It is disabled by default, so should not affect existing configurations.
Main benefits of this goes as:
- Linux distros can use that to avoid libraries duplication and link
blender package against gflags package from the system.
- It it easier to test whether Blender works with updated version of
Gflags prior to re-bundling the library.
Currently the tests don't run on windows for the following reasons
1) render_graph_finalize has an linking issue due missing a bunch of libraries (not sure why this is not an issue for linux)
2) This one is more interesting, in test/python/cmakelists.txt ${TEST_BLENDER_EXE_BARE} and ${TEST_BLENDER_EXE} are flat out wrong, but for some reason this doesn't matter for most tests, cause ctest will actually go out and look for the executable and fix the path for you *BUT* only for the command, if you use them in any of the parameters it'll happily pass on the wrong path.
3) on linux you can just run a .py file, windows is not as awesome and needs to be told to run it with pyton.
4) had to use the NAME/COMMAND long form of add_test otherwise $<TARGET_FILE:blender> doesn't get expanded, why? beats me.
5) missing idiff.exe for msvc2015/x64 in the libs folder.
This patch addresses 1-4 , but given I have no working Linux build environment, I'm unsure if it'll break anything there
5 has been fixed in rBL61751
Reviewers: juicyfruit, brecht, sergey
Reviewed By: sergey
Subscribers: Blendify
Tags: #cycles, #automated_testing
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2367
Unfortunately this doesn't make all tests compilable due
to all sort of weird and wonderful bad levels includes
on Windows (G referenced from bf_blenlib) but at least
allows to selectively build tests for now.
The idea is to split them into two separate targets and have dedicated include
directories list for each of them in order to avoid some annoying include header
modifications in comparison with upstream.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, juicyfruit
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1706
Generally for build systems, libraries that do not depend on other
libraries, such as system libraries, OpenGL etc always go at the end.
We could even get rid of some duplicate dependency libraries here but
auto duplication by build systems and differences between OSs make this
difficult.
GTest still duplicates all libraries twice to solve some issues which is
weird (maybe libs are not sorted correctly for some reason? needs
investigation)
