OpenUSD requires some pyhon dep packages during build. So, after all this, sadly, we now need to have a venv for this.

.gitignore

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 build.log
 .idea/
 *.pyc
+.venv/

build_functions/build_openssl.py

@@ -5,14 +5,7 @@
 import os
 import zipfile
 from pathlib import Path
-
-# we need requests to download perl package but I don't want to install a venv just for that
-# with this trick we can use requests that comes bundled with pip
-try:
-    import requests
-except ImportError:
-    import pip._vendor.requests as requests
-
+import requests
 from build_functions.build_utils import run_in_shell, print_banner, file_and_console_log
 from common.azure import write_package_version_batch
 from common.directory_helpers import pushd, get_local_prefix

build_functions/build_openusd.py

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from common.azure import write_package_version_batch
 from common.cmake import cmake_build_install
 import common.settings
 from common.git_helpers import clone_git_tag
+from common.settings import temporarily_set_shared
 from package.package_info import get_package_info
 
 def build_openusd(prefix: Path | str, sbom: dict):
@@ -18,21 +19,28 @@ def build_openusd(prefix: Path | str, sbom: dict):
     package_info = get_package_info("openusd")
     package_info.add_to_sbom(sbom)
 
+    # I mistook boost for a direct dependency but it turned out to be an indirect one.
+    # Various other, optional, dependencies such as OpenImageIO use it.
+    # We don't have them in here yet but I keep boost to prepare for that
+    boost_install_path = package_info.dependency_path("boost")
+    hdf5_install_path = package_info.dependency_path("hdf5")
     onetbb_install_path = package_info.dependency_path("onetbb")
     opensubdiv_install_path = package_info.dependency_path("opensubdiv")
     zlib_install_path = package_info.dependency_path("zlib")
 
-
+    # OpenUSD definately doesn't want to be build static. Only errors. DLL it is then.
+    with temporarily_set_shared():
         cmake_args = [
-        # We're gonna need Python but I had trouble compiling the bindings.
-        # Disabled for the first tests
-        ("PXR_ENABLE_PYTHON_SUPPORT:BOOL", "OFF"),
-
-        ("PXR_BUILD_EXAMPLES:BOOL", "OFF"),
+            ("PXR_ENABLE_PYTHON_SUPPORT:BOOL", "ON"),
+            ("PXR_ENABLE_HDF5_SUPPORT:BOOL", "ON"),
+            ("PXR_BUILD_EXAMPLES:BOOL", "ON"),
             ("PXR_BUILD_TESTS:BOOL", "OFF"),
             ("PXR_BUILD_TUTORIALS:BOOL", "ON"),
-
             ("PXR_BUILD_HTML_DOCUMENTATION:BOOL", "OFF"),
+
+            ("hdf5_DIR:PATH", str(hdf5_install_path / "cmake")),
+            ("Boost_ROOT:PATH", str(boost_install_path)),
+            ("Boost_DIR:PATH", str(boost_install_path / "lib" / "cmake" / "Boost-1.88.0")),
             ("TBB_DIR:PATH", str(onetbb_install_path / "lib" / "cmake" / "TBB")),
             ("OpenSubdiv_DIR:PATH", str(opensubdiv_install_path / "lib" / "cmake" / "OpenSubdiv")),
             ("ZLIB_ROOT:PATH", str(zlib_install_path)),

packages.json

@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@
     "version": "25.5.1",
     "depends": [
       "boost",
+      "hdf5",
       "onetbb",
       "opensubdiv",
       "zlib"

requirements.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+pyside6
+jinja2
+pyopengl
+requests