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Interesting and *long* thread this is ! FWIW here's my list of things that accumulated to the internal NaN documentation structure. Always in a hurry as we were to become profitable there was not much time left for proper documentation, but even we ( ;-) ) had a need for it and we wanted to have to ...

As Ton already said, the Makefiles use cygwin's gmake on Windows (to call the visual command line compiler, through Frank's script in tools/). Tinderbox used this for our automated builds.

I think that a port to cygwin/gcc will be relatively easy.
Prepare for lots of #ifdef changes in the code

Be careful not to edit the file when copying, this includes 'doze bad habit of replacing \r with \r\n

I tried wincvs.org ('couldn't find server') try again. it's at: http://www.wincvs.org/ here are the download mirrors: Ftp mirrors Europe: ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/cvsgui/ (Swiss SunSITE, located in Zurich/Switzerland) ftp://link.medinn.med.uni-muenchen.de/ftp/pub/mirrors/cvsgui/ (Ludwig...

I'd like to set up a Tinderbox system again, the one we used internally at NaN proved very useful. For those of you that do not know what a Tinderbox system is; it is an automated multi-platform build system reporting tool. See http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=SeaMonkey for an exampl...

rakee wrote:I just got the sources from CVS , i find that there are some files missing / or do we need to download some third party libs?

Yes, you need: jpeg nspr openal openssl png python

also, at my current understanding, it looks like all the makefiles in the source tree are designed to run with the microsoft compiler and their NMAKE program. this _might_ mean a re-write of some kind so that the makefiles work with GNU make and GCC. i'll see how far i get... No. We use gmake under...

Then I assume you're a windows user. Get WinCVS, enter the pserver settings from the unix instructions and off you go

jeotero wrote:that could be a good idea a stable branch and the nextgen branch

Are you sure you want cvs-branches ? Or do you mean just different development trees ? In both cases the merging is a major pain If we could organize the code more into modules then the this merging becomes do-able.

JWalton wrote:I guess we'll have to consider IRIX a port now. The Makefiles don't seem to make sense out of modern IRIX installation.

On the contrary, the Makefiles work on *all* blender platforms, including exotics like windows, beos, macosx.