I guess I have to wait for the buildbot. I didn't manage to compile Alembic on my system (Fedora20). Is there an estimated time when you want to set it up? thx, Thomas
> Lukas Tönne <[email protected]> hat am 3. März 2015 um 13:49 geschrieben: > > > Martijn Berger (Juicyfruit) has done a great job making an Alembic fork on > github, to get rid of all the annoying cmake errors in Alembic sources. > > https://github.com/martijnberger/alembic > > A pull request has been made to try and get these changes into Alembic. For > the time being i would suggest using Martijn's version, which apart from > build file fixes is the same as official Alembic. > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Lukas Tönne <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I didn't manage to compile with scons yet, but that's mostly because of > > library path issues and time constraints on my side. The buildbot also uses > > scons, so if there are remaining issues we will fix them in the process of > > getting the buildbot updated. > > > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Piotr Arlukowicz < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> 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 > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
