Hi, I am not sure if this is the best place to ask this question, but I have been trying to build blender as a python module on my Linux (Debian GNU/Linux 9.9) virtual machine, and I have been having a lot of trouble.
I have followed this instructions: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Building_Blender/Linux/Ubuntu https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/126959/how-to-build-blender-as-python-module and have tried with different versions of Blender (2.81 and 2.79) and with different variations in step 2 of installing the dependencies such as install_deps.sh --skip-python --skip-numpy. In step 3 (Compiling blender with CMake) I run the below command in cd ~/blender-git/blender instead of just make. These parameters(except for the ones in blue, is what the output told be to do after running install_deps.sh . sudo make bpy -j2 BUILD_CMAKE_ARGS="-U *SNDFILE* -U *PYTHON* -U *BOOST* -U *Boost* -U *OPENCOLORIO* -U *OPENEXR* -U *OPENIMAGEIO* -U *LLVM* -U *CYCLES* -U *OPENSUBDIV* -U *OPENVDB* -U *COLLADA* -U *FFMPEG* -U *ALEMBIC* -D WITH_CODEC_SNDFILE=ON -D PYTHON_VERSION=3.5 -D WITH_OPENCOLORIO=ON -D OPENCOLORIO_ROOT_DIR=/opt/lib/ocio -D WITH_OPENIMAGEIO=ON -D OPENIMAGEIO_ROOT_DIR=/opt/lib/oiio -D WITH_CYCLES_OSL=ON -D WITH_LLVM=ON -D LLVM_VERSION=3.4 -D *WITH_PYTHON_INSTALL=OFF -D WITH_PYTHON_MODULE=ON* -D OSL_ROOT_DIR=/opt/lib/osl -D LLVM_ROOT_DIR=/opt/lib/llvm -D LLVM_STATIC=ON -D WITH_OPENSUBDIV=ON -D OPENSUBDIV_ROOT_DIR=/opt/lib/osd -D WITH_OPENVDB=ON -D WITH_OPENVDB_BLOSC=ON -D WITH_ALEMBIC=ON -D ALEMBIC_ROOT_DIR=/opt/lib/alembic -D WITH_CODEC_FFMPEG=ON -D FFMPEG_LIBRARIES='avformat;avcodec;avutil;avdevice;swscale;swresample;lzma;rt;theora;theoradec;theoraenc;vorbis;vorbisenc;vorbisfile;ogg;x264'" After this step, I get a message that blender was successfully built, but then after trying to import bpy, after typing python3 or python in the Linux command like I get this error: >>> import bpyTraceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/username/blender-git/build_linux_bpy/bin/2.79/scripts/modules/bpy/__init__.py", line 38, in <module> from _bpy import types, props, app, data, contextModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_bpy' This is after adding this to my Pythonpath: export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/home/username/blender-git/build_linux_bpy/bin/2.79/scripts/modules:/home/username/blender-git/build_linux_bpy/bin/2.79/scripts/modules/bpy I take the error above to mean that it is trying to run it as an internal blender C module according to this post . https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37187025/blender-python-bpy-init-py-apparently-importing-from-a-non-existent-mod My question is what am I missing here to make this work? Is there a parameter that I am missing when running sudo make bpy? Do I need to do something different in the Pythonpath? Do I need to have a specific version of python in order for this to work? (I have 2.7 and 3.7 that came from the anaconda package). About two years ago I was able to successfully build blender 2.78 as a python module in my windows machine and use it directly from my python interpreter in eclipse. I remember the process being tedious as well, but this time I feel like I have exhausted all the answers from the internet. If anyone has successfully build blender as a python module on linux, and has ran into similar issues as mine and could point me to what I am doing wrong I will greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers