Open doug-walker opened 11 months ago
Hi Doug, can you assign this one to me please?
Hi @eaniemey - Penne Lee had also expressed interest in working on this issue as well - if you're planning on working on it for Dev Days, could you please join the #devdays2023 channel on the OCIO slack instance, and also check in with Penne (I believe you both work at Intel) so that duplicate work is not done? :)
Thanks for your interest in contributing to OCIO!
Hi I reached out to Doug already on Slack.
From: Carol Payne @.> Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 12:09 PM To: AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenColorIO @.> Cc: Niemeyer, Erik A @.>, Mention @.> Subject: Re: [AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenColorIO] Improve Windows build scripts and documentation (Issue #1867)
Hi @eaniemeyhttps://github.com/eaniemey - Penne Lee had also expressed interest in working on this issue as well - if you're planning on working on it for Dev Days, could you please join the #devdays2023 channel on the OCIO slack instance, and also check in with Penne (I believe you both work at Intel) so that duplicate work is not done? :)
Thanks for your interest in contributing to OCIO!
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We're happy to have you work on it, I just wanted you to be aware of the possibility of duplicate effort. Penne had stated interest in this issue a few days ago.
Thanks @carolalynn22 and @doug-walker for making the connection! Great minds... :)
As there are a few of us doing this set up on Windows, we decided we will roll up our feedback to Erik to drive the changes. Thank you!
Perfect! Sounds like a great approach. Thank you both!
Thank you both, we love the collaboration!
Summary: Below are the detailed observations the Intel team (Eli Hernandez, Penne Lee, Erik Niemeyer) made while attempting to get the OCIO build environment setup and building correctly. We would like to use these observations to spawn a discussion and subsequent sub-issues to resolve the problems we ran into.
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Many thanks to the Intel team for the helpful notes about problems with the build system! The next step would be for someone to take those suggestions and make a PR with some improvements.
As mentioned in the Installation guide, there are two .bat scripts available to help install prerequisites and build OCIO on Windows. These are helpful, however, there are some rough edges with these scripts. For example, some of the instructions are not clear about installing vcpkg. Additionally, instructions should be added for using the Community rather than the Enterprise edition of Visual Studio.
This issue is for someone to take a fresh look at installation on Windows, from the point of view of an inexperienced developer, and make some improvements. Some of the improvements could be to the documentation page and some could be in the .bat scripts themselves.