
> of
> > weird and wonderful workarounds forbetter performance. Plus it's a bit
> slow
> > about all the language extensions and such. From this point of view clang
> > seems interesting to test.
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Mike Erwin <significant.bit at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> 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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> >> > >
> >> > >
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