This switches clang to be the default compiler on Windows ARM64, allowing for an override to MSVC.
Turns out MSVC builds have been broken for months, but nobody checked, so I'm just switching them off for now and setting clang as the default.
These updated scripts allow for the msbuild generator to use an external (ie, non-MSVC) clang installation properly, otherwise they failed.
They also allow for users to specify their own desired clang compiler via an environment variable.
An update to the docs will come seperately.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134566
- WITH_WINDOWS_EXTERNAL_MANIFEST is now required even for ninja
builds, this previously was not the case. so just apply it
across all build flavours on windows.
- fmsc-version=1922 is no longer needed, was required back when
support for clang on windows landed, is fine without it now.
- /MP gives better build performance when building from the IDE
makes no difference for a ninja build which wasn't struggling in
that department anyhow.
The build commands for `ninja clean` on Windows were wrong - one had
the cmake executable duplicated and one was not using the correct
environment variable and also had missing quotes for paths that
contained spaces. Tested working on with `make ninja clean` and
`make ninja clean release`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128802
This gets Windows ARM64 to compile with clang-cl, which gives up to 40% performance improvements in certain scenes rendered with cycles, compared to MSVC.
This is all tested using LLVM 18.1.8 and a VS2022 `vcvarsall` window.
Subsequent PRs with various lib version updates, etc to go in at a later point.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124182
This enables ASAN support when used with VS 16.9
enable as usual in cmake with the WITH_COMPILER_ASAN
option, or when using make.bat just tag on `asan'
to the invocation, ie: `make lite 2019 asan`
MSVC: Asan support for 16.9
This enables ASAN support when used with VS 16.9
enable as usual in cmake with the WITH_COMPILER_ASAN
option, or when using make.bat just tag on `asan'
to the invocation, ie: `make lite 2019 asan`
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7794
Reviewed By: brecht, sergey
The windows build leaves a convenience helper script
in the build folder called, rebuild.cmd. This change
passes any parameters you give rebuild.cmd to ninja
so you can easily pass it additional parameters without
having to edit the batch file manually.
sccache [1] is one of the few ccache like solutions that will
work on windows.
sccache support can be enabled with the `WITH_WINDOWS_SCCACHE`
cmake option however it will only will work with ninja as the
build system, msbuild is not supported currently.
Advanced option, developes are expected to obtain and configure
sccache on their own.
```
Full build no cache 1428.90s (100.00%)
Full build cached 434.34s ( 30.40%)
```
[1] https://github.com/mozilla/sccache
Reviewed By: nicholas_rishel, Brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7466
Previously the MSVC environment was setup every time using vcvarsall.bat
when you ran you ran rebuild.cmd, Generally not an issue but after many
rebuilds on the same console, it grows the path environment variable
beyond what is supported and building breaks.
This patch adds a check to see if the environment is setup already
and skips the call to vcvarsall.bat
Also cleans up the double build in the msbuild's version of rebuild.cmd
install.vcxproj will build all that is needed, so no need to do a regular
build first.
1) Clang was given the wrong VS version to emulate when used in
combination with VS2019 causing build issues.
2) The erroneous supplied parameter `-std::c++11`caused CMake to
fail running its compiler detection scripts.
This will currently only work for the RelWithDebInfo configuration since asan
does not support the debug crt. for source line information in the reports,
you need a copy of llvm-symbolizer in the blender folder or set the
ASAN_SYMBOLIZER_PATH environment variable to point to it. Currently (as of
6.0.0) llvm-symbolizer does not ship with the binary clang/llvm distribution.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3446
This commit contains the minimum to make clang build/work with blender, asan and ninja build support is forthcoming
Things to note:
1) Builds and runs, and is able to pass all tests (except for the freestyle_stroke_material.blend test which was broken at that time for all platforms by the looks of it)
2) It's slightly faster than msvc when using cycles. (time in seconds, on an i7-3370)
victor_cpu
msvc:3099.51
clang:2796.43
pavillon_barcelona_cpu
msvc:1872.05
clang:1827.72
koro_cpu
msvc:1097.58
clang:1006.51
fishy_cat_cpu
msvc:815.37
clang:722.2
classroom_cpu
msvc:1705.39
clang:1575.43
bmw27_cpu
msvc:552.38
clang:561.53
barbershop_interior_cpu
msvc:2134.93
clang:1922.33
3) clang on windows uses a drop in replacement for the Microsoft cl.exe (takes some of the Microsoft parameters, but not all, and takes some of the clang parameters but not all) and uses ms headers + libraries + linker, so you still need visual studio installed and will use our existing vc14 svn libs.
4) X64 only currently, X86 builds but crashes on startup.
5) Tested with llvm/clang 6.0.0
6) Requires visual studio integration, available at https://github.com/LazyDodo/llvm-vs2017-integration
7) The Microsoft compiler spawns a few copies of cl in parallel to get faster build times, clang doesn't, so the build time is 3-4x slower than with msvc.
8) No openmp support yet. Have not looked at this much, the binary distribution of clang doesn't seem to include it on windows.
9) No ASAN support yet, some of the sanitizers can be made to work, but it was decided to leave support out of this commit.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3304
ninja is an alternative to msbuild designed for fast rebuilds. However there is no IDE support, builds only from the command line.
Comparison between msbuild and ninja for a full build, build time in seconds.
Full Clean Build
msbuild 867.5
Ninja 801.2
Difference -66.3 (-7.6%)
Minor Change
msbuild 43.0
Ninja 14.9
Difference -28.1 (-64.4%)
No Changes
msbuild 23.0
Ninja 6.1
Difference -16.9 (-73.5%)
