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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ scripting, rendering, compositing, post-production and game creation.
CUDA support is included if cudatoolkit is installed.
It may be disabled by passing CUDA=no when building:
- CUDA=no sh ./Blender.SlackBuild
+ CUDA=no bash ./Blender.SlackBuild
CUDA support hasn't been thorougly tested, and may break the build. If
so, build with CUDA=no and report a bug to the maintainer of this
@@ -17,10 +17,28 @@ script.
Optional dependency: embree. If installed, Blender will be built with
support for it. It may be disabled by passing EMBREE=no when building:
- EMBREE=no sh ./Blender.SlackBuild
+ EMBREE=no bash ./Blender.SlackBuild
Note for 32-bit users: embree is 64-bit only, and can't be built on
32-bit Slackware.
+Optional dependency: alembic-framework. If already installed, it will
+be automatically detected and incorporated when Blender is built.
+
+To enable support for OptiX Ray Tracing Engine, the OptiX SDK must be
+available in the build environment. Use the OPTIX_ROOT_DIR environment
+variable to identify the SDK location e.g.
+ OPTIX_ROOT_DIR=/home/chris/NVIDIA-OptiX-SDK-7.6.0-linux64-x86_64 bash ./Blender.SlackBuild
+
+Optional dependency: OpenShadingLanguage (OSL). If already installed,
+it will be automatically detected and incorporated when Blender is built.
+Due to an unresolved issue with the current OSL version, generation of
+the blender manpage is suppressed when OSL is detected.
+
+
+This SlackBuild builds Blender from source code. For Slackware 15.0,
+due to its Python 3 version of 3.9.17, the Blender version to be built
+is restricted to version 3.3.10.
+
See also: graphics/blender (note, lowercase B), which repackages the
official Blender x86_64 release binary.