In the README file of the CVS repos. it says that blender has been successfully compiled using cygwin. Every time I try I get this error:

[Chris@PEACH ~/blender]$ setenv NANBLENDERHOME ~/blender
[Chris@PEACH ~/blender/intern]$ setenv MAKEFLAGS "-w -I$NANBLENDERHOME/source"
[Chris@PEACH ~/blender/intern]$ make
make: Entering directory `/home/Chris/blender/intern'
====> make all in intern/string
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/Chris/blender/intern/string'
====> make all in intern/string/intern
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/Chris/blender/intern/string/intern'
/home/Chris/blender/source/tools/cygwin/cl_wrapper.pl -c /MT -DNDEBUG /O2 -GX -W
all -DWIN32 -D_WIN32 -D__WIN32 -D_M_IX86 -I"/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft
Visual Studio/VC98/include" -I.. STR_String.cpp -o /home/Chris/blender/obj/wind
ows/intern/string/STR_String.o
make[2]: *** [/home/Chris/blender/obj/windows/intern/string/STR_String.o] Error
255
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Chris/blender/intern/string/intern'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Chris/blender/intern/string'
make: *** [all] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/home/Chris/blender/intern'
[Chris@PEACH ~/blender/intern]$

This looks to like a permissions error, but I can't find what an ERROR 255 is. If someone know what this error is, or somewhere I can find a set of instructions on compiling blender with cygwin that would be great.

Thanks,

Chris

If you re read the readme it says the old makefiles were used
in combanation with cygwin to build blender at NaN.

and specificly says I don't know if anyone has tried autoconf
under windows yet. It needs work.

Sorry I was not clear on this. After reading the README file I tried using the original NaN make files, and then I got the error. This error was NOT generated using the configure script.

The first line in blender/source/tools/cygwin/cl_wrapper.pl tries to call /usr/local/bin/perl . Change that line to /usr/bin/perl and this problem should be solved.

I tried to build Blender yesterday with a clean cygwin install and a fresh cvs checkout. It fails to build the famous intern/python/freeze/ library and it fails to compile gameengine/blconverter/BL_ActionActuator.cpp . I haven't had a chance to look at what's causing these problems.

Frank.

Thanks for the help frank. Now I am getting a new error. Did you have to change some other files as well? One problem I found was this in the make output:

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/Chris/blender/intern/string/intern'
/home/Chris/blender/source/tools/cygwin/cl_wrapper.pl -c /MT -DNDEBUG /O2 -GX -W
all -DWIN32 -D_WIN32 -D__WIN32 -D_M_IX86 -I"/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft
Visual Studio/VC98/include" -I.. STR_String.cpp -o /home/Chris/blender/obj/wind
ows/intern/string/STR_String.o
cl: not found
make[2]: *** [/home/Chris/blender/obj/windows/intern/string/STR_String.o] Error
127

The make file wants to look for the ../VC98/include but it should be ../VC98/Include. I changed it in the nan_compile.mk file but I still get the same error. I don't know if this makes a difference in cygwin, but I know this would be and error in a Unix based system. Is there a step by step set of instructions for compiling Blender using cygwin? If not it might be a good idea to make one. I will volunteer myself once I can get a successful build. Once again thanks for the help everyone.

Chris

Make sure the path to CL.EXE is in your PATH environment variable. When you install MSVC++ it offers you to set some system wide environment variables. It also creates a .bat file to set these variables for the current session if you don't make these variables global:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Bin\VCVARS32.BAT

My environment contains these references to MSVC++. I have no idea if they are all needed...:

> env | grep Visual

INCLUDE=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\atl\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\mfc\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\include

LIB=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\mfc\lib;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\lib

MSDEVDIR=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98

PATH=/home/frank/bin:/sbin/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/Tools/WinNT:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/MSDev98/Bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/Common/Tools:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/VC98/bin

Other environment variables:

> env | grep NAN

NANBLENDERHOME=/home/frank/develop/blender
NAN_PYTHON_VERSION=2.2

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More instructions in next post....

Frank.

Last edited by frank on Tue Dec 31, 2002 12:01 am; edited 1 time in total

Your cvs checkout should contain these modules:

blender/intern
blender/source
blender/lib/windows

--- compile the intern libraries:

> cd blender/intern
> make

On my system this breaks in the famous python/freeze directory. We'll handle that later. I had to manually do a "make install" in the moto directory. I don't know why, might have been a glitch.

--- compile ODE

in blender/source/ode/config/user-settings change the line PLATFORM=unix-gcc to PLATFORM=msvc . Then:

> cd blender/source/ode
> make

This fails because . is not in my PATH variable. So I have to run the next command by hand:

> ./configurator.exe include/ode/config.h "cl /nologo /DWIN32 /DMSVC /DSHAREDLIBEXPORT= /DSHAREDLIBIMPORT= /DdNODEBUG /Fe" "tools\rm"

> make
> cd lib
> ln -s ode.lib libode.a

--- make a symlink to the static jpeg library:

> cd blender/lib/windows/jpeg/lib
> ln -s libjpeg-static.a libjpeg.a

--- remove the need for a libfrozen library. I couldn't get in compiled under cygwin.

Comment out the libfrozen.a lines in blender/source/Makefile

# GRCLIB += $(OCGDIR)/blender/bpython/$(DEBUG_DIR)libfrozen.a
and
# GRPLIB += $(OCGDIR)/blender/bpython/$(DEBUG_DIR)libfrozen.a

And remove the line init_frozenmodules(); from blender/source/blender/bpython/intern/BPY_main.c

--- In blender/source/Makefile change the line

PYLIB = $(NAN_PYTHON)/lib/python20.lib
to
PYLIB = $(NAN_PYTHON)/lib/python22.lib

--- The netscape plug-in doesn't compile. Prevent the build system from entering this subdirectory by changing a line in blender/source/gameengine/GamePlayer/Makefile from

ifeq ($(OS),$(findstring $(OS), "freebsd irix windows"))
to
ifeq ($(OS),$(findstring $(OS), "freebsd irix"))

--- change a line in blender/source/gameengine/SoundSystem/openal/SND_OpenALDevice.cpp from:

ALenum alc_error = alcGetError(NULL); // openal_2.14+
to
ALenum alc_error = alcGetError(); // openal_2.14+

---

A make in blender/source should now build the Blender binaries for you. It finally breaks when it tries to link the Netscape plug-in but that's after it compiled and linked the Blender binary.

Frank.

Frank,

Thanks so much for the help. I have a few questions about your instructions.

1) In the step to compile ODE I changed the user-settings to PLATFORM=msvc

When I did this the make breaks stating that it can’t find stdio.h. Strange. Because it can’t find this the configurator.exe never gets created. I changed the PLATFORM=cygwin and it still doesn’t compile with make but it does create the configurator.exe, then I followed the steps outlined. Was the msvc a typo or an error on my end?

2) After completing all the remanding steps I ran make on blender/source dir. Here is the new error:

C:\cygwin\home\Chris\blender\lib\windows\moto\include\GEN_Map.h(137) : error C26
78: binary '==' : no operator defined which takes a left-hand operand of type 'c
lass GEN_HashedPtr' (or there is no acceptable conversion)
C:\cygwin\home\Chris\blender\lib\windows\moto\include\GEN_Map.h(135) : w
hile compiling class-template member function 'void **__thiscall GEN_Map<class G
EN_HashedPtr,void *>::operator [](class GEN_HashedPtr) '
C:\cygwin\home\Chris\blender\lib\windows\moto\include\GEN_Map.h(137) : fatal err
or C1903: unable to recover from previous error(s); stopping compilation
C:\cygwin\home\Chris\blender\lib\windows\moto\include\GEN_Map.h(135) : w
hile compiling class-template member function 'void **__thiscall GEN_Map<class G
EN_HashedPtr,void *>::operator [](class GEN_HashedPtr) '
make[2]: *** [/home/Chris/blender/obj/windows/gameengine/blconverter/BL_ActionAc
tuator.o] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Chris/blender/source/gameengine/Converter'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Chris/blender/source/gameengine'
make: *** [all] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/home/Chris/blender/source'

I don’t think this is the plug-in error. Is the game engine needed? For some reason it is having a problem with the moto include file GEN_Map.h. I did the make install in the blender/intern/moto but it didn’t help. Hope you have a happy New Year!

Chris

cjimison wrote:

When I did this the make breaks stating that it can’t find stdio.h.

Stdio.h can be found in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Include . Maybe you should set the INCLUDE environment variable (see one of my previous posts).

cjimison wrote:

[/home/Chris/blender/obj/windows/gameengine/blconverter/BL_ActionActuator.o] Error 2

Yes, this is the same error I got on my first try. You need to add the latest service pack for MSVC++. The out of the box version is quite buggy. You can find it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/updates/sp/vs6/sp5/default.asp Don't forget to recompile all the other sources as well. Otherwise you might run into some obscure errors.

cjimison wrote:

For some reason it is having a problem with the moto include file GEN_Map.h. I did the make install in the blender/intern/moto but it didn’t help.

It worked for me... GEN_Map.h should be located in blender/lib/windows/moto/include/GEN_Map.h

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> ls -lR blender/lib/windows/moto

Code:

moto: total 0 drwxr-xr-x+   2 frank    None            0 Dec 30 04:00 include drwxr-xr-x+   3 frank    None            0 Dec 30 04:00 lib moto/include: total 91 -rw-r--r--    1 frank    None         3749 Dec 30 23:39 GEN_List.h -rw-r--r--    1 frank    None         4121 Dec 30 23:39 GEN_Map.h -rw-r--r--    1 frank    None         2827 Dec 30 23:39 MT_CmMatrix4x4.h -rwxr-xr-x    1 frank    None         7690 Dec 30 23:39 MT_Matrix3x3.h -rwxr-xr-x    1 frank    None         8516 Dec 30 23:39 MT_Matrix4x4.h -rwxr-xr-x    1 frank    None         2189 Dec 30 23:39 MT_MinMax.h -rw-r--r--    1 frank    None         1358 Dec 30 23:39 MT_Optimize.h -rw-r--r--    1 frank    None         2597 Dec 30 23:39 MT_Plane3.h -rw-r--r--    1 frank    None         2839 Dec 30 23:39 MT_Point2.h -rw-r--r--    1 frank    None         2859 Dec 30 23:39 MT_Point3.h -rw-r--r--    1 frank    None         3987 Dec 30 23:39 MT_Quaternion.h -rwxr-xr-x    1 frank    None         2822 Dec 30 23:39 MT_Scalar.h -rwxr-xr-x    1 frank    None         1626 Dec 30 23:39 MT_Stream.h -rw-r--r--    1 frank    None         5301 Dec 30 23:39 MT_Transform.h -rwxr-xr-x    1 frank    None         3495 Dec 30 23:39 MT_Tuple2.h -rwxr-xr-x    1 frank    None         3678 Dec 30 23:39 MT_Tuple3.h -rwxr-xr-x    1 frank    None         4004 Dec 30 23:39 MT_Tuple4.h -rw-r--r--    1 frank    None         3813 Dec 30 23:39 MT_Vector2.h -rw-r--r--    1 frank    None         4013 Dec 30 23:39 MT_Vector3.h -rw-r--r--    1 frank    None         3417 Dec 30 23:39 MT_Vector4.h -rw-r--r--    1 frank    None         1430 Dec 30 23:39 MT_assert.h -rwxr-xr-x    1 frank    None         1402 Dec 30 23:39 MT_random.h -rw-r--r--    1 frank    None         4972 Dec 30 23:39 NM_Scalar.h moto/lib: total 118 drwxr-xr-x+   2 frank    None            0 Dec 30 04:00 debug -rw-r--r--    1 frank    None       119968 Dec 30 23:39 libmoto.a moto/lib/debug: total 361 -rw-r--r--    1 frank    None       368866 Dec 30 23:39 libmoto.a

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cjimison wrote:

Hope you have a happy New Year!

Mine started off just great. I hope you have a great 2003 too !

Frank.