Usually I’m reporting bugs on the bug tracker, but after relying on others to fix them for so long I decided to take matters into my own hands, as there are still over a dozen bugs that I reported still awaiting a fix.
So I am currently following the official guide to building Blender Building Blender/Windows - Blender Developer Wiki to try to build Blender for the first time.
I am using a brand new laptop for that so except for the 4 programs listed in the guide (Visual Studio with ‘Desktop Development with C++’ workload, SlikSvn, Git, CMake) the only other program I have installed is GitHub Desktop.
The first cloning step went smoothly without any problems but when coming to the step where make update
is executed I get this message
Warning: Python not found, there is likely an issue with the library folder
No explicit msvc version requested, autodetecting version.** Visual Studio 2022 Developer Command Prompt v17.3.4 ** Copyright (c) 2022 Microsoft Corporation
[vcvarsall.bat] Environment initialized for: ‘x64’ Compiler Detection successful, detected VS2022
The required external libraries in “C:\blender-git\blender…\lib\win64_vc15” are missing
Would you like to download them? (y/n)
I then inputted “y” and it started to download a lot of files (which I presume are libraries).
After some time time it stops at the file C:\blender-git\lib\win64_vc15
with the message:
Checked out revision 63037.
python not found, required for this operation
How should I react to this? As far as I know I don’t have anything Python related installed as the Building Blender/Windows - Blender Developer Wiki guide tells me to only install the ‘Desktop Development with C++’ workload and also doesn’t tell me to install anything else Python related.
By the way I know absolutely nothing about Python and what also surprises me is that apparently you can download Python Download Python | Python.org
Do I have to that? And if so what exactly would I be downloading, a Python compiler or IDE? I just can’t imagine how you would download a programming language, I mean like I can’t just download a C++ for example.
Thank you for helping me out!