make deps documentation #69297

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Dalai Felinto · 2019-08-29T15:28:49+02:00

Dalai Felinto commented

2019-08-29 15:28:49 +02:00

We need to document (online or in the repo/cmake/...) the dependencies of make deps.

For instance, at the moment in Ubuntu if you try to build without tclsh it fails due to sqlite3. But you only get the proper warning in the first time you run it.

This is regardless of whether we should integrate install_deps.sh and make deps in the future.

We need to document (online or in the repo/cmake/...) the dependencies of `make deps`. For instance, at the moment in Ubuntu if you try to build without tclsh it fails due to sqlite3. But you only get the proper warning in the first time you run it. This is regardless of whether we should integrate `install_deps.sh` and `make deps` in the future.

Dalai Felinto commented

2019-08-29 15:28:49 +02:00

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Brecht Van Lommel commented

2019-08-29 15:34:25 +02:00

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Brecht Van Lommel commented

2019-08-29 15:34:25 +02:00

Note we have:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Building_Blender/Dependencies
Which links here:
https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/build_files/build_environment/CMakeLists.txt

But there's no way to discover this when you just run "make deps".

Note we have: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Building_Blender/Dependencies Which links here: https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/build_files/build_environment/CMakeLists.txt But there's no way to discover this when you just run "make deps".

Ray molenkamp commented

2019-08-29 15:42:42 +02:00

Added subscriber: @LazyDodo

Ray molenkamp commented

2019-08-29 15:42:42 +02:00

There are a bunch of build time deps that 'make deps' has, like tclsh , nasm,yasm etc, if they are missing when the build starts, it's very hard for the average user to get 'unstuck' after it breaks and dies, and they install the missing deps since you have to remove the build folder for sqllite for instance for it to look for tclsh again.

Also since we do multi threaded builds, the actual error is generally long scrolled out of the screen when cmake decides to call it quits confusing even more users.

It's probably best if we implement a pre-flight check in cmake that checks for the required dependencies and errors out preemptively

There are a bunch of build time deps that 'make deps' has, like tclsh , nasm,yasm etc, if they are missing when the build starts, it's very hard for the average user to get 'unstuck' after it breaks and dies, and they install the missing deps since you have to remove the build folder for sqllite for instance for it to look for tclsh again. Also since we do multi threaded builds, the actual error is generally long scrolled out of the screen when cmake decides to call it quits confusing even more users. It's probably best if we implement a pre-flight check in cmake that checks for the required dependencies and errors out preemptively

Dalai Felinto commented

2019-08-29 16:29:26 +02:00

Indeed in the CMake files it says: "# Install compiler cmake autoconf automake libtool yasm nasm tcl"
So technically yes the issue here is not documentation per-se.

Maybe a simple solution would be to suggest "users" to look at the CMakeLists.txt file for instructions if CMake exists with error.

Indeed in the CMake files it says: "# Install compiler cmake autoconf automake libtool yasm nasm tcl" So technically yes the issue here is not documentation per-se. Maybe a simple solution would be to suggest "users" to look at the CMakeLists.txt file for instructions if CMake exists with error.

blender-admin commented

2019-08-29 17:46:04 +02:00

This issue was referenced by cc49644551

This issue was referenced by cc496445518d752d2a2bdad25d7c48115cacd659

Brecht Van Lommel commented

2019-08-30 11:22:27 +02:00

Changed status from 'Open' to: 'Resolved'

Brecht Van Lommel closed this issue

2019-08-30 11:22:27 +02:00

Brecht Van Lommel self-assigned this 2019-08-30 11:22:27 +02:00

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make deps documentation #69297