Support for building blender with clang on windows on x64 was added
years ago but given there are no active users support has crumbled a
bit.
This PR brings the build system back into working order but upstream
patches in openVDB are still required for a successful build see PR
#120317 for details.
Blender when build with clang the classroom scenes rendered on the cpu
with cycles is seeing a 5% reduction in render time on both an
AMD 7700x and an Intel 14900k.
* Only works on machines with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen3 or above.
Older generation devices are not and will not be supported due to
some driver issues
* Requires VS2022 for building.
* Uses new MSVC preprocessor for sse2neon compatibility.
* SIMD is not enabled, waiting on conversion of blenlib to C++.
Ref #119126
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117036
This adds preliminary VS 2022 support, since
there currently is no CMake version that
supports the VS2022 IDE only ninja support
was tested.
IDE support should work without any additional
changes as soon as an updated CMake becomes
available.
As VS2022 appears to keep binary compatibility
with earlier MSVC versions, the current SVN
libraries will work for this version.
This enables ASAN support when used with VS 16.9
enable as usual in cmake with the WITH_COMPILER_ASAN
option, or when using make.bat just tag on `asan'
to the invocation, ie: `make lite 2019 asan`
MSVC: Asan support for 16.9
This enables ASAN support when used with VS 16.9
enable as usual in cmake with the WITH_COMPILER_ASAN
option, or when using make.bat just tag on `asan'
to the invocation, ie: `make lite 2019 asan`
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7794
Reviewed By: brecht, sergey
sccache [1] is one of the few ccache like solutions that will
work on windows.
sccache support can be enabled with the `WITH_WINDOWS_SCCACHE`
cmake option however it will only will work with ninja as the
build system, msbuild is not supported currently.
Advanced option, developes are expected to obtain and configure
sccache on their own.
```
Full build no cache 1428.90s (100.00%)
Full build cached 434.34s ( 30.40%)
```
[1] https://github.com/mozilla/sccache
Reviewed By: nicholas_rishel, Brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7466
Previously the MSVC environment was setup every time using vcvarsall.bat
when you ran you ran rebuild.cmd, Generally not an issue but after many
rebuilds on the same console, it grows the path environment variable
beyond what is supported and building breaks.
This patch adds a check to see if the environment is setup already
and skips the call to vcvarsall.bat
Also cleans up the double build in the msbuild's version of rebuild.cmd
install.vcxproj will build all that is needed, so no need to do a regular
build first.
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.
