Le blog de Jean David TECHER, un Réunionnais à Saint-Priest/Lyon

1. Unboxing - My own feedbacks

I was a bit disappointed by GamePrint services but time to say That bad feeling belongs the past and I should go ahead...!

I received my 3D figure on Friday 09-Feb-2018. I had to say that their artists did a great job. Order was submitted on 11-Jan-2018. Almost 3 weeks ~ 4 weeks to wait for it.

Video below deals with unboxing for my Sheyna 3D.

Figure is pretty cool. I really like it. Great jobs artists from GamePrint!

2. Some animations

BTW this ticket is the occasion to share some animations I did last year with this model

• Daz Studio: to generate animation frame per frame
• Ffmeg on Linux: to merge all frames

3. Wallpapers

All wallpapers can be downloaded at http://rboxeur.deviantart.com/

As of writing this ticket, Wednesday 07-Feb-2018, this is my own feeling with this company.

• Back in December 2017, I was pretty impressed by feedbacks from customers I can read on the Daz3D forum or any other forum.
• I paid for a 3D model on 11-Jan-2018.
• I was notified by mail that the 3D model was sent to my shipping address only now.

But first let me share some real disappointments

• 1st disappointment I requested them - through the messages services on their Web Site - That I would like to get some photos of the 3D model before it will be sent to my address. In all their replies always the same point "No worries". As of writing this message, I received message shown on image below. So go fuck yourself!!!
• 2nd disappointment You filled a form when you want to order your 3D model. OK no problem. So what's the problem. The obvious question you have in mind is "When shall I receive it?". It's pretty easy to get the answer. Just have a look on their FAQ. At least 3 weeks! What! What! Why??? So I sent a message expressing my own rage about this. They explained to me that there is some kind of production cycle, estimated to 3 weeks. And why this information is not writtent on the first page of their Web Site, mother fuckers!!! My birthday was Monday 05-Feb-2018. Conclusion: I should receive it only a few days later. Thanks for wasting my birthday. Enjoy the money I gave you GamePrint!!!

To be honest whatever their artirsts jobs were on my 3D model -- I didn't receive it for the moment -- I am disappointed by qualities of their services. A real bullshit!!!

I spent more than 8 hours to design my 3D model through Daz Studio. Ordering a 3D money is about XX hundreds dollars. Hundred of dollars is not like buying a cake or any stupid thing in the market. This is a lot of money for me. As customer we deserve that you stay respectfull with us. That's my right to be disappointed by this company!!! Peolple may think that silly things I am speaking about.

Sorry but a printed 3D model is supposed to be a artist work! Right or No? It is supposed to be right

My guess is that even a real artist job today is supposed to be kept away for any mercantile purposes. Here the real artists are the painters. I don't have any doubt about their jobs but a real disappointment with the quality of the company they work for.

Project on Githhub

Pros

• https://github.com/lachs0r/mingw-w64-cmake
• Pretty cool project to build your automatic toolchain for MinGW-w64 either for 32 bits or 64 Bits

Cons

• MinGW-w64 points to the GitHub repository (head/master bran), which is pretty a wrong choice because it can break stability for any program. Better to get it pointing to 5.0.3 (stable version)
• Not portable because it depends on some packages being installed on your system like GMP version.... But it can be easily fixed by adding/building theses dependancies GMP/MPC/MPFR in the toolchain -- not covered here !!!--

Some notes

I will recommend this project because it uses cmake so it can be maintained easily. Its code is pretty understandable. Surely better than pure bash script. MXE is pretty well-known to install a cross toolchain quickly. But if you were wondering if there is any other project that can do it, I will say that this one is prety cool. You can

• reuse its code
• add/build your own packages
• Cmake-language is a nice language -- just one or 2 levels over shell script

For the incoming weeks I think I will add GMP/MPC/MPFR to make it portable. Keeping in mind that this project was not supposed to be portable that should be interesting to test this -- maybe a fork !!! ---

Install dependancies

apt install git gcc g++ ragel make ninja-build gyp mercurial nasm autotools-dev autoconf automake libgmp-dev libmpfr-dev libmpc-dev

Update my PATH to poin to Meson 0.44.0, ninja 1.8.2 et cmake (Optional because my Ubuntu is 14.10)

export PATH=/opt/ninja/1.8.2/bin/:/opt/meson/0.44.0/bin/:${PATH}
export PYTHONPATH=/opt/meson/0.44.0/lib/python3.4/site-packages/:$PYTHONPATH
export PATH=/opt/cmake/3.9.3/bin/:$PATH

Download/Build and Install some packages

Download Sources

root@amdgaming:/opt/Sources# git clone https://github.com/lachs0r/mingw-w64-cmake.git
Clonage dans 'mingw-w64-cmake'...
remote: Counting objects: 1685, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
remote: Total 1685 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 1682
Réception d'objets: 100% (1685/1685), 385.48 KiB | 482.00 KiB/s, fait.
Résolution des deltas: 100% (1146/1146), fait.
Vérification de la connectivité... fait.

Modify the project to point to MinGW-w64 version 5.0.3

Go to the folder et edit toolchain/CMakeLists.txt

• root@amdgaming:/opt/Sources# cd mingw-w64-cmake/
   root@amdgaming:/opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake# vim toolchain/CMakeLists.txt 
   

• Comment line 36 and add a new line to point to MinGW-w64 version 5.0.3

   1 ExternalProject_Add(binutils
   2     URL "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.29.1.tar.xz"
   3     URL_HASH SHA256=e7010a46969f9d3e53b650a518663f98a5dde3c3ae21b7d71e5e6803bc36b577
   4     CONFIGURE_COMMAND /configure
   5         --target=${TARGET_ARCH}
   6         --prefix=${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}
   7         --with-sysroot=${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}
   8         --disable-multilib
   9         --disable-nls
  10         --disable-shared
  11     BUILD_COMMAND make -j${MAKEJOBS}
  12     INSTALL_COMMAND make install
  13     LOG_DOWNLOAD 1 LOG_CONFIGURE 1 LOG_BUILD 1 LOG_INSTALL 1
  14 )
  15 
  16 find_program(PKGCONFIG NAMES pkg-config)
  17 
  18 ExternalProject_Add_Step(binutils basedirs
  19     DEPENDEES download
  20     COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}
  21     COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin
  22     COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E create_symlink ${PKGCONFIG} ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin/${TARGET_ARCH}-pkg-config
  23     COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${TARGET_ARCH}
  24     COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E create_symlink ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${TARGET_ARCH} ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/mingw
  25     COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${TARGET_ARCH}/lib
  26     COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E create_symlink ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${TARGET_ARCH}/lib ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${TARGET_ARCH}/lib64
  27     COMMENT "Setting up target directories and symlinks"
  28 )
  29 
  30 ExternalProject_Add(mingw-w64-headers
  31     PREFIX mingw-w64-prefix
  32     STAMP_DIR mingw-w64-prefix/src/mingw-w64-stamp
  33     SOURCE_DIR mingw-w64-prefix/src/mingw-w64
  34     BINARY_DIR mingw-w64-prefix/src/mingw-w64-headers-build
  35     DEPENDS binutils
  36 #    GIT_REPOSITORY git://git.code.sf.net/p/mingw-w64/mingw-w64
  37     URL "http://download2.nust.na/pub4/sourceforge/m/mi/mingw-w64/mingw-w64/mingw-w64-release/mingw-w64-v5.0.3.tar.bz2"
  38     UPDATE_COMMAND ""
  

Configure the project for Linux 32 Bits

root@amdgaming:/opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake# mkdir build-32
root@amdgaming:/opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake# cd build-32/
root@amdgaming:/opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32# cmake -DTARGET_ARCH=i686-w64-mingw32 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/mingw32 -G Ninja ..
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 4.9.1
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 4.9.1
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Parsing package crossc
-- Parsing package icu
-- Parsing package shaderc
-- Parsing package vulkan
-- Parsing package libsoxr
-- Parsing package libzimg
-- Parsing package angle
-- Parsing package gmp
-- Parsing package xz
-- Parsing package lzo
-- Parsing package uchardet
-- Parsing package rubberband
-- Parsing package zlib
-- Parsing package bzip2
-- Parsing package libzip
-- Parsing package libjpeg
-- Parsing package lcms2
-- Parsing package lame
-- Parsing package ogg
-- Parsing package vorbis
-- Parsing package opus
-- Parsing package speex
-- Parsing package libmodplug
-- Parsing package libvpx
-- Parsing package xvidcore
-- Parsing package game-music-emu
-- Parsing package libgpg_error
-- Parsing package libgcrypt
-- Parsing package libpng
-- Parsing package x264
-- Parsing package libdvdcss
-- Parsing package libdvdread
-- Parsing package libdvdnav
-- Parsing package libiconv
-- Parsing package sdl2
-- Parsing package sdl2_mixer
-- Parsing package luajit
-- Parsing package openal-soft
-- Parsing package fribidi
-- Parsing package expat
-- Parsing package boost
-- Parsing package wxWidgets
-- Parsing package libarchive
-- Parsing package freetype2
-- Parsing package sdl2_ttf
-- Parsing package taisei
-- Parsing package libaacs
-- Parsing package libbdplus
-- Parsing package libbluray
-- Parsing package harfbuzz
-- Parsing package libass
-- Parsing package ffmpeg
-- Parsing package mujs
-- Parsing package mpv
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32

Initialize the pre-built toolchain by building a first package

Let's take an easy one zlib

root@amdgaming:/opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32# ninja zlib
[2/58] Performing download step (download, verify and extract) for 'binutils'
-- binutils download command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/binutils-prefix/src/binutils-stamp/binutils-download-*.log
[6/58] Performing configure step for 'binutils'
-- binutils configure command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/binutils-prefix/src/binutils-stamp/binutils-configure-*.log
[7/58] Performing build step for 'binutils'
-- binutils build command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/binutils-prefix/src/binutils-stamp/binutils-build-*.log
[8/58] Performing install step for 'binutils'
-- binutils install command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/binutils-prefix/src/binutils-stamp/binutils-install-*.log
[11/58] Performing download step (git clone) for 'mingw-w64-headers'
-- mingw-w64-headers download command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/mingw-w64-prefix/src/mingw-w64-stamp/mingw-w64-headers-download-*.log
[14/58] Performing autoreconf step for 'mingw-w64-headers'
-- mingw-w64-headers autoreconf command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/mingw-w64-prefix/src/mingw-w64-stamp/mingw-w64-headers-autoreconf-*.log
[15/58] Performing configure step for 'mingw-w64-headers'
-- mingw-w64-headers configure command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/mingw-w64-prefix/src/mingw-w64-stamp/mingw-w64-headers-configure-*.log
[17/58] Performing install step for 'mingw-w64-headers'
-- mingw-w64-headers install command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/mingw-w64-prefix/src/mingw-w64-stamp/mingw-w64-headers-install-*.log
[20/58] Performing download step (download, verify and extract) for 'gcc-base'
-- gcc-base download command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/gcc-prefix/src/gcc-stamp/gcc-base-download-*.log
[22/58] Performing patch step for 'gcc-base'
patching file libstdc++-v3/config/os/mingw32-w64/os_defines.h
[23/58] Performing configure step for 'gcc-base'
-- gcc-base configure command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/gcc-prefix/src/gcc-stamp/gcc-base-configure-*.log
[24/58] Performing build step for 'gcc-base'
-- gcc-base build command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/gcc-prefix/src/gcc-stamp/gcc-base-build-*.log
[25/58] Performing install step for 'gcc-base'
-- gcc-base install command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/gcc-prefix/src/gcc-stamp/gcc-base-install-*.log
[35/58] Performing configure step for 'winpthreads'
-- winpthreads configure command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/mingw-w64-prefix/src/winpthreads-stamp/winpthreads-configure-*.log
[36/58] Performing build step for 'winpthreads'
-- winpthreads build command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/mingw-w64-prefix/src/winpthreads-stamp/winpthreads-build-*.log
[37/58] Performing install step for 'winpthreads'
-- winpthreads install command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/mingw-w64-prefix/src/winpthreads-stamp/winpthreads-install-*.log
[39/58] Performing configure step for 'mingw-w64-crt'
-- mingw-w64-crt configure command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/mingw-w64-prefix/src/mingw-w64-crt-stamp/mingw-w64-crt-configure-*.log
[40/58] Performing build step for 'mingw-w64-crt'
-- mingw-w64-crt build command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/mingw-w64-prefix/src/mingw-w64-crt-stamp/mingw-w64-crt-build-*.log
[41/58] Performing install step for 'mingw-w64-crt'
-- mingw-w64-crt install command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/mingw-w64-prefix/src/mingw-w64-crt-stamp/mingw-w64-crt-install-*.log
[48/58] Performing build step for 'gcc'
-- gcc build command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/gcc-prefix/src/gcc-stamp/gcc-build-*.log
[49/58] Performing install step for 'gcc'
-- gcc install command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/toolchain/gcc-prefix/src/gcc-stamp/gcc-install-*.log
[52/58] Performing download step (download, verify and extract) for 'zlib'
-- zlib download command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/zlib-prefix/src/zlib-stamp/zlib-download-*.log
[54/58] Performing patch step for 'zlib'
patching file Makefile.in
patching file configure
[55/58] Performing configure step for 'zlib'
-- zlib configure command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/zlib-prefix/src/zlib-stamp/zlib-configure-*.log
[56/58] Performing build step for 'zlib'
-- zlib build command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/zlib-prefix/src/zlib-stamp/zlib-build-*.log
[57/58] Performing install step for 'zlib'
-- zlib install command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/zlib-prefix/src/zlib-stamp/zlib-install-*.log
[58/58] Completed 'zlib'

Let's install others packages for fun: bzip2, xz, lzo, libiconv, expat

root@amdgaming:/opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32# ninja xz bzip2 lzo
[4/27] Performing download step (download, verify and extract) for 'bzip2'
-- bzip2 download command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/bzip2-prefix/src/bzip2-stamp/bzip2-download-*.log
[5/27] Performing patch step for 'bzip2'
patching file bzip2.c
patching file bzlib.h
[8/27] Performing build step for 'bzip2'
-- bzip2 build command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/bzip2-prefix/src/bzip2-stamp/bzip2-build-*.log
[9/27] Performing install step for 'bzip2'
-- bzip2 install command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/bzip2-prefix/src/bzip2-stamp/bzip2-install-*.log
[11/27] Performing download step (download, verify and extract) for 'lzo'
-- lzo download command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/lzo-prefix/src/lzo-stamp/lzo-download-*.log
[14/27] Performing configure step for 'lzo'
-- lzo configure command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/lzo-prefix/src/lzo-stamp/lzo-configure-*.log
[15/27] Performing build step for 'lzo'
-- lzo build command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/lzo-prefix/src/lzo-stamp/lzo-build-*.log
[16/27] Performing install step for 'lzo'
-- lzo install command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/lzo-prefix/src/lzo-stamp/lzo-install-*.log
[18/27] Performing download step (git clone) for 'xz'
-- xz download command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/xz-prefix/src/xz-stamp/xz-download-*.log
[19/27] Performing force-update step for 'xz'
-- xz force-update command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/xz-prefix/src/xz-stamp/xz-force-update-*.log
[22/27] Performing autogen step for 'xz'
-- xz autogen command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/xz-prefix/src/xz-stamp/xz-autogen-*.log
[23/27] Performing configure step for 'xz'
-- xz configure command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/xz-prefix/src/xz-stamp/xz-configure-*.log
[24/27] Performing build step for 'xz'
-- xz build command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/xz-prefix/src/xz-stamp/xz-build-*.log
[26/27] Performing install step for 'xz'
-- xz install command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/xz-prefix/src/xz-stamp/xz-install-*.log
[27/27] Completed 'xz'
root@amdgaming:/opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32# ninja libiconv
[2/8] Performing download step (download, verify and extract) for 'libiconv'
-- libiconv download command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/libiconv-prefix/src/libiconv-stamp/libiconv-download-*.log
[5/8] Performing configure step for 'libiconv'
-- libiconv configure command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/libiconv-prefix/src/libiconv-stamp/libiconv-configure-*.log
[6/8] Performing build step for 'libiconv'
-- libiconv build command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/libiconv-prefix/src/libiconv-stamp/libiconv-build-*.log
[7/8] Performing install step for 'libiconv'
-- libiconv install command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/libiconv-prefix/src/libiconv-stamp/libiconv-install-*.log
[8/8] Completed 'libiconv'
root@amdgaming:/opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32# ninja expat
[2/8] Performing download step (download, verify and extract) for 'expat'
-- expat download command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/expat-prefix/src/expat-stamp/expat-download-*.log
[5/8] Performing configure step for 'expat'
-- expat configure command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/expat-prefix/src/expat-stamp/expat-configure-*.log
[6/8] Performing build step for 'expat'
-- expat build command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/expat-prefix/src/expat-stamp/expat-build-*.log
[7/8] Performing install step for 'expat'
-- expat install command succeeded.  See also /opt/Sources/mingw-w64-cmake/build-32/packages/expat-prefix/src/expat-stamp/expat-install-*.log
[8/8] Completed 'expat'

Some links to keep in my notes

• Using_Wine_as_an_interpreter_for_Win16.2FWin32_binaries