WOW, that's a long awaited news! Thank you Lucas!!! what about scons integration? Can I check this out?
regards Pio Piotr Arlukowicz, BFCT *YT: /user/piotao?feature=guide* *FB:* */polskikursblendera* *TW:* */piotao* *Blender Network:* *https://www.blendernetwork.org/piotr-arlukowicz <https://www.blendernetwork.org/piotr-arlukowicz>* *Polski Kurs Blendera:* http://polskikursblendera.pl 2015-03-02 19:24 GMT+01:00 Lukas Tönne <[email protected]>: > It's about to get real! > > The Gooseberry team would like to start using the new caching system with > Alembic ASAP. This means that we should make sure Alembic dependencies and > the library itself can be properly built and linked by Blender. First goal > is Linux (since we use it in the Blender Institute), but of course it > should work on all platforms. To avoid confusion i will specify exactly > which versions we need to use. > > The plan is to first merge the Alembic branch into our gooseberry branch > for testing and refinement. However, setting up Alembic build systems on > the official buildbot and release build systems would help avoid future > problems and smooth out the procedure of merging with master later on. > > > As a template for working around build system quirks the usual > install_deps.sh script is available. This builds the Alembic library on a > standard Ubuntu 14.10 installation. In addition, it tweaks a couple of > build files in the Alembic sources in order to disable certain parts that > have badly defined build scripts (examples, tests) - there may be more > proper ways of treating these build file issues. > > First a couple of links: > > Official Alembic site: > http://alembic.io/ > > The branch on phabricator: > https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/repository/alembic_pointcache/ > Can be checked out using: > git clone git://git.blender.org/blender.git -b alembic_pointcache > > The main Alembic section of the install_deps.sh script (see XXX parts ...): > > https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/alembic_pointcache/build_files/build_environment/install_deps.sh;1a9c74a3a8fcd4dda3ec2ca09b3fd00e85cb0627$1733 > > The Alembic version we use is 1.5.5 (official release), which can be > checked out using mercurial/hg like so: > hg clone -u 1_05_05 https://code.google.com/p/alembic/ <target dir> > > > The README.txt file in the Alembic source directory mentions the principle > build procedure and dependencies. > https://code.google.com/p/alembic/source/browse/README.txt?name=1_05_05 > All of the mandatory dependencies are already part of the standard Blender > dependencies in their required versions, so no major additions other than > Alembic itself should be needed. For reference, here are the required > dependencies of Alembic with their minimum versions (as stated in their > README) and the current versions installed by Blender's install_deps.sh > script: > > Alembic minimum Blender Ubuntu 14.10 > Boost 1.44.0 1.51.0 > IlmBase 1.0.3 2.2.0 > HDF5 1.8.9 ----- 1.8.12 > OpenEXR 1.7.1 2.2.0 > zlib (unspecified) (unspecified) 1.2.8 > > HDF5 is entirely optional and can be installed to enable this container > format for file storage. The branch now uses the Ogawa format by default, > which seems to have become the new standard backend (and does not need > additional libraries). The default system version of HDF5 on ubuntu also > seems to work fine ('libhdf5-7' package). > > > Blender itself has 2 new build options: > WITH_ALEMBIC : Build with Alembic caching support. Currently this is needed > for the branch to work, otherwise there is no available implementation of > the cache interface and a number of functions would probably crash trying > to access a NULL pointer. > WITH_HDF5 : Optional linking with HDF5. This backend is not used atm, so > the build option should not be needed. > > New cmake modules FindAlembic.cmake and FindHDF5.cmake have been added to > simplify setting up library and include paths for Blender builds. > > > I would very much appreciate help in ironing out remaining issues and > getting libraries for OSX and Windows set up. > Thank you! > _______________________________________________ > 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
