WITH_PYTHON_INSTALL_NUMPY option for unix/cmake, just copies from site-packages.

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@ if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
 	option(WITH_INSTALL_PORTABLE "Install redistributeable runtime, otherwise install into CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX" ON)
 endif()
 option(WITH_PYTHON_INSTALL       "Copy system python into the blender install folder" ON)
+option(WITH_PYTHON_INSTALL_NUMPY "Copy system numpy into the blender install folder"  ON)
 option(WITH_MINGW64                   "Use the 64-bit version of MinGW" OFF)
 mark_as_advanced(WITH_MINGW64)
 
@@ -1612,6 +1613,13 @@ if(WITH_PYTHON)
 							"to a valid python include path. Containing "
 							"Python.h for python version \"${PYTHON_VERSION}\"")
 	endif()
+
+	if(WITH_PYTHON_INSTALL_NUMPY)
+		if(NOT EXISTS "${PYTHON_LIBPATH}/python${PYTHON_VERSION}/site-packages/numpy")
+			message(WARNING "Numpy path '${PYTHON_LIBPATH}/python${PYTHON_VERSION}/site-packages/numpy' is missing, "
+							"WITH_PYTHON_INSTALL_NUMPY option will be ignored when installing python")
+		endif()
+	endif()
 endif()
 
 
@@ -1668,7 +1676,7 @@ if(FIRST_RUN)
 		_setting)
 		set(_msg "   * ${_setting}")
 		string(LENGTH "${_msg}" _len)
-		while("28" GREATER "${_len}")
+		while("32" GREATER "${_len}")
 			set(_msg "${_msg} ")
 			 math(EXPR _len "${_len} + 1")
 		endwhile()
@@ -1728,6 +1736,7 @@ if(FIRST_RUN)
 
 	info_cfg_text("Python:")
 	info_cfg_option(WITH_PYTHON_INSTALL)
+	info_cfg_option(WITH_PYTHON_INSTALL_NUMPY)
 	info_cfg_option(WITH_PYTHON_MODULE)
 	info_cfg_option(WITH_PYTHON_SAFETY)
 

source/creator/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -438,7 +438,28 @@ if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
 
 			# # doesnt work, todo
 			# install(CODE "execute_process(COMMAND find ${TARGETDIR}/${BLENDER_VERSION}/python/lib/ -name '*.so' -exec strip -s {} '\;')")
+			
+			if(WITH_PYTHON_INSTALL_NUMPY)
+				install(
+					DIRECTORY ${PYTHON_LIBPATH}/python${PYTHON_VERSION}/site-packages/numpy
+					DESTINATION ${TARGETDIR_VER}/python/${_target_LIB}/python${PYTHON_VERSION}/site-packages
+					PATTERN ".svn" EXCLUDE
+					PATTERN "__pycache__" EXCLUDE           # * any cache *
+					PATTERN "*.pyc" EXCLUDE                 # * any cache *
+					PATTERN "*.pyo" EXCLUDE                 # * any cache *
+					PATTERN "distutils" EXCLUDE             # ./distutils
+					PATTERN "oldnumeric" EXCLUDE            # ./oldnumeric
+					PATTERN "doc" EXCLUDE                   # ./doc
+					PATTERN "tests" EXCLUDE                 # ./tests
+					PATTERN "f2py" EXCLUDE                  # ./f2py - fortran/python interface code, not fun for blender devs.
+					PATTERN "include" EXCLUDE               # include dirs all over, we wont use NumPy/CAPI
+					PATTERN "*.h" EXCLUDE                   # some includes are not in include dirs
+					PATTERN "*.a" EXCLUDE                   # ./core/lib/libnpymath.a - for linking, we dont need.
+				)
+			endif()
+			
 			unset(_target_LIB)
+			
 		endif()
 	endif()
 elseif(WIN32)