Building MoonRay on Rocky Linux 9
Start with reading the general build instructions.
This document gives more explicit instructions for building on a Rocky Linux 9 installation. To keep it concrete, I’ve chosen specific directory locations, which you can change as needed:
- /source location of the openmoonray repository clone
- /build CMake build directory
- /installs/moonray location to install MoonRay
To clone the source from the github repo (on the host), use this git command:
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/dreamworksanimation/openmoonray.git /source
You can place the clone anywhere : the rest of this document assumes it is in /source, so change any reference to /source to your chosen location.
If you want to include MoonRay GPU support, you will also need to download the NVIDIA Optix headers (from here), which require an EULA. Be sure to download version 7.3, as MoonRay is not yet compatible with their more recent releases. Once you have extracted the download contents, note the location of the header files (under include) : these will be copied to /usr/local/include during the process.
Step 1. Base requirements
The first step is to install some additional RPM packages. The script building/Rocky9/install_packages.sh will install the packages and perform some environment variable setup.
source /source/building/Rocky9/install_packages.sh
You can add arguments --nocuda and --noqt to skip GPU and GUI support respectively.
Step 2. Build the remaining dependencies
The next step is to build the remaining dependencies from source. The CMake project building/Rocky9/CMakeLists.txt contains targets that will do it automatically.
You need to create a CMake build directory : it can be anywhere, but I will use /build. The build directory should generally be empty before starting this step, unless you are deliberately performing an incremental rebuild.
mkdir /build
cd /build
cmake /source/building/Rocky9
cmake --build . -- -j $(nproc)
The option “-j $(nproc)” tells CMake to use all available cores on your machine for building. You may see a number of warning messages during the build.
If you are building with GPU support, copy the Optix headers that you downloaded and extracted into /usr/local
> cp -r /tmp/optix/include/* /usr/local/include
Step 3. Build MoonRay
The main CMake project in openmoonray builds MoonRay itself. I will use the same /build directory as before (though you don’t have to), but it must be empty before running cmake.
cd /build
rm -rf *
cmake /source -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=python3 -DBOOST_PYTHON_COMPONENT_NAME=python39 -DABI_VERSION=0
cmake --build . -j $(nproc)
The install step will install to /installs/openmoonray : again, this directory is arbitrary, and you can install wherever you like.
mkdir /installs/openmoonray
cmake --install /build --prefix /installs/openmoonray
You can use the options -DBUILD_QT_APPS=NO and -DMOONRAY_USE_OPTIX=NO in the first CMake command to disable GUI apps and GPU support respectively.
To set up the install and test moonray:
> source /installs/openmoonray/scripts/setup.sh
> moonray -in /source/testdata/rectangle.rdla -out /tmp/rectangle.exr
> moonray_gui -in /source/testdata/rectangle.rdla -out /tmp/rectangle.exr
> hd_render -in /source/testdata/sphere.usd -out /tmp/sphere.exr
If everything is working, the moonray command should produce output like this:
Loading Scene File(s): /source/testdata/rectangle.rdla
Render prep time = 00:00:00.008
[+] Rendering [======================] 100.0%
00:00:01 671.2 MB | ---------- Time ------------------------------------------
00:00:01 671.2 MB | Render time = 00:00:01.404000
00:00:01 671.2 MB | Total time = 00:00:01.442000
Wrote /tmp/rectangle.exr