Guides for compiling Blender

[dotty]

thank you for your quick answers! i tried it, but i have problems with resolving the dependencies. fortunately i have managed to compile blender on one of the ia64 machines. now i am using this binary on all ia64 machines and the performance is very nice.
sarah

[rivendell]

I'm trying to compile Blender SVN under Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit using Scons witht the guide at this link:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Blend ... _Compiling

I'm getting a compile/link errors due to undefined references. How do I fix this?

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Linking library ==> 'libbf_kernel.a'
Compiling ==> 'creator.c'
Linking library ==> 'libblender_creator.a'
Compiling ==> 'buildinfo.c'
Linking program ==> 'blender'
/home/me/compile/build/linux2/lib/libextern_redcode.a(codec.o): In function `redcode_decode_video_float':
codec.c:(.text+0xe9): undefined reference to `opj_image_destroy'
/home/me/compile/build/linux2/lib/libextern_redcode.a(codec.o): In function `redcode_decode_video_raw':
codec.c:(.text+0x1a4): undefined reference to `opj_set_default_decoder_parameters'
codec.c:(.text+0x1d4): undefined reference to `opj_create_decompress'
codec.c:(.text+0x1ec): undefined reference to `opj_set_event_mgr'
codec.c:(.text+0x1f7): undefined reference to `opj_setup_decoder'
codec.c:(.text+0x20d): undefined reference to `opj_cio_open'
codec.c:(.text+0x21b): undefined reference to `opj_decode'
codec.c:(.text+0x22f): undefined reference to `opj_cio_close'
codec.c:(.text+0x23c): undefined reference to `opj_destroy_decompress'
codec.c:(.text+0x2f1): undefined reference to `opj_image_destroy'
codec.c:(.text+0x316): undefined reference to `opj_destroy_decompress'
codec.c:(.text+0x31e): undefined reference to `opj_cio_close'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
scons: *** [/home/me/compile/build/linux2/bin/blender] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.
me@upc:~/compile/blender$

[frank_me]

I'm trying to compile Blender SVN under Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit using Scons witht the guide at this link:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Blend ... _Compiling

I'm getting a compile/link errors due to undefined references. How do I fix this?

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Linking library ==> 'libbf_kernel.a'
Compiling ==> 'creator.c'
Linking library ==> 'libblender_creator.a'
Compiling ==> 'buildinfo.c'
Linking program ==> 'blender'
/home/me/compile/build/linux2/lib/libextern_redcode.a(codec.o): In function `redcode_decode_video_float':
codec.c:(.text+0xe9): undefined reference to `opj_image_destroy'
/home/me/compile/build/linux2/lib/libextern_redcode.a(codec.o): In function `redcode_decode_video_raw':
codec.c:(.text+0x1a4): undefined reference to `opj_set_default_decoder_parameters'
codec.c:(.text+0x1d4): undefined reference to `opj_create_decompress'
codec.c:(.text+0x1ec): undefined reference to `opj_set_event_mgr'
codec.c:(.text+0x1f7): undefined reference to `opj_setup_decoder'
codec.c:(.text+0x20d): undefined reference to `opj_cio_open'
codec.c:(.text+0x21b): undefined reference to `opj_decode'
codec.c:(.text+0x22f): undefined reference to `opj_cio_close'
codec.c:(.text+0x23c): undefined reference to `opj_destroy_decompress'
codec.c:(.text+0x2f1): undefined reference to `opj_image_destroy'
codec.c:(.text+0x316): undefined reference to `opj_destroy_decompress'
codec.c:(.text+0x31e): undefined reference to `opj_cio_close'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
scons: *** [/home/me/compile/build/linux2/bin/blender] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.
me@upc:~/compile/blender$

I haven't moved up to 64bit yet, but this error indicates that your libopenjpeg
library didn't build (?). As a quick check, does ./build/linux2/extern/libopenjpeg/openjpeg.o exist ??

[rivendell]

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  As a quick check, does ./build/linux2/extern/libopenjpeg/openjpeg.o  exist ??[/quote]

Thanks frank_me.  This file does not exist on my machine.  What should I do now?

[frank_me]

First thing is to try building without openjpeg.

Add the flag WITH_BF_OPENJPEG=0 to other flags you're passing on the command line, i.e. scons <other flags...> WITH_BF_OPENJPEG=0

(As an aside, typing scons -h will give you a list of Blender build flags,
along with their default and actual values. On my system, default value is
false, but actual is true for openjpeg, and I don't remember setting that anywhere

Give that a shot, see if the build gets further, then decide if you need
the openjpeg lib

[farkasd]

Hello!

I would like to use Blender in a Desktop Grid for rendering, so first I have to compile it somehow to be able to run in any linux distribution without any library dependencies. How can I compile Blender statically to not use any dynamic libraries?

[Arathos]

hello all!
@rivendell: I could compile and run blender easily and - most important - succesfully with the following link: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Blend ... nder/Linux
In the first step all required dependancies are listed, maybe it helps when you install them.

Now to my question: Was anyone able to build Blender with Eclipse and Ubuntu?
When I build blender with scons as a build tool in eclipse I get this error message:
ImportError: No module named Variables:
File "/media/daten/Informatik/Java/blender2/SConstruct", line 42:
import tools.btools
File "/media/daten/Informatik/Java/blender2/tools/btools.py", line 6:
import SCons.Variables
Could anyone fix that problem? Or should I use makefiles instead of scons?
Thanks for every reply - and sorry for my English, it still has room for improvement !

Stefan[/i]

[jesterKing]

Set eclipse to use a custom tool for building. Then as custom building command do python ./scons/scons.py (make sure you use the scons that comes with the SVN sources).

/Nathan

[Arathos]

Thank you for the advice, it works! But the problem is, that this scons.py puts the binaries into a folder on the same level as the Eclipse-Project. Another place would be better but I don't know how to change the output folder.
But anyway, it works for me now with makefiles, finally I can start with coding - I hope I won't be frustrated too much

Stefan

[jesterKing]

You can set output dirs by specifying BF_INSTALLDIR and BF_BUILDDIR

/Nathan

[manis]

SOLVED see the update.

I have problem building with scons+vc9 on win xp but I can build with CMake so
its ok if you ignore me but I'm going insane!!!!
Here is the build log.

http://www.pasteall.org/5886

if its silly to add a pasteall link in here I have a short description:

scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
Compiling ==> 'SND_DummyDevice.cpp'
SND_DummyDevice.cpp
D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\INCLUDE\exception(83) : error C2144: syntax error : 'size_t' should be preceded by ';'

and the errors goes on and on !!!

The fun/crazy part is that if I run lines 98 through 111 (which is cl.exe with
its arguments) in cmd the SND_DummyDevice.obj file is created with no
problem!!! what is it?!

I heard there must be no space in path of applications that are compiling
under linux and you are trying to compile on windows so there is no space.
And without any luck once I copied the whole source tree to c:\blender to
see if any magic happens. I digested every single bit of information from
doc and google about scons but I can't figure out what the problem is.


BestRegards
Mani

Update: I was running scons in VC9 environment variables. (2008 CMD)
that was not right , for a proper installation read this :

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:D ... er/Windows

You can set python environment variables generally then if you want an
easy way to add SDK6 include files you can run SDK6 command prompt
and append lib and libpath with set command from what you see in VC9
environment variables.

It seems you need SDK6 include files and VC9 libs. if you don't set the lib
path you will get the famous:

IlmThread.lib(IlmThreadPool.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol

that was mentioned in forum several times and thought to be OPENEXR problem.

[Evgenij_M]

Using Kubuntu Jaunty amd64.

I tried to compile blender 2.5 (completely new to this) by following blender wiki:
Installed all dependencies for 2.49a, because I didn't find dependencies list for 2.5.

svn checkout https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blen ... blender2.5
cd ~/blender2.5/blender/
scons

and by the end of the process I get the following error:

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.
.
(*It seems that up to this point it goes without any errors*)
Compiling ==> 'buildinfo.c'
Linking program ==> 'blender'
Linking program ==> 'blenderplayer'
/home/evgenij/blender2.5/build/linux2/lib/libgp_ghost.a(GPG_ghost.o): In function `load_game_data(char*, char*, char*)':
GPG_ghost.cpp:(.text+0x87): undefined reference to `BKE_reports_init' 
.
.
(*A couple of thousands "undefined reference" messages.*)
.
.
BLO_readblenfile.c:(.text+0x196): undefined reference to `BKE_report'
collect2: выполнение ld завершилось с кодом возврата 1
scons: *** [/home/evgenij/blender2.5/build/linux2/bin/blenderplayer] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.
evgenij@evg-dsk:~/blender2.5/blender$

How do I fix this?

btw: I did manage to compile 2.49a by that method, without any problems.

Update:
I managed to build blender 2.5 by disabling blenderplayer. Add this to your user-config.py - WITH_BF_PLAYER = 'false' if you have the same problem.

[psy-fi]

Succesful 2.50 build with MinGW-Scons, gcc 4.4.0 (revision 23297). However had to set OpenEXR to false. If anyone can do the build with this setup straight without problem and including openEXRplease notify.

[dsavi]

I can't find the development files for Python 3.1.1 in Ubuntu Jaunty 32bit. Does somebody know where I can find them? Or how to build Blender 2.5 with Python 2.6?

[stiv]

I can't find the development files for Python 3.1.1 in Ubuntu Jaunty 32bit. Does somebody know where I can find them? Or how to build Blender 2.5 with Python 2.6?

Linux distros usually put the headers and such in a *-dev or *-devel package. Your other alternative is to compile and install Python from the source, a relatively simple process.

You will need Python 3.1 to build Blender 2.50. Note that running scons requires also that you have 2.x series Python since scons has not been ported yet.