[Bf-docboard] Developer build guides

Raistlin Masjere errantkid at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 19:49:21 CET 2006


Hi all! I was thinking that adding a building guide to the dev wiki
tutorials would be very nice.

You'd have a main page with a matrix of platforms and build tools, like so:

                      win32     linux      solaris    MacOS     (etc)
scons/mingw   <link>        -            -            -
scons/gcc           -        <link>     <link>    <link>
scons/msvc     <link>        -            -            -
make/mingw    <link>        -            -            -
make/gcc            -        <link>     <link>    <link>
msvc               <link>        -            -            -

(etc)

Along with some general links to e.g. the scons documentation, and how
to do patches, cvs etc.

Then for each page linked there's a standard step-by-step layout
kind-of like this one:
http://www.blender.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=50063#50063

The pages should also contain links to other external guides about the
same topic (especially if the tutorial is still a stub)

The big advantage of wiki pages for this (as opposed to the current
(out-of-date) blender guide pages) is that it can be updated by anyone
whenever they encounter (and hopefully solve) a new problem. This
would be a big help for new developers. What do you think? I am able
to do the build guide page & the scons/mingw page at least.

-snow


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