It has been deprecated since at least macOS 10.9 and fully removed in 10.12.
I am unsure if we should remove it only in 2.8. But you cannot build blender with it supported when using a modern xcode version anyway so I would tend towards just removing it also for 2.79 if that ever happens.
Reviewers: mont29, dfelinto, juicyfruit, brecht
Reviewed By: mont29, brecht
Subscribers: Blendify, brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T52807
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2333
-No more hardcoded python35/36 tokens in the scripts
-disabled python module for boost, was not used
-Updated patches for python to support building with msvc2013
We stop using the .zip file and just have all files now in
lib/darwin/python/lib, along with numpy, numpy headers and requests.
This makes it consistent with Linux and simplifies code.
For old libraries the .zip stays, code for that gets removed when we
fully switch to new libraries.
FFMPEG & VPX don't handle target with --build parameter, so we need to make sure use of plain configure command
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D2791
Note these are intended for platform maintainers, we do not intend to
support users making their own builds with these. For that precompiled
libraries from lib/ should be used.
Implemented by Martijn Berger, Ray Molenkamp and Brecht Van Lommel.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2753
Based on D2578, now you can install JACK audio server and use it in
Blender build without having to specify the `--with-all` option (that
one still enables also JACK of course).
Reviewers: mont29
Maniphest Tasks: T51033
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2578
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
QtKit was removed in macOS Sierra, this patch disables WITH_CODEC_QUICKTIME
in Sierra and greater versions of macOS.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2645
