Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Blender 2.5 Compile Errors

Hi, Blenderheads! I need you help. Just a few hours ago, before firing up Blender 2.5 in Linux, I updated it via SVN by compiling using Scons. Please pardon me for my ignorance on such technical stuff, I just really couldn't get my way out of this.

Yesterday, after running the same build commands (which I compressed into one batch file), everything went smoothly and Blender 2.5 was successfully built (as I would have expected after almost 6 months of doing so). Then this problem came up this morning.

I have Python 3.1 installed and so I wondered why I was prompted that I needed to update my Python.

I am still able to execute Blender 2.5 but then I'm presented with this headerless set of windows (except for the Properties window) plus some other annoying things like non-responsiveness of the 3d viewport shading (wire, shaded, etc.).

By the way, Build instructions are similar to one seen on this page > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Doc/Building_Blender/Linux/Ubuntu/Scons

Anyhow, I'm hoping you guys could help me on this. Thank you so much in advance!

Below you can see screenshots of the error I have been mentioning (click thumbnails to enlarge).


6 comments:

Sergof said...

The error message itself has an error in it unfortunately.
You need Python 3.2 to build blender now.
It might look harsh at first but I encourage you to read through this thread on the mailing list: http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2011-March/030757.html
You should be able to find some tips on how to handle the problem in some of the replies (among other frustrated users).
In short: you need to install (or compile) python 3.2 and setup your build system to find it (in your case editing user-config.py).

Dalai Felinto said...

Hi,
yesterday Blender officially did a change from Python 3.1 to Python 3.2.

There has been some discussions and post commit troubleshooting in the mailing-list (bf-committers). But simply put try to update your system to Python 3.2 and it should all work.

I hope that helps ;)

Floft said...

You might want to try upgrading to Python 3.2 (or at least installing it somewhere and building with it). I'm not sure what "PY_VERSION_HEX < 0x03020000" requires... but there's a 3 and a 2 in it. =) I use http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/blender-svn/PKGBUILD to build it. I just updated it again to verify it actually works here; it does.

Unknown said...

Thanks, Sergof. I should have paid attention to campbell's SVN commit.

I'll now apply all necessary changes needed.

Thanks!

Unknown said...

Dalai: Yes, I think that's what I should do. Thanks. I"ll update you whenever I can. Wish me luck!

Unknown said...

Floft: Thanks, pal. That's very very helpful.