Linux builds?

[joan]

Hello all,

I'm new in this forum, and I would like to learn all about the workflow between these two beautiful applications. I want to express my congratulations to bdancer for your work.
I'm an old user of vray, when my 3d app was 3dmax, and now, with blender, I'm thinking in purchase a standalone licence to speed up my short deadlines of work. My OS is Linux Mint 11 64, which is very similar to Ubuntu, but I can't see new packages made for it in your builds optimised for vray. Yesterday I was doing the autocompilation but it failed, and started to test with and old build of a 2.57 blender version found at Graphicall, with the vray demo for maya.
Are there any plans to update new builds for linux in the future? Or can I use regular builds (for example the one made by fish) with your exporter into it? I read that your prepared builds are faster.

Thanks in advance, and greetings!

[bdancer]

Re: Linux builds?

Hi!

Yesterday I was doing the autocompilation but it failed

Could you post the error log? May be we could fix it. I guess there are some incomplete dependencies or some ffmpeg versions stuff again.

[joan]

Re: Linux builds?

Sure!
I think it is about ffmpeg, you are correct.

In file included from source/blender/blenkernel/intern/writeffmpeg.c:62:0:
intern/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_compat.h:31:4: error: #error "FFmpeg 0.7 or newer is needed, Upgrade your FFmpeg or disable it"
intern/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_compat.h:38:27: fatal error: libavutil/opt.h: No existe el fichero o el directorio
compilation terminated.
scons: *** [/tmp/builder/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/writeffmpeg.o] Error 1
Compiling ==> 'DerivedMesh.c'
scons: building terminated because of errors.
Adding exporter...
  in: /home/juan/build/install/vrayblender/2.61/scripts/startup
Build failed! Can't add exporter!

Thanks, bdancer.

[bdancer]

Re: Linux builds?

error: #error "FFmpeg 0.7 or newer is needed, Upgrade your FFmpeg or disable it"

This is the problem, but I've also found some additions in wiki about build on linux: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2 ... untu/Scons
I'll try this additions and tweak the build script.

[joan]

Re: Linux builds?

Ok, thank you!

[joan]

Re: Linux builds?

I did some tests with a graphicall version (a fish one) with an installed exporter using git client, and I noticed that "Export meshes" button is gone. Is this normal?
And, using this method (installing the exporter to a graphicall version), I don't have the fast build as I could if I have your custom builds, right?

Have you found a solution to autobuilding system?

Sorry for so many questions, but I'm very interested, and I want to be sure to buy anything. If I get satisfied, be sure that I will do donations for your work.

Keep going!

[bdancer]

Re: Linux builds?

Build script improved - you could try it.

I noticed that "Export meshes" button is gone.

Its not gone. Disable "Auto export meshes" under Exporter tab to show it.

[joan]

Re: Linux builds?

Thanks! It works like a charm!

In the future, when I want to update, I have to run

python vb25-patch/build.py

without erase nothing, right?

Thanks again!

[bdancer]

Re: Linux builds?

Yes, this will update sources and rebuild blender.
You could check this command output if you want to override some defaults:

python vb25-patch/build.py --help

[joan]

Re: Linux builds?

Thanks!