Cannot build blender from source on ubuntu 16.04 (Error at CMake Compile)

TakahiroKomatsu · May 20, 2018, 12:01pm

I’m asking the same question at https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/108960/cannot-build-blender-from-source-on-ubuntu-16-04-error-at-cmake-compile

What I tried to do

I’m trying to build blender for the first time and ran into some errors during compiling. I use ubuntu 16.04.

Following the manual, I’ve ran:

mkdir /media/allosteric/Data/PF/BlenderBuild
cd /media/allosteric/Data//-git
git clone https://git.blender.org/blender.git
cd blender
git submodule update --init --recursive
git submodule foreach git checkout master
git submodule foreach git pull --rebase origin master
make update
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install git build-essential
cd ..
./blender/build_files/build_environment/install_deps.sh
cd blender
make

However, this raises errors. Logs are described below. (I ran make clean;make for the second and later runs.)
Logs

Every time the log started with:

Configuring Blender in "/media/allosteric/Data/PF/BlenderBuild/build_linux" ...
-- Could NOT find Spacenav (missing:  SPACENAV_LIBRARY SPACENAV_INCLUDE_DIR) 
-- Boost version: 1.58.0
-- Found the following Boost libraries:
--   filesystem
--   regex
--   thread
--   date_time
--   locale
--   system
--   chrono
--   atomic
-- Unsupported CFLAG: -Wrestrict
-- Unsupported CXXFLAG: -Wrestrict
-- Blender Skipping: (bf_alembic;bf_collada;bf_intern_ctr;bf_intern_opencl;bf_intern_utfconv;extern_sdlew)
-- Disabling Cycles tests because tests folder does not exist

after so, the compile halts raising errors with some varieties. The followings are some examples.

[ 42%] Building C object source/blender/blenkernel/CMakeFiles/bf_blenkernel.dir/intern/navmesh_conversion.c.o
[ 42%] Linking C static library ../../../lib/libbf_blenkernel.a
[ 42%] Built target bf_blenkernel
Makefile:160: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
GNUmakefile:128: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

or

[ 35%] Building C object source/blender/windowmanager/CMakeFiles/bf_windowmanager.dir/intern/wm_stereo.c.o
[ 35%] Linking C static library ../../../lib/libbf_windowmanager.a
[ 35%] Built target bf_windowmanager
Makefile:160: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2

or

[ 35%] Building C object source/blender/windowmanager/CMakeFiles/bf_windowmanager.dir/intern/wm_stereo.c.o
[ 35%] Linking C static library ../../../lib/libbf_windowmanager.a
[ 35%] Built target bf_windowmanager
Makefile:160: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
GNUmakefile:128: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

and others that I haven’t kept track of.

About my PC

The OS I currently use is ubuntu 16.04 LTS. However, this is a dual-boot with a Windows 10.

The /media/allosteric/Data/PF/BlenderBuild, which is the directory I’m currently tring to build blender, is a mount of a Data Driver originally for the Windows.

My CPU is an Intel® Core™ i5-4210H CPU @ 2.90GHz × 4, which is 64-bit, and GPU is GeForce GTX 950M.

Thanks.

YAFU · May 20, 2018, 1:25pm

Hi.
Have you been able to run this command without error messages in the terminal?
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Building_Blender/Linux/Ubuntu/CMake

./blender/build_files/build_environment/install_deps.sh

Has it been properly install all dependencies?

TakahiroKomatsu · May 20, 2018, 1:33pm

Thanks for the reply. I ran the ./blender/build_files/build_environment/install_deps.sh and received the following output. I am not quite sure but I think it means there are no errors. After running the install_deps.sh I re-ran make and failed.

log

WARNING! ****WARNING****
If you are experiencing issues building Blender, _*TRY A FRESH, CLEAN BUILD FIRST*_!
The same goes for install_deps itself, if you encounter issues, please first erase everything in /home/allosteric/src/blender-deps and /opt/lib
(provided obviously you did not add anything yourself in those dirs!), and run install_deps.sh again!
Often, changes in the libs built by this script, or in your distro package, cannot be handled simply, so...

You may also try to use the '--build-foo' options to bypass your distribution's packages
for some troublesome/buggy libraries...


Ran with:
    install_deps.sh 



Installing dependencies for DEB-based distribution

Source code of dependencies needed to be compiled will be downloaded and extracted into '/home/allosteric/src/blender-deps'.
Built libs of dependencies needed to be compiled will be installed into '/opt/lib'.
Please edit $SRC and/or $INST variables at the beginning of this script,
or use --source/--install options, if you want to use other paths!

Number of threads for building: 4 (automatically detected, use --threads=<nbr> to override it).
Full install: false (use --with-all option to enable it).
Building OpenCOLLADA: false (use --with-opencollada option to enable it).

Example:
Full install without OpenCOLLADA: --with-all --skip-opencollada

Use --help to show all available options!

Do you want to continue (Y/n)?
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Own OpenColorIO-1.0.9 is up to date, nothing to do!
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Ran with:
    install_deps.sh 


If you're using CMake add this to your configuration flags:
  -D WITH_CODEC_SNDFILE=ON
  -D PYTHON_VERSION=3.6
  -D WITH_OPENCOLORIO=ON
  -D OPENCOLORIO_ROOT_DIR=/opt/lib/ocio
  -D WITH_OPENIMAGEIO=ON
  -D OPENIMAGEIO_ROOT_DIR=/opt/lib/oiio
  -D WITH_CYCLES_OSL=ON
  -D WITH_LLVM=ON
  -D LLVM_VERSION=3.4
  -D OSL_ROOT_DIR=/opt/lib/osl
  -D LLVM_ROOT_DIR=/opt/lib/llvm
  -D LLVM_STATIC=ON
  -D WITH_OPENSUBDIV=ON
  -D OPENSUBDIV_ROOT_DIR=/opt/lib/osd
  -D WITH_OPENVDB=ON
  -D WITH_OPENVDB_BLOSC=ON
  -D WITH_ALEMBIC=ON
  -D ALEMBIC_ROOT_DIR=/opt/lib/alembic
  -D WITH_CODEC_FFMPEG=ON
  -D FFMPEG_LIBRARIES='avformat;avcodec;avutil;avdevice;swscale;swresample;lzma;rt;theoradec;theora;theoraenc;vorbis;vorbisenc;vorbisfile;ogg;x264;openjpeg;openjpeg_JPWL'

Or even simpler, just run (in your blender-source dir):
  make -j4 BUILD_CMAKE_ARGS="-U *SNDFILE* -U *PYTHON* -U *BOOST* -U *Boost* -U *OPENCOLORIO* -U *OPENEXR* -U *OPENIMAGEIO* -U *LLVM* -U *CYCLES* -U *OPENSUBDIV* -U *OPENVDB* -U *COLLADA* -U *FFMPEG* -U *ALEMBIC* -D WITH_CODEC_SNDFILE=ON -D PYTHON_VERSION=3.6 -D WITH_OPENCOLORIO=ON -D OPENCOLORIO_ROOT_DIR=/opt/lib/ocio -D WITH_OPENIMAGEIO=ON -D OPENIMAGEIO_ROOT_DIR=/opt/lib/oiio -D WITH_CYCLES_OSL=ON -D WITH_LLVM=ON -D LLVM_VERSION=3.4 -D OSL_ROOT_DIR=/opt/lib/osl -D LLVM_ROOT_DIR=/opt/lib/llvm -D LLVM_STATIC=ON -D WITH_OPENSUBDIV=ON -D OPENSUBDIV_ROOT_DIR=/opt/lib/osd -D WITH_OPENVDB=ON -D WITH_OPENVDB_BLOSC=ON -D WITH_ALEMBIC=ON -D ALEMBIC_ROOT_DIR=/opt/lib/alembic -D WITH_CODEC_FFMPEG=ON -D FFMPEG_LIBRARIES='avformat;avcodec;avutil;avdevice;swscale;swresample;lzma;rt;theoradec;theora;theoraenc;vorbis;vorbisenc;vorbisfile;ogg;x264;openjpeg;openjpeg_JPWL'"

This information has been written to /home/allosteric/d/PF/BlenderBuild/BUILD_NOTES.txt

TakahiroKomatsu · May 20, 2018, 1:41pm

[ 35%] Linking C static library ../../../lib/libbf_windowmanager.a
[ 35%] Built target bf_windowmanager
Makefile:160: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
GNUmakefile:128: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

When I try make I always have some may be used uninitialized blah kind of warning everywhere. However, this time, I found an error that seem to be crucial. Is this related or an independent problem?

[ 35%] Generating ../../../../release/datafiles/blender_icons16.png, ../../../../release/datafiles/blender_icons16.png.c
../../../../bin/datatoc_icon: error while loading shared libraries: libpng16.so.16: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
source/blender/editors/datafiles/CMakeFiles/bf_editor_datafiles.dir/build.make:590: recipe for target 'release/datafiles/blender_icons16.png' failed
make[3]: *** [release/datafiles/blender_icons16.png] Error 127
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:5248: recipe for target 'source/blender/editors/datafiles/CMakeFiles/bf_editor_datafiles.dir/all' failed
make[2]: *** [source/blender/editors/datafiles/CMakeFiles/bf_editor_datafiles.dir/all] Error 2
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

propersquid · May 20, 2018, 3:35pm

Check that you have the dev libpng package installed. It should be called something like libpng-dev. Once you do, try compiling again.

TakahiroKomatsu · May 20, 2018, 3:54pm

Thanks for your reply. I actually did sudo apt install libpng-dev with the log of libpng12-dev is already the newst version for several times before the compile. I’m trying it again right now but I’m not optimistic about the result.

EDIT:
Tried compile but failed.
It did not end with the very same error as previous but still had the libpng16.so.16 error

TakahiroKomatsu · May 20, 2018, 4:21pm

I’m looking in to /home/allosteric/d/PF/BlenderBuild/build_linux/source/blender/editors/datafiles/CMakeFiles/bf_editor_datafiles.dir/build.make
for a while and looked for some files.

all the files writen after release/datafiles/blender_icons16.png: were present (a whole cunk of lines writen before the 590th line)
/home/allosteric/d/PF/BlenderBuild/build_linux/release/datafiles/splash_2x.png.c was not found while it was required before the 590 th line)

Maybe they are just nothing

TakahiroKomatsu · May 20, 2018, 5:12pm

I ran sudo apt install libpng16-dev and sudo apt install libjpeg9-dev and blend was successfully compiled.