
Discover the wide toolset available in Blender, defining a complete pipeline (from modeling to sequence editing) controlled by a flexible and consistent user interface. It comes with multitude of powerful features for editing, rendering, 3d modeling, animation, and playback.

In addition to this DLL, api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll is required to run Blender because of Python.Blende r is an extremely powerful, cross-platform 3D graphic tool. The OpenEXR files will be copied to openexr\bin, overwriting the files present. To do this clone the OpenEXR repository (to avoid problems clone the version that is present in the repository), git apply the openexr_w7.patch from this repository in OpenEXR source and run build.cmd. To workaround this issue, before building Blender (after make update) you must build OpenEXR. Because of this, OpenEXR.dll from Blender's library repository will not work. When OpenEXR is built targetting Windows 8 or newer it will use CreateFile2, which is not present on Windows 7, instead of CreateFile. Starting with version 3.5 some static libraries were switched to shared as described in Library changes for Blender 3.5. To use the your own build of this compatibility DLL, overwrite the files in the lib/win64_vc15/bcompat7 directory created after running make update.

This repository contains a compatibility DLL for running Blender 3.x on Windows 7 and a patch to modify the Blender source to use it.

Windows 7 support for Blender 3.x Description
