Building Motor from source
Setting up a build environment
In order to build the engine from source, the following components are required:
A host running Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Solaris or Windows
Python (version 2.7 or 3.4+)
Flex and Bison
- A C++ compiler in the path or installed in a standard location
Clang version 2.9 or above
GCC version 3.4 or above
SunCC version 5.11 or above
Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 or above
Intel compiler, version 9 or above
Many plugins require third party libraries in order to be enabled.
The build system will usually automatically detect compilers, Flex and Bison from the environment and/or the registry. Some of these components can be downloaded from the GitHub release page for certain platforms/architectures.
Since Motor is very modular, it does not strictly require any development library to be installed, at the cost of seeing the plugin disabled. The core engine depends only on standard or operating system libraries (threading, filesystem, etc.).
Building from the command line
The Motor uses WAF as the build system. The build happens in two phases:
The build environments will be created. This step detects all available compilers (including cross compilers) and creates toolchain environments for each detected target. This step needs to be executed only once for the host;
~/motor > python waf configureSetting top to : ~/motor Setting out to : ~/motor/bld/.waf Checking for program 'flex' : /usr/bin/flex Checking for program 'bison' : /usr/bin/bison Looking for clang compilers : done Looking for msvc compilers : done Looking for gcc compilers : done Looking for suncc compilers : done Looking for intel compilers : done Looking for clang 10+ : /usr/lib/llvm-12/bin/clang++ Checking for Android tools : done + configuring for platform Linux `- linux_gnu_amd64-clang_amd64-11.0.1 : gnu {unit tests} `- linux_gnu_amd64-clang_amd64-12.0.0 : gnu {unit tests} `- linux_gnu_amd64-gcc_amd64-9.3.0 : gnu {unit tests} `- linux_gnu_amd64-gcc_amd64-10.2.1 : gnu {unit tests} `- linux_gnu_amd64-suncc_amd64-5.15 : sun {unit tests} `- linux_gnu_x86-clang_x86-11.0.1 : gnu {unit tests} `- linux_gnu_x86-clang_x86-12.0.0 : gnu {unit tests} `- linux_gnu_x86-gcc_x86-9.3.0 : gnu {unit tests} `- linux_gnu_x86-gcc_x86-10.2.1 : gnu {unit tests} `- linux_gnu_x86-suncc_x86-5.15 : sun {unit tests} + configuring for platform windows `- mingw_amd64-gcc_amd64-10 : mingw `- mingw_x86-gcc_x86-10 : mingw + configuring for platform android `- android_nougat_7.0-clang-9.0.8 : androideabi `- arm64 : androideabi `- armv7a : androideabi `- amd64 : androideabi `- x86 : androideabi Looking for CUDA : 11.3 'configure' finished successfully (19.802s)
The build can be started for one of the detected target environments.
~/motor > python waf build:linux_gnu_amd64-clang_amd64-12.0.0:debugsetup not run; setting up the toolchain 'build:linux_gnu_amd64-clang_amd64-12.0.0:debug' finished successfully (0.004s) Setting up environment : linux_gnu_amd64-clang_amd64-12.0.0 compute.CUDA : cuda 11.3 [3.5, 3.7, 5.0, 5.2, 5.3, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, 7.2, 7.5, 8.0] compute.OpenCL : from pkg-config compute.cpu : vanilla, .sse3, .sse4, .avx, .avx2 graphics.OpenGL : from pkg-config graphics.OpenGLES2 : from pkg-config graphics.freetype : from pkg-config gui.gtk3 : from pkg-config physics.bullet : from pkg-config scripting.lua : version -5.4 from pkg-config scripting.python : 2.7, 3.9 system.X11 : from pkg-config system.zlib : from pkg-config system.minizip : from pkg-config 'setup:linux_gnu_amd64-clang_amd64-12.0.0' finished successfully (1.008s) Generating LALR tables Generating LALR tables [ 1/618] {bison} motor.reflection.pp/valueparser.cc [ 2/618] {bison} plugin.scripting.package.pp/packageparser.cc [ 3/618] {master} motor.minitl/master-cxx-0.cc [ 4/618] {master} motor.core/master-c-0.c [ 5/618] {master} motor.core/master-cxx-2.cc [ 6/618] {master} motor.core/master-cxx-1.cc [ 7/618] {master} motor.core/master-cxx-0.cc [ 8/618] {master} motor.network/master-cxx-0.cc [ 9/618] {master} motor.filesystem/master-cxx-0.cc [ 10/618] {master} motor.introspect/master-cxx-0.cc [ 11/618] {master} motor.settings/master-cxx-0.cc [ 12/618] {master} motor.scheduler/master-cxx-0.cc [ 13/618] {master} motor.plugin/master-cxx-0.cc [ 14/618] {master} plugin.graphics.shadermodel1/master-cxx-1.cc [ 15/618] {master} plugin.graphics.shadermodel1/master-cxx-0.cc [ 16/618] {master} plugin.compute.cpu/master-cxx-0.cc [ 17/618] {kernel_ast} test.compute.unittests.pp/loop.ast [ 18/618] {kernel_ast} test.compute.unittests.pp/if.ast [ 19/618] {master} plugin.graphics.shadermodel2/master-cxx-0.cc [ 20/618] {master} plugin.scripting.pythonlib/master-cxx-1.cc [ 21/618] {master} plugin.scripting.pythonlib/master-cxx-0.cc [ 22/618] {master} plugin.graphics.shadermodel3/master-cxx-0.cc [ 23/618] {master} plugin.compute.opencl/master-cxx-0.cc [ 24/618] {master} plugin.compute.cuda/master-cxx-0.cc [ 25/618] {master} plugin.graphics.windowing/master-cxx-0.cc [ 26/618] {master} plugin.debug.runtime/master-cxx-0.cc [ 27/618] {master} plugin.graphics.shadermodel4/master-cxx-0.cc [ 28/618] {clc64} test.compute.unittests.statement.if.cl/if.64.ll [ 29/618] {clc32} test.compute.unittests.statement.if.cl/if.32.ll [ 30/618] {clc64} test.compute.unittests.statement.loop.cl/loop.64.ll [ 31/618] {clc32} test.compute.unittests.statement.loop.cl/loop.32.ll [ 32/618] {nvcc} test.compute.unittests.statement.if.cuda/if.fatbin [ 33/618] {nvcc} test.compute.unittests.statement.loop.cuda/loop.fatbin [ 34/618] {master} motor.launcher/master-cxx-0.cc [ 35/618] {master} plugin.debug.assert/master-cxx-0.cc ... [612/618] {cxxshlib} plugin.graphics.nullrender/libplugin.graphics.nullrender.so [613/618] {dbg_copy} plugin.graphics.shadermodel4/libplugin.graphics.shadermodel4.so.debug [614/618] {dbg_strip} plugin.graphics.shadermodel4/libplugin.graphics.shadermodel4.so [615/618] {install} plugin.graphics.shadermodel4/libplugin.graphics.shadermodel4.so.debug [616/618] {dbg_copy} plugin.graphics.nullrender/libplugin.graphics.nullrender.so.debug [617/618] {dbg_strip} plugin.graphics.nullrender/libplugin.graphics.nullrender.so [618/618] {install} plugin.graphics.nullrender/libplugin.graphics.nullrender.so.debug 'build:linux_gnu_amd64-clang_amd64-12.0.0:debug' finished successfully (4.422s)