Building blender on windows

Download the blenderVR patch. And apply it to blender sources. Previous version. User Tools Admin Log In. Translations of this page: en. This procedure has been done on Windows Seven. It should work on other versions of windows. I'm working on it, take notes here. CMake 2. Python 3. More details about tools for Blender development are here.

The most common options can be enabled by using the developer target, which can be combined with other targets. For example:. For faster builds, the Ninja build system can be used. If ninja is installed and available in the path, it can be added to the make command when setting up the build folder.

If there already exists a build folder with a different build system, the folder must be removed first. Example command to set up ninja build:. However some may want to test most recent builds of openCollada. Here is what you need to do in that case:. I assume that you have already installed Visual Studio comunity edition , git and cmake as described further up in this document.

Then you can proceed as follows:. In that case please help us to fix this issue. This part i can not create without your help.

So please be so kind and report your failures you can add a comment below. And if you found a fix, then please add it as well. I will then edit this document. I make this separation because the first category of errors is typically due to wrong setup tools, while the second category is mostly about changes in the infrastructure and related requirements for building blender. Or simply changes in the sources them self.

Someone told you that there is something new in blender and you are eager to get the new feature directly. But now it fails. This can happen during development and there is nothing wrong with it. It just happens! Ask in the blender IRC if this problem is known. Try to find the responsible developer.

Create a bug report…. Building Blender Intended Audience This guide is intended for users who want to build Blender from its sources on Windows. I assume you do not yet have installed any programing software on your computer. In fact i used a fresh computer for testing the Setup. Disclaimer: This is just one way to install the necessary software. It is not any official advice and there is no guarantee that this works. Please feel free to add comments to this page with feedback and your requests for improvement.

Detailed Installation instructions If all went well, then you can launch the Visual Studio to see if it really works for you. But be patient, the first launch takes a while. I needed to wait for about 1 minute until the next popup appeared. I decided to not sign in for now. Download git for windows. Save the downloaded file at a safe place for later reuse should you need to install again.

Then run the downloaded installer and just accept all defaults click the Next button repeatedly and finally click the Finish Button. Of course you are free to setup your source folders however you like, you only need to ensure that you have about 10 GByte of free space on that location. Fetch Blender sources by using git Open the Git Bash window again or open a new Git Bash window and from within the window navigate to your development folder by typing:.

Now you are on your development folder and you can fetch the sources. Note: The following is a very brief run through using git to fetch the blender sources. You may want to read the much more detailed article about using git for blender in the Blender wiki.

The first line above actually fetches the main blender repository. This downloads about MByte of sources so it takes a couple of minutes depending on your internet connection. The follow up lines fetch subrepositories like the Addon folder, and the internationalisation folder Once you have fetched the repository, then you can update it to the newest version at any time:. Now your File Browser should display all files in the Blender directories. After you click on one of the blue Download buttons, then you are forwarded to a totally confusing page.

I tried to spot where to click next for a while. Until i realized that the download started automatically. Once it is downloaded, just run the installer. You can use the default settings: start the installer Accept the license. On the Custom Setup page you need to enable Command line tools. I used the option: Entire Feature will be installed on local had drive.

TortoiseSVN tools in your Program folder. For the curious: Why does blender use subversion and git in parallel? That is: git always creates a clone of the entire repository on your local computer. Open a fresh Git Bash and navigate to your development folder the one into which you have loaded the Blender sources and there you will create a library folder as follows:. I used the Windows Desktop version for my installation. Please note, the toolkit size is almost 1 GByte. If you also find one or more patches then download and install those patches as well.

It is possible that your computer does not have an Nvidia graphic card. In that case you get a warning. However you can safely Continue to install the toolkit and later build blender with it.