• Blender 2.5 r30109 win32
• Blender 2.5 r30109 win64

As always, you can find the links to these download pages on the right side of my blog.

Update: I’ve now also updated the installer builds:

• Blender 2.5 r30109 win32 installer
• Blender 2.5 r30109 win64 installer

• Blender installer for Windows 32
• Blender installer for Windows 64

Please post results (both positive and negative) in the comments. Thanks!

Enjoy,

/Nathan

Thanks to the hard work of many developers Blender has now an amazing array of new features and improvements, like editable keymaps, new animation tools, improved and unified data API, and so on.

Grab your copy if you’re up for some alpha release testing (note: alpha means incomplete, features may change, and potentially unstableness. Yet, I think we have done quite a great job for an alpha release!)

I have had yet again the honour of creating the packages for Windows, both 32bit and 64bit. For now I have decided to do only .zip archives, as the installer is another project all by itself. The old one had so many issues, that I didn’t want to have it annoy people more than it should. It will be worked on, but for now it is not a main target. A new script for creating an installer has been submitted by Bobalicious, but it needs testing and improving before it can be called stable and usable with confidence.

Hopefully the packages work out for all users. If you experience any problems, then please, comment on my blog. I’ll try to address all arising issues and answer them as soon as possible.

/Nathan

Build configuration:


CCFLAGS = ['/Ob1', '/J', '/W3', '/Gd', '/wd4244', '/wd4305', '/wd4800', '/wd4065', '/wd4267', '/MT', '/openmp']
WITH_BF_FFMPEG = False
WITH_BF_OPENAL = True
WITH_BF_JACK = False
WITH_BF_SNDFILE = False
WITH_BF_PLAYER = False
WITH_BF_GAMEENGINE = True
WITH_BF_VERSE = False
WITH_BF_YAFRAY = False
WITH_BF_QUICKTIME = False
WITH_BF_COLLADA = True

BF_DEBUG=False
BF_BSC=False

BF_NUMJOBS=5

BF_MSVS = False

BF_BUILDDIR = ‘..\\build\\blender25-win64-vc’
BF_INSTALLDIR=’..\\install\\blender25-win64-vc’

As always, the package is a self-extracting 7z-archive. The archive has been scanned with AVG 9.0.707 for viruses.

Today, I managed to create working 64-bit builds of OpenCOLLADA. The libraries I have committed to our repository, along with the necessary changes in trunk source to get proper win64 builds done with Blender.

I have uploaded the build based on r24264 to Graphicall.org: my 64-bit build for Windows.

If people want to know how to create 64-bit builds for Windows, please leave a comment. If there’s enough interest, I’ll write up an article explaining my development and build environment, and how I create my builds (and official releases).

The Python version it is built against is Python 3.0, so take note of that. I hope all dependencies are done properly (lets just say it Works For Me . If you have any problems with the build, do write a comment to this blog. I’ll try to address them when I can.

Download the build from Graphicall.org here. And remember two things: 1) enjoy it, and 2) this is still under heavy development!

/Nathan

The build has been created against SVN revision 18932, and there are no debug symbols enabled. I still have uncommitted tweaks in my local tree, but if you’re interested in seeing what the scons configuration is that I use for building:

LCGDIR = ‘#../lib/win64′
WITH_BF_FFMPEG = False
WITH_BF_OPENAL = False
WITH_BF_PLAYER = False
WITH_BF_GAMEENGINE = True
WITH_BF_OPENJPEG= False
WITH_BF_FTGL = False
BF_PNG_LIB = ‘libpng’
WITH_BF_INTERNATIONAL = False
WITH_BF_QUICKTIME = False
WITH_BF_DOCS=False

BF_BUILDDIR = ‘..\\build\\blender25-win64-vc’
BF_INSTALLDIR=’..\\install\\blender25-win64-vc’
BF_DOCDIR=’..\\install\\blender25-win64-vc\\doc’