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
cmake_qtcreator_project.py now takes a '--build-dir' argument.
Since introduction of argparse, accessing last argv from project_info is no longer working.
Now require a call to project_info.init before use.
This should fix an error with generated qtcreator projects.
also replace decoded bytes for unicode escape sequences in the VIEW3D_MT_edit_text_chars menu.
- Add *.cc files to qtcreator project as well as .cpp and .cxx
(would be needed for correct generating projects with libmv library).
- Added negate_v2 and negate_v2_v2 functions. They'll be needed for
camera tracking project.
- Fixed issue with generating proxies from 32bit images.
(generated jpg-s opened fine in blender, but were dark in osx viewer).
- Marked unused arg in indexer as UNUSED.
