I had some trouble setting it up on Windows, even after reading the guide several times over. I am not a software developer per se, but I am familiar with many aspects of the process. Compiling my own source was a completely new experience.
My main misunderstanding was that I did not get/understand the relationship between Cmake and VS. I did not know that I had to generate a solution using Cmake (I had no idea what Cmake was, and the info on their site was, understandably, geared towards people who already know what it is). This might fall under programming 101, and might not be something that you should need to cover on the wiki. (It might even work as a filter for people who are in over their head.) Right now, there's so much info on the page (refering to the Windows page here: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Building_Blender/Windows/msvc/CMake ) that it's hard to make out what part is the important one to get started, at least for someone new to compiling in general. Having the default standard build process highlighted and defined in a few numbered steps would have been a much clearer starting point for me. That's my two cents on the matter. On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Campbell Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Even if this is from lack of experience, Id be curious to know > specifics about which steps in the docs newer devs trip-up on, it may > be the docs can be improved to avoid others running into similar > errors. > > -- > - Campbell > _______________________________________________ > 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
