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The Issue
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For a long time now MinGW has been unsupported and unmaintained and at this point,
it looks like something that we should just leave behind and move on.
Why Remove
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One of the big motivations for MinGW back in the day is that it was free compared to MSVC which was licensed based.
However, now that this is no longer true we have basically stopped updating the need CMake files.
Along with the CMake files, there are several patches to the extern libs needed to make this work. For example, see:
https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/extern/carve/patches/mingw_w64.patch
If we wanted to keep MinGW then we would need to make more custom patches to the external libs and
this is not something our platform maintainers are willing to do.
For example, here is the patches needed to build python: https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-python3
Fixes T51301
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2648
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It basically rewrites most of filelist.c, with some more limited changes in other areas of filebrowser.
From user perspective, it:
* Removes some info in 'long' drawing mode (owner, permissions) - OS-specific data that do not really matter in Blender!
* Makes short/long display 'fixed' size (among four choices, like thumbnails mode).
* Allows to list several layers of dirtree at once, in a flat way (inside .blend files and/or real directories).
* Consequently, adds datablocks types filtering.
* Uses way less RAM when listing big directories, especially in thumbnail mode (we are talking of several hundred of MiB spared).
* Generates thumbnails way faster.
From code perspective, it:
* Is ready for asset engine needs (on data structure level in filebrowser's listing).
* Simplifies and makes 'generic' file listing much lighter.
* Separates file listing in three different aspects:
** 'generic' filelisting (in BLI), which becomes a shallow wrapper around stat struct.
** 'filebrowser drawing' filelisting, which only contains current visible subset of the whole list (sliding window), with extra drawing data (strings for size, date/time, preview, etc.).
** 'asset-ready' filelisting, which is used for operations common to 'basic' filehandling and future asset-related one.
* Uses uuid's to handle file selection/state in the browser, instead of using flags in filelisting items.
* Uses much lighter BLI_task handling for previews, instead of heavy 'job' system (using the new 'notifier' timer to handle UI refresh, in similar way to jobs).
* Moves .blend datablocks preview handling to IMB_thumbnail (necessary to avoid storing all datablock previews at once, and gives better consistency and performances too).
Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1316
Thanks to Campbell & Sergey for the reviews. :)
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Goodbye VC2008, it has been a pleasure (more or less) :D SCons / CMake cleaenup will follow.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D715
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* Fixed different not-in-sync #ifdef blocks for struct stat variants under Windows.
Comments have been left to indicate the portions of BLI_fileops.h and
BLI_fileops_types.h that need to stay in sync.
* Added BLI_wstat() to de-duplicate #ifdef blocks for stat() variants on Windows.
* Fix for opendir() and associate functions in MinGW not working properly with
non-ASCII, MBCS-compatible paths.
MinGW (FREE_WINDOWS) has opendir() and _wopendir(), and only the
latter accepts a path name of wchar_t type. Rather than messing up with
extra #ifdef's here and there, Blender's own implementations of opendir()
and related functions are used to properly support paths with non-ASCII,
MBCS-compatible characters.
Tested with MSVC 2013 Express, MinGW32 (gcc 4.6.2) and MinGW-w64 (gcc 4.7.1).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D605
Reviewed By: campbellbarton
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building on osx.
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preprocessor ambiguity for MinGW
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without the underscores these clogged up the namespace for autocompleation which was annoying.
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http://markmail.org/message/fp7ozcywxum3ar7n
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made less cryptic and changed to indicate if they work on files or directories.
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