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Gentoo Linux ebuilds for Blender and dependency work.
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media-libs/osl: Considered Ready? #16

Closed dracwyrm closed 8 years ago

dracwyrm commented 8 years ago

To track a milestone.

dracwyrm commented 8 years ago

Cg overlay has osl in media-gfx. Is this a lib or a gfx? It's hard to choose a category. :P Also, should it be osl or OpenShadingLanguage, or openshadinglanguage? There are capital named ebuilds. I like osl since it's short, but is it right?

redchillipadi commented 8 years ago

We are using it for libOSL.. which I felt makes it a library. However it also contains a compiler for the shading language so you could argue either way. Although it is not a full blown graphics application in itself and I think most people would use it a a library accessed from another application such as blender.

A lot of the blender pages refer to it as osl, which I also prefer beause it is short, but it is referred to as openshadinglanguage in archlinux. I think it gets too confusing mixing upper and lower case in a case sensitive file system, so prefer to stick to lower case.

dracwyrm commented 8 years ago

Fair enough. That's why I ask questions. :) I'm a prolific question asker, in case you didn't notice.

dracwyrm commented 8 years ago

Is this ready then? I can't think of anything else to do with it for now.

redchillipadi commented 8 years ago

I think its ready.

It requires openexr, which needs the -abi_x86_32 or my fix from Bug 585846, but people using blender will unlikely really want it to run in 32 bit mode anyway.

I am currently looking at enhancing it to support boost 1.61 and llvm 3.6+, but we decided these should not be show stoppers.

dracwyrm commented 8 years ago

I think converting it to 1.61 and 3.6+ will take a long time. :( The good news, is that llvm 3.6+ code is somewhat in master trunk of git.

I think Blender will be run in 64 bit as well because of the memory address space. Rendering takes a crap ton of memory sometimes.

hmm. I need to look up the abi thing.

redchillipadi commented 8 years ago

If necessary we can just depend on bug 585846, this may push for it to be patched sooner. Making it more flexible for later versions will take some time and is a future enhancement only.

dracwyrm commented 8 years ago

I made blender depend on that bug on b.g.o. :)