Two independent fixes for the install layout:
1. Cycles bundles old MSVC CRT DLLs (MSVCP140 v14.34, VCRUNTIME140 v14.34)
that are placed in install/bin/ via the CYCLES_INSTALL_DIR copy. These take
precedence over System32 on the DLL search path. sycl8.dll (built with newer
VS2022 CRT v14.42) calls functions that don't exist in the old version, causing
ERROR_DLL_INIT_FAILED (1114) when hdCycles.dll loads embree4 -> sycl8. Fix:
exclude MSVCP140*.dll, VCRUNTIME140*.dll, ucrtbase*.dll, api-ms-win-*.dll from
the install(DIRECTORY cycles_install/) rule. The system VC++ Redistributable
satisfies these at runtime.
2. usd_python.dll (the OpenUSD Python bindings DLL) was compiled against Python
3.11 while our build targets Python 3.12. Add auto-detection of python311.dll
from common install paths and deploy it to both the build output and install/bin/
so the dependency chain hdCycles->usd_python->python311 is satisfied.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Build Cycles from third_party/cycles via ExternalProject (WITH_CYCLES=ON)
- Deploy hdCycles.dll + plugin metadata to usd/ alongside hdEmbree/hdArnold
- Copy Cycles runtime deps (embree4, openvdb, OIDN, sycl, imath, etc.) via
a cmake -P script that globs at build time, excluding CRT DLLs to avoid
MSVCP140 version conflicts
- Deploy tbb12.dll explicitly from the precompiled lib tree (required by
openvdb/embree4 but absent from the install output)
- Bake all renderer paths into CMakePresets.json default preset
(WITH_CYCLES, HDARNOLD_ROOT -> E:/library/hdArnold, ARNOLD_LOCATION,
HDEMBREE_USD_ROOT) so a fresh configure needs no manual -D flags
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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