[Bf-committers] Libraries update

[Sergey Sharybin]

Hey everyone,

Just a quick update:

Linux release environment is now using new versions of FFmpeg, Boost, OIIO
and OSL.

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Bastien Montagne <montagne29 at wanadoo.fr>
wrote:

> Since we are in updating mood (and current 'official' ffmpeg 2.1.5
> version does not build with latest vpx lib),
> we decided to also bump ffmpeg to latest stable version: 2.8.4.
>
> Install_deps.sh will be updated now, only needs a few new link options. ;)
>
> Le 07/01/2016 16:27, Sergey Sharybin a écrit :
> > Hey,
> >
> > This mail is mainly to the platform maintainers, but might be interesting
> > for other guys around as well.
> >
> > Proposal is to update the following libraries:
> >
> > - Boost to 1.60 (will bring some fixes required to make OpenVDB work, see
> > some earlier discussion in the list)
> > - OIIO to 1.6.9 (will bring fixes to such areas as alpha handling in
> > Jpeg2000)
> > - OSL to 1.6.9 (general improvements, fixes, optimizations etc)
> >
> > it also seems a good idea to set USE_SIMD to sse2 for both OIIO and OSL,
> > this should give some additional improvements. (Unfortunately, we can't
> go
> > higher than SSE2 because OIIO/OSL does nto do runtime checks and our
> > current requirement is SSE2 CPUs, using higher optimization will make
> > Blender unusable).
> >
> > LLVM we can't really update yet, OSL requires it to be compiled with
> C++11
> > when using LLVM newer than 3.4 series. So will propose to keep LLVM
> version
> > unchanged for now.
> >
>
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With best regards, Sergey Sharybin