blender/build_files/buildbot
Aaron Carlisle 9f044cb422 Remove MinGW support
The Issue
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For a long time now MinGW has been unsupported and unmaintained and at this point,
it looks like something that we should just leave behind and move on.


Why Remove
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One of the big motivations for MinGW back in the day is that it was free compared to MSVC which was licensed based.
However, now that this is no longer true we have basically stopped updating the need CMake files.
Along with the CMake files, there are several patches to the extern libs needed to make this work.  For example, see:
https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/extern/carve/patches/mingw_w64.patch

If we wanted to keep MinGW then we would need to make more custom patches to the external libs and
this is not something our platform maintainers are willing to do.

For example, here is the patches needed to build python: https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-python3

Fixes T51301

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2648
2017-05-27 15:34:55 -04:00
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config Buildbot: List freetype for OIIO libraries 2017-04-07 17:01:07 +02:00
master_unpack.py Remove MinGW support 2017-05-27 15:34:55 -04:00
master.cfg Buildbot: Update master config 2017-04-04 12:52:54 +02:00
slave_compile.py Buildbot: Fix typos 2017-04-14 10:03:51 +02:00
slave_pack.py Buildbot: SPecial branch trickery for linux slaves 2017-04-03 15:04:16 +02:00
slave_rsync.py Revert "Buildbot: more fixes, this time to upload logic." 2014-07-23 22:28:02 +02:00
slave_test.py Buildbot: Explicitly disable tests on all platforms 2016-04-01 10:33:44 +02:00