This patch fixes a long-standing complaint from users:
the console window shortly flashing when they start
blender.
This is done by adding a new executable called
blender-launcher.exe which starts blender.exe while
hiding the console.
Any command line parameters given to blender-launcher
will be passed on to blender.exe so it'll be a drop
in replacement.
Starting blender.exe on its own will still function as
a proper console app so no changes required here for
users that use blender for batch processing.
Notable changes:
Registering blender (-R switch) will now register
blender-launcher as the preferred executable.
This patch updates the installer and updates the
shortcuts to start blender-launcher.exe rather
than blender.exe
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11094
Reviewed by: brecht, harley
Previously this was done in the deps builder due to the fact we needed
both 32 and 64 bit versions of this dll and CMAKE does not support that
in a single build folder. Now that 32 bit support has been dropped, this
can be safely moved into the codebase.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5633
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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
Also they did not work when using blender -R from
command line in 64-bit systems.
Issue was checking for wrong define which would
cause code to detect if the blender executable
functions under 32 bit emulation.
For 64bit executables this is false, leading
blender to believe we are operating under a 32bit
system, and registration would try to register
the 32bit thumbnailer.
This 32 bit dll is (correctly) missing for local
installs and from the new installer, thus no thumbnails.
now blenlib/BLI doesn't depend on any blenkern/BKE functions,
there are still some bad level includes but these are only to access G.background and the blender version define.
Not all file formats/calls are supported yet. It will be expended.
Please from now on use BLI_fopen, BLI_* for file manipulations.
For non-windows systems BLI_fopen just calls fopen.
For Windows, the utf-8 string is translated to utf-16 string in order to call UTF version of the function.
Reported by Thomas Engel
Fix [#26938] Blender Zoom not working after startup (Windows)
Reported by Ilija Boshkov
by applying patch [#26881] Fix for console disappearing in debug mode [Windows]
Submitted by Alexander Kuznetsov (AlexK)
The patch moves console toggling code into GHOST and improves on the toggling behaviour.
The patch changes handling of WM_SYSCOMMAND so that alt-key toggling isn't a problem anymore.
