media-gfx/blender: Add "cycles-bin-kernels" useflag

This useflag enables precompiling the cycles render kernels at compile time. This makes it so that the user doesn't have to wait for the kernels to compile when they are used for the first time. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Parborg <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sam James <[email protected]>
johu · Apr 16, 2023 · 7f572b9 · 7f572b9
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diff --git a/media-gfx/blender/blender-9999.ebuild b/media-gfx/blender/blender-9999.ebuild
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ fi
 SLOT="${PV%.*}"
 LICENSE="|| ( GPL-3 BL )"
 IUSE="+bullet +dds +fluid +openexr +tbb \
- alembic collada +color-management cuda +cycles \
+ alembic collada +color-management cuda +cycles cycles-bin-kernels \
  debug doc +embree +ffmpeg +fftw +gmp jack jemalloc jpeg2k \
  man +nanovdb ndof nls openal +oidn +openimageio +openmp +opensubdiv \
  +openvdb optix +osl +pdf +potrace +pugixml pulseaudio sdl +sndfile \
@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ src_configure() {
  -DWITH_CODEC_SNDFILE=$(usex sndfile)
  -DWITH_CXX_GUARDEDALLOC=$(usex debug)
  -DWITH_CYCLES=$(usex cycles)
+ -DWITH_CYCLES_CUDA_BINARIES=$(usex cycles-bin-kernels)
  -DWITH_CYCLES_DEVICE_CUDA=$(usex cuda TRUE FALSE)
  -DWITH_CYCLES_DEVICE_OPTIX=$(usex optix)
  -DWITH_CYCLES_EMBREE=$(usex embree)

diff --git a/media-gfx/blender/metadata.xml b/media-gfx/blender/metadata.xml
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@
  Build cycles renderer (requires <pkg>media-libs/openimageio</pkg> and
  <pkg>dev-libs/boost</pkg>).
  </flag>
+ <flag name="cycles-bin-kernels">
+ Precompile the cycles render kernels for the CUDA/HIP/OneAPI backends, if they are enabled, at compile time.
+ This makes it so that the user doesn't have to wait for the kernels to compile when they are used for the first time in Blender.
+ If this option is not on, they will be built as needed at runtime.
+ </flag>
  <flag name="dds">
  Adds DDS textures support to Blender.
  </flag>