re-compiling the GIF plugin

cameron2 writes:
 > I'd like to recompile the gif plugin with the changes
 > that I made to the unix version (RLE/uncompressed gif's)

 > but even just recompiling with the old code, it doens't seem to work.
 > (crashes - windows version of null ptr exception).

 > gcc -mpentium -fnative-struct -o gif.exe -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
 > -DGTK_DISABLE_COMPAT_H gif.c -I ../.. -I ../../../include
 > -I ../../../include/glib-2.0 -I ../../../lib/glib-2.0/include
 > -I ../../../lib/gtk+/include -L/Progra~1/Gimp/lib
 >   -lintl -liconv -lgimp-1-2-0 -lgimpui-1-2-0
 >   -lgtk-0 -lgdk-0 -lglib-2.0-0

Seems fine to me (except that I would use the import libraries, not
the DLLs when linking. I.e. specify -lgimp -lgimpui -lgtk -lgdk
-lglib-2.0).

 > then copy gif.exe into the lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins dir.
 > I tried with -mpentiumpro and also without -fnative-struct (which didn't
 > seem right, but I thought I'd try since tor didn't mention that in his
 > last "how I configure" ...)

What version of gcc are you using? Are you sure it recognizes the
-fnative-struct switch? Not that I think that would matter for the gif
plug-in. Your problem seems like a mystery to me... Hmm, you do use
the mingw version of gcc, not the one in Cygwin?

--tml