Hey, just a note I've been running VS2010 Win64 + Scons without issue until recently. The current issues are around changes to the OpenEXR header layout (VS2008 & VS2010 don't have the same layout) & the OSL lib's not using path-less references into OpenEXR (I can just turn off OpenEXR & OSL for now). Also there is no python33.lib yet.
Is there a full build script for the VS2010 libs? Or is it just a matter DL-ing and compiling each by hand? Other than the docs about switches at https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/lib/win64/Readme.txt are there is there anything to help in doing this task? A continuous build or such? Also, just to point out VS2008 is hitting end of life. VS2008 Pro has a date of April 9, 2013. http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/?sort=PN&alpha=Visual+Studio. I imagine 2008 Express will be similar. A switch to VS2012 Express might not be a bad thing to look at in the near future. Not a small task but an important one. VS2008 won't suddenly stop working at this date but it will get increasingly harder to get any kind of support. Is there a team in place to do a VS2012 update? I would be willing to help out with this if you need the people. Dean On 2012.12.05 10:21 PM, Brecht Van Lommel wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Chad Fraleigh <[email protected]> wrote: >> While attempting to setup various environments in which I could >> edit/build/test source pulled from trunk, I came across some issues: >> >> The wiki directions for FreeBSD >> (http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Doc/Building_Blender/FreeBSD) >> are now incomplete (for trunk at least). Since blender now seems to >> require python 3.3 and [currently] FreeBSD's ports system only has up >> to 3.2, it would require the developer to manually compile and install >> the newer python first. Up through blender 2.64 still seems ok. > There's not many people building on FreeBSD, so indeed this can get > out of date. Any help keeping it updated is welcome, most of the > active developers don't have FreeBSD installations. > >> The directions for Windows says to use Visual Studio 2008 and states >> that the 2010 version doesn't work. However they now have a 2012 >> version. So.. has anyone tried it with 2012 yet? If I try it, would it >> be obvious that it's broke (like a compile error), or something more >> subtle like blender crashes (or acts strange) when run? > The precompiled libraries (lib/ directory in svn) are specific to the > visual studio version. We have 2008 libraries for everything, 2010 > usually lags behind a bit, and no 2012 ones yet. I'm not sure about > the compatibility between 2010 and 2012, but it might be that all > libraries need to be rebuild specifically for 2012 to work. > > There might be compile errors when building too, but they're likely > only minor problems, the big job is getting the precompiled libraries. > > Brecht. > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
