Previously the cmake code would try to run the LIBDIR specific "findX.cmake" files for both vulkan and shaderc.
However these would pick up system headers and libraries when LIBDIR were not present. This would lead to compilation errors as the system library configurations were not taken into account or queried.
This changes it so that if LIBDIR is not present, the proper pkgconfig files will be used instead.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114639
Using /etc/ssl only makes sense when the versions of SSL on the system
is compatible with the version Blender uses.
Failure to load the configuration for e.g. causes SSL to fail entirely
(causing downloading over HTTPS to fail).
Recently [0] de facto standard directory `/etc/ssl` was used however we
can't guarantee files in this path are compatible with Blender's SSL.
Use a known invalid path to resolve#114452.
Ref !114569
[0]: 60a8ae7830acd09c3d8e9ab52630d48ecd4d281b
WESTON is used when WITH_UI_TESTS is enabled.
Note that the system WESTON installation can be used by setting
WESTON_BIN to a path on the users system.
Ref !114164.
In order to speedup compilation, we upgrade IGC to 1.0.14828.26 along
with ocloc and the associated dependencies.
We also bump min-driver version accordingly to 26918.
Ref !114341
Configure failed to find vorbis & vorbisenc on Linux with the errors:
ERROR: vorbis not found using pkg-config
ERROR: vorbisenc not found using pkg-config
the issue was caused by configures test program failing to link the test
code against the static library because functions in libm weren't found.
Resolve by adding `$libm_extralibs` to libvorbis.
Note that it's strange this issue didn't come up before,
since it occurs on a clean build it seems necessary.
The last good commit was 8474716abb0db3b06838a57f7217bc945638d8df.
After this commits from main were pushed to blender-v4.0-release. These are
being reverted.
Commits a4880576dc from to b26f176d1a that happend afterwards were meant for
4.0, and their contents is preserved.
Resolve an error with SSL using a hard coded path to certificates on
Linux causing HTTPS access to fail.
request.urlopen(..) couldn't access any HTTPS URL's.
The first public Windows driver version with a higher number is
101.4824, so we bump the min-required driver version on Windows to this
one to ensure compatibility.
Enable dynamic sound library loading so that "make release" produces
binaries that are as portable as buildbot builds.
Remove unnecessary linker flags that are already set by default, and
don't specifiy explicit lib directoy since it is also found by default.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113360
This was only used for accessing cursor themes which only worked
with gnome and wasn't used in official releases.
Use the default theme or the theme defined by XCURSOR_THEME.
Eventually wp_cursor_shape_manager_v1 can be supported which avoids
having to access the theme.
When WITH_GHOST_SDL or WITH_HEADLESS were used, the message didn't make
much sense, especially since the features warned about weren't
necessarily enabled or even supported by the platform.
Replace with a `set_and_warn_incompatible` macro which only reports
configuration changes based on incompatible features.
Printing that a library is found every time CMake runs isn't helpful.
Restrict these messages for the first execution so messages are limited
to information developers may need to know such as features being
disabled because of incompatible configurations.
This PR enables vulkan backend as experimental option.
It will only be available in alpha builds on Linux and Windows.
This option is highly experimental and enabled to get some insight
on supported platforms. Don't expect a fully working Blender
yet. Also don't expect it to have usable performance.
**What is known to not work?**
* OCIO textures are not supported on Intel and AMD GPUs. sRGB/Standard is supported
on those platforms.
* AMD Polaris based GPUs on Linux will generate a crash when drawing the 3d cursor as it
doesn't support the needed vertex format. Comment out `DRW_draw_cursor` in `DRW_draw_region_info`.
* The colors in the node editor and sequencer are of as sRGB viewports aren't detected correctly.
* The image / UV editor isn't working as many texture formats haven't been tested yet. Some
tweaks are also needed to do correct depth testing.
* 3D Viewport is known to be flickering. Sometimes workbench doesn't display anything.
* 3D Viewport wireframe will crash as it uses a framebuffer with gaps between color attachments,
which isn't supported yet. (#113141)
* Rotate the view widget is partially drawn due to incompatible depth clipping.
* GPU Selection isn't working. It is expected to be solved when Overlay-Next will become the
default engine. For now disable GPU depth picking in the preferences.
* Cycles/EEVEE are known to not work with Vulkan yet. Cycles requires Vulkan Pixel Buffer.
Cuda <-> Vulkan interop might require a different approach than OpenGL as Vulkan doesn't allow
importing memory from a Cuda context. EEVEE uses features that aren't available yet in the backend
* Workbench is working, except Workbench shadows.
* EEVEE-Next basics are working. Shadows, lights are known to be not working. Materials/Shading
works in simple scenes. Changes are expected in EEVEE-Next that will break Vulkan compatibility
in the near future.
* Systems with multiple GPUs is not expected to work.
* Wayland support is in development and requires some iterations. You can start Blender, but
the protocols are not aligned yet.
* OpenXR hasn't been modified and is expected to fail.
* The backend is very strict when mis-using the GPU module. In debug builds it may crash
on asserts.
* Older drivers/GPUs might not have all the features that we require. The workarounds
for the missing features still need to be implemented.
**A word about performance**
In the project planning we focus first on stability and platform support. The performance of Vulkan is
around 20% of what we want to achieve. The reason is that each command sent to the
GPU is done one at a time. The implementation even waits until we have feedback that the GPU
is idle again.
Geometry is currently stored in System RAM. The GPU will read and cache the data when
accessing geometry. This slows down when using objects with much geometry.
Some performance features like MDI (Multi-Draw-Indirect) hasn't been implemented and
falls back to Single Draw Indirect.
**Why enable it is an experimental option?**
* Ensures that new features are being tested with Vulkan
* Ensure that building with Vulkan is possible on supported platforms
* Get feedback from developers if Vulkan can run on their system or that
there are special cases that we are not aware of. Main development
environment has been Linux/X11 with occasionally testing using Windows.
* Validate Add-ons that use the `gpu` module.
* Possible to enable GLSL validation on the buildbot. (Needs more work).
* Does it compile on all machines or does it require more changes to cmake
config. We expect it to be able to compile without installing the Vulkan SDK.
The Vulkan SDK is a very powerful tool, but only when actually doing GPU
development. Otherwise it is an overhead which slows down other
activities.
**How can the backend be enabled?**
Currently the Vulkan backend can be enabled per Blender session by starting
using the command line argument `--gpu-backend vulkan`. In the future, when
the backend is more mature, we will add a user preference to switch between
OpenGL and Vulkan.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113057
Previously this was the double the CPU count because:
- Modern CPU's from AMD & Intel support SMT/hyper-threading which
present twice as many cores, doubling again has little to no benefit.
- Using 2x or 4x the number of physical cores number can use a lot of
memory on systems with many cores which are becoming more common.
