Blender Git Commit Log

Remove MinGW support

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

Fix T51637: Mesh Tools - Noise Button Crashes.

Logic behind which mtext to use from material was broken here... Though
ultimately that whole tool could probably be deprecated or reworked!

Release wasn't building, limit debug scope

CustomData: assert on bad arguments to free

Assert the index is in-range for the layer type.

Add automated ctest for complex merge in Array modifier.

See also T50851.

Fix T50851: Array modifier generating invalid geometry.

We had handling of fully duplicated polygons already, but... absolutely
nothing to sanitize partially merged polygons! This were giving us
totally invalid geometry, with duplicated vertices in single poly,
invalid edges, etc.

Now we do check for invalid loops inside polys, and generate new edges
as needed to get only valid polys.

For some reason this was a nightmare to get running fully OK, playing
with old and new indices is really, really mind breaking.

Merge branch 'blender2.8' into greasepencil-object

Silence warning in draw manager

Rename: FILE_ACTIVELAY > FILE_ACTIVE_COLLECTION

Implement support for Append objects in Blender 2.8

Note for users
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The active_layer option used for the filebrowser operators is now called
active_collection.

If there is no collections in the scenelayer or if this option is not selected
we automatically create a new collection for the new objects.

This is the same behaviour of trying to add a new object when there is
no collection.

Note for developers
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For those cases I moved the object user count handling from readfile to
the scene collection system. It's working fine for those, but we still
need to re-visit this for Add objects, and Duplicate - In those cases
the usercount is 2 when it should be 1.

Reviewers: mont29, sergey

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2686

Rename BKE_layer_collection_active > BKE_layer_collection_get_active

Move util function to add new scene collection when active is not available from object to layer

Depsgraph iterator: Add assert for bases not yet evaluated

Gawain: move convert_prim_type_to_gl to private API

Fix removing texface layer

Merge branch 'master' into blender2.8

Fix freeing all custom-data layers

Would crash when the active index was out of range,
since there is no reason to use the active layer when freeing all,
free the first instead.

Fix T50908: Motion Tracker ignored grease pencil mask

This feature got lost with new auto-track API,

Added it back by extending frame accessor class. This isn't really
a frame thing, but we don't have other type of accessor here.

Surely, we can use old-style API here and pass mask via region
tracker options for this particular case, but then it becomes much
less obvious how real auto-tracker will access this mask with old
style API.

So seems we do need an accessor for such data, just matter of
finding better place than frame accessor.

Fix integer overflows in meshcache modifier.

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2688

Fix uninit shading group in object mode particles