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diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..9ce8733278b --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,164 @@ +Welcome to the fun world of open-source. + +This file is to help you get started using the source and will hopefully +answer most questions. + +Here are some links to external packages you may or maynot need: + +openssl: http://www.openssl.org +python: http://www.python.org +mxtexttools:http://www.egenix.com/files/python/mxTextTools.html (python lib) +libjpeg: http://www.ijg.org/ +libpng: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/ +zlib: http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ +openal: http://www.openal.org/home/ (for linux/windows) + sdl: http://www.libsdl.org/index.php (for openal) + smpeg: http://www.lokigames.com/development/smpeg.php3 (for openal) +fmod: http://www.fmod.org/ + +mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org/ +nspr: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/nspr/releases + (side note: on debian linux you will need mozilla-dev and libnspr-dev) + +If you do not have GL you will also need mesa: +http://www.mesa3d.org + +********************************************************************* +********************************************************************* +We are in the process of moving things over to automake/autoconf +The old makefiles are still in place and will work. If you want to +get a working blender skip down to the next section and use this readme as +a guide. + +If you want to play with the new autoconf environment you need to do the +following, inside this dir: +./bootstrap +mkdir ../newdir +cd ../newdir +../blender/configure + +Take a look at INSTALL for options you can give to configure. +About half of the intern directory is done so you won't get very far. +If you want to work on fixing it you need to edit Makefile.am's and +configure.ac +after editing those files you need to run bootstrap again. + +TODO to finish up the intern dir +Square away how ghost works. +(i.e. would be nice if under windows you could choose X11 or normal windows +libs, same with macos.. right now its a cludge and it doesn't do one explicitly +probably involves changing the way configure.ac picks stuff) + +Get intern/python figured out. + +Add the following to configure.ac + --with-openssl=dir + --with-mozilla=dir (get it so nspr is autodetected here) + --with-nspr=dir (incase in different dir) + --with-jpeg=dir + --with-png=dir + --with-zlib=dir + +figure out why the heck the libtool that gets created is wrong on my +system (mein@cs.umn.edu) :) + + +********************************************************************* +********************************************************************* + +--Notes on compiling mxTextTools---------------------------------------------- +To get the latest version to compile on my machine I had to +edit mxSetup.py and remove /usr/include from INCLPATH for it to build +properly. +(after doing this you need to edit blender/source/Makefile and +fix the pointer to it I'm still working on automating this) + +--------------Basic Makefile TIPS--------------------------------------- +Assuming you are using tcsh/csh do the following before compiling. +#Set this to wherever you have extracted the source. +setenv NANBLENDERHOME `pwd` +setenv MAKEFLAGS "-w -I$NANBLENDERHOME/source" + +Or for bash/sh do this: +NANBLENDERHOME=`pwd` +export NANBLENDERHOME +MAKEFLAGS="-w -I$NANBLENDERHOME/source" +export MAKEFLAGS + +Then edit source/nan_definitions.mk to fit you're environment. +(You'll want to change things like NAN_OPENSSL,NAN_JPEG, NAN_PNG etc.. +to point to where you have it installed) + +If you tried to just have a go at making stuff you might wind up with +an empty file /tmp/.nanguess +You need to remove the empty file and it will get created automatically +by $NANBLENDERHOME/source/tools/guess/guessconfig after you have +setup the NANBLENDERHOME variable. + +After that cd $NANBLENDERHOME/intern +make +make install + +cd $NANBLENDERHOME/source/ode +Look at the README_BLENDER and follow instructions + +Then cd $NANBLENDERHOME/source +make + +If you have any problems with the above post a message to the Forums on +www.blender.org +----------------------WINDOWS TIPS-------------------------------------- +If you have any problems with the above post a message to the Forums on +www.blender.org + + +----------------------Mac OSX TIPS-------------------------------------- +Now before you go to the source directory, make sure you have installed the +external libraries that Blender depends upon. Here is a description of the +things you need. + +FINK: +Use fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net/) to install the following libraries that +Blender depends on: +1. openssl (fink install openssl) +2. jpeg (fink install jpeg) +3. png (fink install png) + +PYTHON: +Mac OSX 10.2 (Jaguar) now comes with Python (2.2.1) pre-installed. This is fine +for producing the "frozen" Python code found in the intern directory. However, +the installation does not contain the python library to link against (at least +I could not find it). You could use fink to install Python but that Python +installation depends on X being installed and that is a large installation. + +If you prefer the easy way: download Python 2.2.2 from http://www.python.org. +Follow the instructions to in the documentation to install it on your box. If +you run OSX 10.2 it should install just fine. Basically a configure and a +"make" will do the job. The result is a Python library that should be copied to +the library tree together with the associated header files. + +Create the following directories: +$NANBLENDERHOME/lib/darwin-6.1-powerpc/python/include/python2.2 +$NANBLENDERHOME/lib/darwin-6.1-powerpc/python/lib/python2.2/config +Now copy the include files and the libpython2.2.a library to those locations. + +FMOD: +Download FMOD from http://www.fmod.org/ and unpack with StuffIt Expander. The +archive contains header files and a library. Copy those to these directories +(that you need to create first): +$NANBLENDERHOME/lib/darwin-6.1-powerpc/fmod/include +$NANBLENDERHOME/lib/darwin-6.1-powerpc/fmod/lib + +RANLIB: +Although the make files run ranlib on the libraries built, the gcc linker +complains about ranlib not being run. Until there is a solution, you will need +to run ranlib by hand once in a while when the make breaks. Luckily, the error +message lists the full path of the file to run ranlib on... Anybody out there +with a real solution? I guess the problem arises from copying the files from +one location to the other... + +Now wait, don't type make yet! You'll have to edit a config file of ODE first. +go to $NANBLENDERHOME/source/ode/config and edit the file "user-settings" so +that platform is equal to osx (PLATFORM=osx). + +Success! |