Rui Campos has started a new site called BlenderBuilds, to which I jumped on board the minute it came online given my propensity to do Windows builds. Initially it was intended to be just for straight-up CVS builds. However with the seemingly permanent demise of graphicall, I think BlenderBuilds might be needed to fill the vacuum that the site left behind.

Speaking of building, I gave CMake a try to build VC8 project files (using CMake files from Jacques Beaurain). The good news is that it worked; the bad news is that the project files didn’t make a build (I got about 5 errors). Of course I think it will work just fine if I delved into CMake a little more and figure out why the errors were occurring. I probably won’t though until it’s a permanent facet in the CVS, though I probably should since CMake from the Windows perspective hasn’t been mentioned on the committers list. One interesting thing was that it created extern, intern, and blender project files all in one solution. I suppose I’ve grown so accustomed to building each of them separately I never thought to combine them.