Dev:Doc/Tools

Development Tools

Services

• Phabricator: the software powering developer.blender.org
• Git: how to download, update and commit code
• Subversion: how to check out prebuild libraries and translations
• Patches and Diffs: how to work with patches and diffs
• Code Review: review code before committing
• CMake for Developers: Extra information for developers on using CMake.
• BuildBot: automated builds at builder.blender.org

Build Tools

• distcc: Distributed building.

Debugging

Debugging C/C++

• GDB: debugging on Unix system
• Address Sanitizer: debugging with GCC/ASAN
• Valgrind: detecting memory errors (linux/osx only)
• BuGLe: OpenGL debugging
• Py from C: run Python scripts in C code (test changes without rebuilds).

Debugging Python

• Eclipse PyDev: How to debug Python scripts running in Blender from the Eclipse IDE.
• Profiling: How to profile Python function calls.
• Tracing: How to log script execution.

Automated Testing

Phabricator Project Page listing tasks.

• GTest: C/C++ tests using GTest
• Python Tests: Python testing

Guides

• Coding Tips: how to navigate the code and debug problems.
• Blender Dev Tools: how to setup Blenders optional developer tools repo.

Documentation

• User Refrence Manual: information about editing the reference manual.
• Doxygen (TODO)