[Bf-cycles] Cycles standalone repository

[Matthew Heimlich]

Nice! Excited to play around with this. I had two patches committed by
Thomas: square samples and the absolute value node. Thanks for getting this
up and running!

Matt Heimlich
On Nov 15, 2014 10:54 AM, "Sergey Sharybin" <sergey.vfx at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Last few evenings i've been working on making a dedicated repository for
> Cycles renderer and at this point it seems to be ready for public access
> now, even though some more work is required.
>
> = Motivation =
>
> Main motivation of creating standalone repository for Cycles is to
> simplify access for new developers who wants to hack into Cycles code but
> don't want to bother cloning the whole Blender repository and setting up
> environment for blender compilation.
>
> It was kind of possible to only compile Cycles from Blender repository as
> well, but that process was really tedious.
>
> = What repository contains =
>
> Repository contains the full history of Cycles, starting from the original
> commit to the Blender SVN. This means it's possible to track down every
> change in the sources. The only thing here is that it's not possible to
> compile old sources. This is because build system for standalone repository
> was added just now and trying to put it somewhere in the past was rather
> tricky.
>
> Sources are mainly a direct dump from Blender, so it shouldn't be
> difficult to keep Cycles in Blender and standalone repositories in sync.
> There are a bit of changes to build system which we'll need to backport to
> blender (namely CMake variables name convention).
>
> Repository contains README file which describes how to compile Cycles.
> Compilation is so called "works for me", so more tweaks are likely needed
> before compilation becomes flawless for everyone.
>
> *NOTE*: Windows is not supported atm! It's because of some dependencies
> which are not so clear to get. Mainly OpenGL, GLUT and GLEW. Don't worry,
> we will support Windows eventually, we just need to start from something!
>
> The repository also contains folder with .xml examples, so it's really
> easy to test render engine just after compilation.
>
> = Build system =
>
> Currently CMake is used as a build system, and likely it'll be it,
>
> = Where the repository is =
>
> It is on our server, read-only access is
>
>   git clone git://git.blender.org/cycles.git
>
> for write access (needs SSH key and you need to be a developer of the
> project)
>
>   git clone git at git.blender.org:cycles.git
>
> To browse repository online please visit:
>
>   https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/C/
>
> = Authors =
>
> The repository contains the file with everyone who contributed to Cycles.
> This is somewhat common for all open source projects to have such a file.
>
> Currently this file contains authors of commits, so if someone submitted
> patch which was committed by someone else please let me know -- that'd be
> easier than reading all the commit messages searching for such information.
>
> = Synchronization with Blender =
>
> Ideally we'll need to have some automated way to sync changes between
> Blender and Cycles, but it is not done yet. Exact way how to keep things in
> sync i'll publish later.
>
> For now we can do manual synchronization, which is not THAT bad.
>
> = Known TODOs =
>
> - Windows build is not supported at this moment.
> - Logging option is exposed as an option but wouldn't work now.
> - Installation target is not tested and would need more work.
> - Compiled .oso files are not put to the final location, so manual copy is
> required for now.
> - Set up mailing list for commits (if we need one?)
>
> I'm pretty much sure i forgot to put some information in this email which
> i wanted, but the mail becomes too long already, so i'd rather wrap up now
> and answer the questions as they arrive.
>
> --
> With best regards, Sergey Sharybin
>
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