I am able to build it on 16.04, so technically there seems no obstacle. I just did not manage to find Pascals email address yet to ask him. Could you please find his address and ask?
K, sorry @aequalis, please ignore my stupid advice and do not contact Pascal. Isn’t there another source for ubuntu packages, with Opensuse or something similar? I have to research tonight … I would be happy to find a source as well, since I do not want to use my self compiled version for my production database, since I may have done something wrong.
That’s the OBS darix and I mentioned - so I guess, it’s time to switch from the PPA to the OBS. I was just wondering, why only the PPA for 16.04 didn’t received the update.
I just tested my self compiled version against the one from OBS, and I found that the self compiled one is by order of magnitudes faster. Any idea what’s wrong with the OBS build?
Probably nothing. Repositories use generic CPU optimizations for SSE2. Self-builds use optimizations for your specific architecture/processor.
If your CPU is recent and supports AVX/AVX2, it can give a serious boost to the performance.
But that could also come from the compilation environment (for example, missing dependencies disabling support of multi-threading or OpenCL, or different compiler).
I must say this version 2.6 works perfectlty and I have noticed no bugs comparing to all versions used before. Really, devs, consider collecting donations, even if they provide you with just one more beer. Your work is worth being paid for either way!
I second that. For the last two or three years (at least) darktable has had a bad tendency to crash when importing images. I reported this quite early, but no one seemed to have a solution so I just stuck with it. Now in 2.6 this has so far not happened even once: It’s been rock steady. That alone would have made me satisfied, and then all the new features on top of that, things couldn’t be better
Can anybody give indications on how to make builds for specific architecture? What I’m able to do is to do simple builds on my machine from latest git master cloned from the original repo. I.e., launch build.sh and then install…
What are the options available, where to check, what to activate etc (my laptop is a Dell XPS15 with i7-7700HQ@2.8Ghz Kabylake / Geforce GTX1050)?
I’m just going to start a journey on the DT, but a bit difficult to get started with and I’ve stuck with it a while, but don’t want to lose it because I hope Darktable will be the best free alternative to Lightroom.
I hope, I am not OT in this thread with such recommendation…
There’s is a bunch of brilliant tutors on youtube, like (but not limited herto) Robert Hutton, Riley Brandt, Harry Durgin, Bruce Williams…
Check them out and you become a dt-pro soon