[Bf-taskforce25] Getting started...

[Nicholas Bishop]

I've committed some cmake fixes to SVN, see if that helps.

-Nicholas

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Jim Bates <jsbates at pacbell.net> wrote:
> The "missing items" [35 last build] are defined as "external" in
> RNA_access.h and since it is just some and not all it would seem a build
> reference is missing (perhaps a flag).
>
> I've fiddled with various options for the make but still fail the link.
> BTW - setting "WITH_PLAYER" ON (for CMake) causes directory errors during
> the setup. So I'll see if I can noodle out what is in SCons and not the
> CMake lists to get the build to complete.
>
> I may have to concede for the time being and work with SCons to get past
> this sticking point :)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicholas Bishop" <nicholasbishop at gmail.com>
> To: "The Blender 2.5 TaskForce" <bf-taskforce25 at blender.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 4:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bf-taskforce25] Getting started...
>
>
>> Well, he already said he'd prefer not to use scons. (Also, r18184
>> won't make any difference, that's a different branch.)
>>
>> I'm having the same problem myself; at the moment I'm using an old
>> computer for compiling Blender, and I'd like to be able to build 2.5
>> using CMake, which is somewhat faster.
>>
>> Jim, I'm getting similar errors using gcc in Ubuntu. I'm fairly sure
>> that the missing definitions aren't in any external library, so
>> perhaps they're supposed to be dynamically generated? I'm still
>> investigating, I'll let you know if I figure anything out.
>>
>> -Nicholas
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Shaul Kedem <shaul.kedem at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Are you using Cmake to build the make? try using scons (and v18184 is
>>> already in there)
>>>
>>> did you successfully build 2.48 using this platform ?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Jim Bates <jsbates at pacbell.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've been using blender for a few months now and thought I'd try to help
>>>> out with the 2.5 rework/update.
>>>>
>>>> I downloaded the source branch a couple days ago (rev 18141 12/28) and
>>>> tried to do a build using CMake generated projects. After updating
>>>> several
>>>> project path entries for missing includes I finally got all the files to
>>>> compile but am stuck at makesrna linking due to missing externals, such
>>>> as:
>>>>
>>>> "rna_access.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol
>>>> _rna_IDProperty_doublearray"
>>>> "rna_access.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _BLENDER_RNA
>>>> referenced in function _RNA_exit"
>>>> "rna_access.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _RNA_Main
>>>> referenced in function _RNA_main_pointer_create"
>>>> "rna_access.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
>>>> _BLI_dynstr_free referenced in function _RNA_path_append"
>>>> Seems I'm missing a library, but after checking all the sites
>>>> and references I could think of, no sign of any other dependencies for
>>>> this
>>>> part of the project.
>>>>
>>>> Last build attempted 12/30/2008 using Rev 18183.
>>>>
>>>> The comments about using SCons as an "out of the box" build solution
>>>> would
>>>> be a last resort if that's the preferred solution for the project; I'd
>>>> like
>>>> to use CMake if possible. It could be something simple like a path but
>>>> nothing obvious to me.
>>>>
>>>> My configuration/environment:
>>>>
>>>> HP Pavilion m9150f, Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 3GB RAM, Windows Vista Home
>>>> Premium SP1 (11/23/2008) 32-bit, NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT.
>>>>
>>>> Microsoft VisualStudio 2005 C++; Version 8.0.50727.867.
>>>>
>>>> Tortoise SVN 1.5.5.14361
>>>>
>>>> Python 2.5 - I have this installed but the project references the
>>>> blender
>>>> lib\windows "version" for build)
>>>>
>>>> CMake 2.6
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> Any info on how to proceed is appreciated but if you have all the help
>>>> you
>>>> need and this is a distraction I understand and will continue to see if
>>>> I
>>>> can work this out on my own.
>>>>
>>>>
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