Add-ons working in the 2.8 daily build don't work when I do my own build?

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I’ve been building Blender 2.8 on my machine (MacBook Pro, High Sierra) as I get up to speed on internals so I can start to contribute. One annoying thing I’ve noticed is that when I build locally I do not get any of the add-ons that are present when I download the daily build (e.g. Node Wrangler, Copy Attributes). In my locally built version I get the familiar upgrade to 2.8x required. But I don’t see that in the daily build where the plugins work.

Is there a simple workaround?

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try running git submodule update in your blender source folder, then rebuild the install target.

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That didn’t fix it. Besides, shouldn’t ‘make update’ normally take care of that anyway?

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Are you sure you are on the blender2.8 branch and not on master? Switch to blender2.8 by git checkout blender2.8.

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[Charless-MBP:blender (blender2.8)]510$ git branch -v

  • blender2.8 11f9018ec66 GP: Cleanup typo
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make update seems to forcefully checkout the master addons, not the 2.8 branch , after talking to sergey he said git submodule update --remote ought to be the command that gets you the right addon tree.

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Thanks! That fixed it. I’ll write my own script that does this after make update.

So… should make update be fixed? Or is it more complicated than that?

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yeah update should be fixed, i’ll get that done today. [edit] i need to run some thing by sergey first, may not be today[/edit]

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Make udate should work now for both windows and linux and with no additional commands required.

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Thanks. Is it fixed for MacOS too? How do I verify the change is in place. After a few pulls, builds, and more pulls I can’t find ‘–remote’ anywhere in my makefiles or configs. Not sure where to look.

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yeah linux/mac use the same makefile

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I did a fresh 2.8 pull. It doesn’t seem to be fixed on my Mac. Once I do ‘git submodule update --remote’, it seems to work properly after that when I do make update.