Hello, everyone…it seems that nobody can get this thing to compile, but I’ve been able to get farther than most I’ve heard of so far, so I’ll try to explain how to get at least to where I am.
Please note I’m doing this on Linux (RedHat 8), but the steps should hopefully help on other OS’s as well.
This first thing to do is to extract your blender-source-2.25b.tar.gz file to your home directory:
mv blender-source-2.25b.tar.gz ~
cd
tar xvfz blender-source-2.25b.tar.gz
The next thing to do, as the makefiles default to looking in a ~/develop directory rather than ~/blender, rather than mess with the makefiles as I did, rename the extracted directory to develop:
mv ~/blender ~/develop
Now, if you go into ~/develop/source and type make, you get some errors about guessconfig being denied, so find it and give it executable permissions, and give the config file it writes to write permissions:
cd ~/develop/source/tools/guess
chmod +x guessconfig
chmod +w config.guess
cd ~/develop/source
Now this takes us a bit further, but we still get errors when we type make. It says that it cannot find ‘nan_compile.mk’, when it goes into the ‘creator’ directory. This is a problem with almost all the source dirs, but you already have a copy of these files with you, just not in the right places, so we’re going to symlink them to all the other source dirs so they can be accessed (on other OS’s, you should be able to just copy them), note I’m using bash scripting to accomplish this:
cd ~/develop/source
for thesrcdir in `find -type d`; do
ln -sf $PWD/*.mk $thesrcdir/;
done;
Now, some successful compiling can happen…but not a lot.
There is still much to be done, I’m afraid.
If you try to ‘make’ now, something compiles, but then you get some errors about not being able to find two includes, MEM_guardedalloc.h and render.h.
MEM_guardedalloc.h is being looked for in ~/develop/lib/guardedalloc/include, but it is actually in ~/develop/intern/guardedalloc, so rather than modifying all the Makefiles as I did the first time, we’ll just appease it by linking (or moving) the header into the appopriate directory:
mkdir ~/develop/lib/guardedalloc
ln -s ~/develop/intern/guardedalloc ~/develop/intern/guardedalloc/include
The next file, render.h is in ~/develop/source/blender/render/extern/include, which is odd, because in further investigation, this is where it is looked for. It may just be me, but I’ve found that duplicating the line ‘CPPFLAGS += -I…/blender/render/extern/include’ in ~/develop/source/creator/Makefile fixes this wierd bug.
Now, if you go back to ~/develop/source and type make, hopefully quite a bit will compile, until you come to the encryption part, which complains of missing header file ‘blenkey.h’… All you have to do is copy the file ~/develop/intern/keymaker/key.h to ~/develop/intern/keymaker/blenkey.h, or link it:
ln -s ~/develop/intern/keymaker/key.h ~/develop/intern/keymaker/blenkey.h
Then, add the line ‘CPPFLAGS += -I…/…/…/…/intern/keymaker’ into the following Makefiles:
~/develop/source/blender/encrypt/intern/Makefile
~/develop/source/blender/decrypt/intern/Makefile
~/develop/source/blender/sign/intern/Makefile
~/develop/source/blender/writestreamglue/intern/Makefile
~/develop/source/blender/writestreamglue/stub/Makefile
~/develop/source/blender/readstreamglue/intern/Makefile
Thus far, typing make, you can get quite a ways into compilation, which is where I am, getting a bunch of errors with the makefiles trying to use the ‘c’ command as my compiler, which it isn’t…At the moment, at 1:40 AM in my time, I’m not going to try and get further, but I will tomorrow, and I’ll keep you posted…please tell me if I was at all helpfull, or if I left out any info. See you all later, fellow blenderheads!
-=erydo=-
I posted this last night on the blender.org forums, but when I got up, their site was down, so I figured I’d post it here too…I’m still working on getting past the aforementioned problem, if anybody figures it out give me a shout…feel free to ask any questions (as your results may vary, and I’ll try to be as helpful as possible)