This change removes 32 bit support from the helper make.bat scripts
as we are dropping official 32 bit support, you can still build for
32 bit by configuring your build yourself using cmake and pointing
the LIBDIR cmake variable to your own 32 bit library folder.
VS2019 is binary compatible with the existing vc14 libraries and no
new libraries libs are required in svn.
VS2019 support requires cmake 3.14.
VS2019 is still in pre-release state, you are required to explicitly
select the pre-release version by using:
make full 2019pre
For llvm 6 the visual studio integration was 'not great' and we had
our own, which broke when llvm 7.0.1 came out. llvm now has properly
supported integration available on the VS market place hence we can
retire our custom support.
This will currently only work for the RelWithDebInfo configuration since asan
does not support the debug crt. for source line information in the reports,
you need a copy of llvm-symbolizer in the blender folder or set the
ASAN_SYMBOLIZER_PATH environment variable to point to it. Currently (as of
6.0.0) llvm-symbolizer does not ship with the binary clang/llvm distribution.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3446
This commit contains the minimum to make clang build/work with blender, asan and ninja build support is forthcoming
Things to note:
1) Builds and runs, and is able to pass all tests (except for the freestyle_stroke_material.blend test which was broken at that time for all platforms by the looks of it)
2) It's slightly faster than msvc when using cycles. (time in seconds, on an i7-3370)
victor_cpu
msvc:3099.51
clang:2796.43
pavillon_barcelona_cpu
msvc:1872.05
clang:1827.72
koro_cpu
msvc:1097.58
clang:1006.51
fishy_cat_cpu
msvc:815.37
clang:722.2
classroom_cpu
msvc:1705.39
clang:1575.43
bmw27_cpu
msvc:552.38
clang:561.53
barbershop_interior_cpu
msvc:2134.93
clang:1922.33
3) clang on windows uses a drop in replacement for the Microsoft cl.exe (takes some of the Microsoft parameters, but not all, and takes some of the clang parameters but not all) and uses ms headers + libraries + linker, so you still need visual studio installed and will use our existing vc14 svn libs.
4) X64 only currently, X86 builds but crashes on startup.
5) Tested with llvm/clang 6.0.0
6) Requires visual studio integration, available at https://github.com/LazyDodo/llvm-vs2017-integration
7) The Microsoft compiler spawns a few copies of cl in parallel to get faster build times, clang doesn't, so the build time is 3-4x slower than with msvc.
8) No openmp support yet. Have not looked at this much, the binary distribution of clang doesn't seem to include it on windows.
9) No ASAN support yet, some of the sanitizers can be made to work, but it was decided to leave support out of this commit.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3304
ninja is an alternative to msbuild designed for fast rebuilds. However there is no IDE support, builds only from the command line.
Comparison between msbuild and ninja for a full build, build time in seconds.
Full Clean Build
msbuild 867.5
Ninja 801.2
Difference -66.3 (-7.6%)
Minor Change
msbuild 43.0
Ninja 14.9
Difference -28.1 (-64.4%)
No Changes
msbuild 23.0
Ninja 6.1
Difference -16.9 (-73.5%)
make.bat was starting to become hard to maintain, this refactors it into separate batch files for each stage of the process.
-Improved detection of msvc2013/2015
-Improved failure handling.
-Added check for working msbuild and C++ compiler
-Added verbose switch to ease trouble shooting.
-Added Check if svn/cmake/git are in the path before using them
-Display the build configuration before asking to download the libraries
-Offer an option to recover an interrupted checkout of the libraries.
-Automatically check out sub-modules in-case they are missing.
