Comments on: Blender 2.5 r25000

By: narayan

narayan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:18:44 +0000

Thanks for the tip! (I think there is one more person who posts similar huge files at Graphicall)

[off topic]. I want to compile FontForge on Windows with all required CygWin components. I have NetBeans 6.8 beta and cygwin. Could you provide some guidance as to how to proceed?

Thanks in advance.

(And if you prefer not to answer this, of course I do understand!)

By: jesterKing

jesterKing — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:19:46 +0000

Thanks! I’ve left a comment on the build page. Hopefully the builder will notice it and follow the instructions.

By: narayan

narayan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:20:00 +0000

I found one!

http://www.graphicall.org/builds/builds/showbuild.php?action=show&id=1191

By: narayan

narayan — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:48:14 +0000

Sure!

Unfortunately I did not kkeep track of these larger versions. The next time I see it, I will post a link.

Thanks!

By: jesterKing

jesterKing — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:32:30 +0000

55Mb sounds awefully large. But it can happen if the builder doesn’t package properly (not verified) or if MingW is used. MingW creates larger object files and executables (esp. with debug symbols turned on).

My archives will be as big as the official releases (mainly because I use the same settings as with official releases, and I build the official releases too .

Could you link such a build that is so wildly different in folduer structure and size? I’d like to investigate a bit.

Thanks.

By: narayan

narayan — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:13:09 +0000

Hi!

Two distinct sizes of Blender 2.5 are being posted at Graphicall: ~16 MB and ~55 MB. The folder structure is totally different, and even the files are different. Why does this size-difference exist, and what FUNCTIONAL difference should we expect to see between these sizes?

(I am not referring to the new features available in the latest SVN revision).

Thanks in advance!

By: jesterKing

jesterKing — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:42:05 +0000

SVN (short for Subversion) is the source code management software we use to track changes to the blender source code. Unofficial builds are often tagged with SVN to tell the user that it is work in progress.

My builds you should be able to just extract somewhere, and then run from there.

By: scan36

scan36 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:51:51 +0000

i am sorry for my ignorance but i guess we all learn from asking questions but whats a SVN and how do i put a build in the blender 2.5 alpha i downloaded the file on my temp folder but nothing happen. thanks

By: jesterKing

jesterKing — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:57:45 +0000

Eeek! You’re right. I must’ve been not using my brains when I created the packages, deleting wrong files and such. Thanks for the notification

I have recreated the packages and within 20 minutes of this writing they should be completely re-uploaded.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

By: 4museman

4museman — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:25:09 +0000

Hi JesterKing! I tried your 32bit build, but it won’t run. There are missing some libraries in the package (VCOMP90.dll library and some others). It is easy to copy them from the Alpha 0 package, but it can confuse someone. Still thanks! I wasn’t able to compile r25000 with Scons. Cheers!