Is it possible to disable Embree in the Blender build?

Hi there, random question, is it possible to disable Embree in the Blender build? Can CYCLES still function without it?

I’m unsure what you are asking? It’s off by default, you’d have to go out of your way to turn it on in cmake with the WITH_EMBREE option and rebuild blender to get it on.

Oh! I didn’t know that. I was looking at the solution file that CMake generates and didn’t see any indication either way.

Are there any other libraries “on” by default?

in your CMakeCache.txt look for any of the variables starting with WITH_

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Thank you for your response, this makes a lot of sense now :slight_smile: