Yep. life is not free. Thanks for keeping us updated.
Well, ouch.
My bad, everyone. Too much to do and I keep getting sidetracked. Hereās a recap:
I worked out a script to link an extension against blenderās own object files, the drawbacks are youād still have to compile blender to get these binaries and then the extension winds up containing a whole lot of duplicate code. Not ideal.
There is a way around this issue, as I mentioned in my previous post, but after asking the UPBGE mantainers themselves I only received the answer (and I quote): āsorry I donāt understand anything, too technicalā.
Which is justā¦ how can I put this? Utterly demoralizing.
At first I said to myself well, Iāll wait a few days to see if anyone else on the team can offer some help in making the necessary changes to the build files; days turned to weeks, then months, still nothing.
Well, either none of the maintainers understand blenderās build system or none of those that do saw my message. So Iām forced to figure this one out on my own, and thereās a problem with that as well: the only PC I have is very old and recompiling is ridiculously slowā¦ and everytime I try a change to the build system, I have to recompile every last object. Sadface.
But the main problem is that recompiling renders this damn toaster unusable for the duration of the build, which means I canāt even work on something else done while I wait, but I still have a million other things to do!
Iām just \done\ here. Iāll give you folks three options, and thatās how this is going to go:
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Someone that understands the build system assists me with this issue ā namely, I need symbols from
libge_*.afiles to be added to blender and blenderplayerās dynamic tables so that shared objects can access them. -
A brave volunteer performs the compilations for me on another computer so I donāt lose six work hours per attempt, a spare machine running most any Linux distro should do.
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I save up enough money to upgrade the ole toaster and solve this without help ā but full disclosure, Iām broke and barely have an income to speak of. Itās not impossible, but certainly an uphill battle, and likely to take a lot longer.
Obviously, number one is preferred, which is why I went to the UPBGE devs: knowing the right changes to make means I only have to recompile once. Well, that didnāt happen.
Now: am I being a petty mustard, publicly flogging the engine maintainers for (apparently) missing a small, tiny piece of critical knowledge in order to vent out my own economic frustration? Absolutely. You guys are champs, how do you not know this stuff? ;>
Either way, until I get some assistance, or my situation changes, I wonāt be making any further progress. Iām sorry, folks.
Cheers.
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