Hello!

I've recently picked up the code for RenderD, Blender's network rendering system, and begun the task of making it fully cross-platform, configurable, and giving it a GUI.

The first step for me is to make sure that what I'm doing doesn't break the code for other platforms: I work on OS X, and have no way to test Linux/Irix/Windows compatability.

What I am looking for are a few volunteers who are familiar with using CVS to checkout source and can do a build on their platform of choice who wouldn't mind building & testing RenderD to ensure that it's currently working before I commit the changes I've made thus far.

If you already HAVE a working RenderD build that's best, if you don't yet but are interested in helping go to the Network Render project page, check out the CVS code, and see if you can get a working build. When you've got one drop me a line.

Thanks in advance for anyone willing to be a "platform tester!"

-Bischofftep

Hi
I'll volunteer for a linux tester- I've got 2 desktops and a laptop running linux.
I'll have to wait a bit- my laptop is in the shop and one desktop has some hardware probs (bad ram I think) but as soon as I'm running I'll check it out.

Hi!
I could volunteer as a windows platform tester. I've got 13 PC's with windows ME and 2 with XP home edition running at the internet caffe.

Email me - kroopson@wp.pl

Hi!
I could volunteer as a windows platform tester. I've got 13 PC's with windows ME and 2 with XP home edition running at the internet caffe.

i have a mix of osx win xp and linux debian and red hat, running of different comps, ill help if i can

levonh@internode.on.net

I'd be happy to test things, although I don't have a heap of spare time. I've got a pretty heterogenous network here though, OS X, Windows XP and Linux (console only).

Since you're a Mac guy, coding in rendezvous support would be nice ( joke! )

Hello, all!

Thanks to those who responded! Here's what I need to get started:

- Using the CVS instructions on the network renderer pages here on blender.org, checkout the current CVS and build it for your system.

- Hang on to the .jar files from the NSPR install you do so that we can assemble functional versions for various platforms.

- Confirm to me that you can build & run the renderd and broker on your systems.

Once I have some test platforms running, I will commit some serious updates I've done to the code & make sure it all still runs on various platforms.

Thank you for offering to help! Once we get rolling, some discussion on functionality & user interface will follow!

-Bischofftep

Hello, I've already downloaded and built; however, renderd segfaults when I run it, and it has to do (I think) with the nspr. stuff. I had originaly had to hack the makefile up a bit, because the nspr paths in gentoo get split up in /usr, which isn't allowed for by the NSPR script variable in the makefile. I'm going to download nspr into my home directory and rebuild. Any specific version I should be using? this is what I get in GDB when I run it:

Code:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 16386 (LWP 1440)] PR_EnumerateHostEnt (enumIndex=0, hostEnt=0x4039e6bc, port=5001,     address=0x4039e9fc)     at ../../../../mozilla/nsprpub/pr/src/misc/prnetdb.c:1334 1334    ../../../../mozilla/nsprpub/pr/src/misc/prnetdb.c: No such file or directory.         in ../../../../mozilla/nsprpub/pr/src/misc/prnetdb.c

incidentally, the version of nspr gentoo includes is 4.3

when i type MAKE on cygwin on winxp i get:

Code:

$ make /cygdrive/e/networkD/renderd/guessconfig: not found gcc -c -g -Wall -I/home/levon/develop/lib//nspr/include renderd.c -o /home/levon /obj//renderd/renderd.o renderd.c:9:18: nspr.h: No such file or directory In file included from renderd.c:12: nspr-additions.h:19: error: syntax error before "err" nspr-additions.h:22: error: syntax error before "PRB_Send" nspr-additions.h:22: error: syntax error before '*' token nspr-additions.h:23: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `PRB_Send ' nspr-additions.h:23: warning: data definition has no type or storage class nspr-additions.h:24: error: syntax error before '*' token nspr-additions.h:25: error: syntax error before "PRB_Recv" nspr-additions.h:25: error: syntax error before '*' token nspr-additions.h:26: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `PRB_Recv ' nspr-additions.h:26: warning: data definition has no type or storage class nspr-additions.h:27: error: syntax error before "PRB_ReadLineTime" nspr-additions.h:27: error: syntax error before '*' token nspr-additions.h:28: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `PRB_Read LineTime' nspr-additions.h:28: warning: data definition has no type or storage class nspr-additions.h:29: error: syntax error before '*' token nspr-additions.h:30: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `PRExplod edTime' nspr-additions.h:30: error: syntax error before '*' token nspr-additions.h:32: error: syntax error before '*' token In file included from renderd.c:14: scan.h:10: error: syntax error before "PRUint16" scan.h:10: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union scan.h:13: error: syntax error before "renderd_scan_thread" scan.h:13: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `renderd_scan_threa d' scan.h:13: warning: data definition has no type or storage class scan.h:14: error: syntax error before "broker_scan_thread" scan.h:14: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `broker_scan_thread ' scan.h:14: warning: data definition has no type or storage class In file included from renderd.c:15: common.h:19: error: syntax error before "PRFileDesc" common.h:19: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union common.h:20: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `addr' common.h:20: warning: data definition has no type or storage class common.h:28: error: syntax error before '*' token common.h:28: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `sock2' common.h:28: warning: data definition has no type or storage class common.h:29: error: syntax error before "addr2" common.h:29: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `addr2' common.h:29: warning: data definition has no type or storage class common.h:35: error: `PR_NETDB_BUF_SIZE' undeclared here (not in a function) common.h:37: error: syntax error before "PRTime" common.h:37: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union common.h:40: error: syntax error before '}' token common.h:45: error: syntax error before '*' token common.h:45: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `InfoMutex' common.h:45: warning: data definition has no type or storage class common.h:51: error: syntax error before "PRTime" common.h:51: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union common.h:53: error: syntax error before '*' token common.h:53: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `nsprfd' common.h:53: warning: data definition has no type or storage class common.h:62: error: syntax error before '}' token common.h:67: error: syntax error before '*' token common.h:67: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `mainThreadMutex' common.h:67: warning: data definition has no type or storage class renderd.c:32: error: syntax error before '*' token renderd.c:32: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `InfoMutex' renderd.c:32: warning: data definition has no type or storage class renderd.c:34: error: syntax error before '*' token renderd.c:34: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `mainThreadMutex ' renderd.c:34: warning: data definition has no type or storage class renderd.c:37: error: syntax error before '*' token renderd.c:37: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `listenSock' renderd.c:37: warning: data definition has no type or storage class renderd.c: In function `main': renderd.c:44: error: `PRFileDesc' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:44: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once renderd.c:44: error: for each function it appears in.) renderd.c:44: error: `clientSock' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:45: error: `PRNetAddr' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:45: error: syntax error before "listenAddr" renderd.c:46: error: storage size of `port' isn't known renderd.c:47: error: syntax error before "renderd_thread" renderd.c:51: warning: implicit declaration of function `PR_GetEnv' renderd.c:51: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast renderd.c:57: warning: implicit declaration of function `printf' renderd.c:59: warning: implicit declaration of function `PR_NewLock' renderd.c:59: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast renderd.c:60: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast renderd.c:62: warning: implicit declaration of function `PR_Lock' renderd.c:64: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct InfoType' renderd.c:65: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct InfoType' renderd.c:67: warning: implicit declaration of function `PR_Unlock' renderd.c:70: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct mainThreadType' renderd.c:71: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct mainThreadType' renderd.c:72: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct mainThreadType' renderd.c:72: warning: implicit declaration of function `PR_Now' renderd.c:73: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct mainThreadType' renderd.c:75: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct mainThreadType' renderd.c:83: warning: implicit declaration of function `PR_NewTCPSocket' renderd.c:83: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast renderd.c:84: error: `listenAddr' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:85: error: `PR_AF_INET' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:86: warning: implicit declaration of function `PR_htons' renderd.c:87: warning: implicit declaration of function `PR_htonl' renderd.c:87: error: `PR_INADDR_ANY' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:88: warning: implicit declaration of function `PR_Bind' renderd.c:88: error: `PR_FAILURE' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:91: warning: implicit declaration of function `exit' renderd.c:93: warning: implicit declaration of function `PR_Listen' renderd.c:99: warning: implicit declaration of function `PR_CreateThread' renderd.c:99: error: `PR_USER_THREAD' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:101: error: `PR_PRIORITY_NORMAL' undeclared (first use in this functio n) renderd.c:101: error: `PR_GLOBAL_THREAD' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:102: error: `PR_UNJOINABLE_THREAD' undeclared (first use in this funct ion) renderd.c:108: warning: implicit declaration of function `PR_Accept' renderd.c:108: error: `clientAddr' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:109: error: `PR_INTERVAL_NO_TIMEOUT' undeclared (first use in this fun ction) renderd.c:112: warning: implicit declaration of function `malloc' renderd.c:112: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to an incomplete type renderd.c:112: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast renderd.c:116: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type renderd.c:117: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type renderd.c:118: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type renderd.c:120: error: `renderd_thread' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:124: warning: implicit declaration of function `PR_GetOSError' renderd.c:46: warning: unused variable `port' renderd.c: At top level: renderd.c:136: error: syntax error before "renderd_thread" renderd.c:136: warning: return type defaults to `int' renderd.c:136: error: `renderd_thread' used prior to declaration renderd.c: In function `renderd_thread': renderd.c:138: error: `PRFileDesc' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:138: error: `sockfd' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:138: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type renderd.c:139: error: `PRInt32' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:139: error: syntax error before "nread" renderd.c:141: error: syntax error before '*' token renderd.c:142: error: syntax error before '*' token renderd.c:143: error: syntax error before '*' token renderd.c:144: error: syntax error before '*' token renderd.c:148: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type renderd.c:151: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct InfoType' renderd.c:152: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct InfoType' renderd.c:153: warning: implicit declaration of function `PR_NetAddrToString' renderd.c:153: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type renderd.c:153: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct InfoType' renderd.c:154: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct InfoType' renderd.c:154: warning: implicit declaration of function `PR_ntohs' renderd.c:154: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type renderd.c:155: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct InfoType' renderd.c:155: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct InfoType' renderd.c:158: warning: implicit declaration of function `sprintf' renderd.c:162: error: `nread' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:162: error: `PR_INTERVAL_NO_TIMEOUT' undeclared (first use in this fun ction) renderd.c:185: warning: implicit declaration of function `atoi' renderd.c:192: warning: implicit declaration of function `PR_Delete' renderd.c:193: warning: implicit declaration of function `free' renderd.c:195: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct InfoType' renderd.c:196: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct InfoType' renderd.c: In function `singleshotrender': renderd.c:206: error: `FILE' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:206: error: `blenderfd' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:206: error: `framefd' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:206: warning: left-hand operand of comma expression has no effect renderd.c:208: error: `PRFileDesc' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:208: error: `sockfd' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:208: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type renderd.c:209: error: `PRIntervalTime' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:209: error: syntax error before "startTime" renderd.c:210: error: `PRUint32' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:212: warning: implicit declaration of function `atol' renderd.c:217: warning: implicit declaration of function `popen' renderd.c:219: warning: implicit declaration of function `fread' renderd.c:222: warning: implicit declaration of function `pclose' renderd.c:241: warning: implicit declaration of function `sscanf' renderd.c:255: warning: implicit declaration of function `fopen' renderd.c:259: warning: implicit declaration of function `fseek' renderd.c:259: error: `SEEK_END' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:260: warning: implicit declaration of function `ftell' renderd.c:261: error: `SEEK_SET' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:267: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast renderd.c:275: warning: implicit declaration of function `fclose' renderd.c:281: error: `PR_INTERVAL_NO_TIMEOUT' undeclared (first use in this fun ction) renderd.c:284: error: `timeDiff' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:284: warning: implicit declaration of function `PR_IntervalToMilliseco nds' renderd.c:284: warning: implicit declaration of function `PR_IntervalNow' renderd.c:284: error: `startTime' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:287: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type renderd.c:288: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type renderd.c:289: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type renderd.c:290: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type renderd.c:292: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct mainThreadType' renderd.c:293: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct mainThreadType' renderd.c:294: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct mainThreadType' renderd.c:295: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct mainThreadType' renderd.c: At top level: renderd.c:299: error: syntax error before '*' token renderd.c: In function `accept_blenderfile': renderd.c:301: error: `FILE' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:301: error: `blendfd' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:303: error: `linep' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:307: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast renderd.c:308: error: `sockfd' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:312: error: `PR_INTERVAL_NO_TIMEOUT' undeclared (first use in this fun ction) renderd.c:313: error: `blendFileName' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:316: warning: implicit declaration of function `fwrite' renderd.c: At top level: renderd.c:332: error: syntax error before '*' token renderd.c: In function `stopdaemon': renderd.c:335: error: `sockfd' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:341: error: `PR_INTERVAL_NO_TIMEOUT' undeclared (first use in this fun ction) renderd.c: At top level: renderd.c:347: error: syntax error before '*' token renderd.c: In function `showstatus': renderd.c:352: error: `PRExplodedTime' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:352: error: syntax error before "exploded" renderd.c:355: warning: implicit declaration of function `PR_ExplodeTime' renderd.c:355: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct mainThreadType' renderd.c:355: error: `PR_GMTParameters' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:355: error: `exploded' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:357: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct mainThreadType' renderd.c:357: error: `PR_USEC_PER_SEC' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:361: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct InfoType' renderd.c:363: error: `sockfd' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c:366: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct mainThreadType' renderd.c:366: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct mainThreadType' renderd.c:368: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct InfoType' renderd.c:371: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct InfoType' renderd.c:372: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct InfoType' renderd.c:374: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct InfoType' renderd.c:375: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct InfoType' renderd.c: At top level: renderd.c:381: error: syntax error before '*' token renderd.c: In function `showhelp': renderd.c:393: error: `sockfd' undeclared (first use in this function) renderd.c: At top level: renderd.c:31: error: storage size of `Info' isn't known renderd.c:33: error: storage size of `mainThread' isn't known make: *** [/home/levon/obj//renderd/renderd.o] Error 1

Hello, all:

Okay, please forgive me if I don't try to fix everybody's build problems.

Here are a few tips, though:

1) Wherever you uncompressed the .jar files from NSPR for your platform should be where the makefile info points for your system. If all else fails, (i.e. create environment variables FIRST if you can), edit the makefile for your platform (the parts that say if OS="Darwin" etc.) to explicitly include the directories you need.

2) In order to run, your system must be able to look up its own IP address by NAME. In other words, if you're on a system with a manually assigned IP address that can resolve your machine's name to an IP address things work fine. If, like me, you are on a DHCP setup, you'll either need a dedicated name server OR edit an entry in your hostconfig or hosts file that explicitly defines your host name to your current IP address. I know... this is a pain... I am working on that for the next rev!

3) Despite what the instructions SAY, I found I had to run broker FIRST, and THEN run renderd on the other machines or they couldn't find each other.

Hope these help! I'll be doing a commit later today since I have testers for all platforms already... feel free to keep along for the ride!

-Bischofftep