Re: [gimpwin-users] libtool crach in gimp compiling

Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> (This really is more suited for gimpwin-dev, Cc:ing there.)
> 
> Cyrille Grange writes:
>  >        .libs/impgen ../../libgimp/.libs/libgimpui-1-2-0.dll > 
>  > .libs/libgimpui-1-2-0.dll-def
>  > generating import library for `libgimpui-1-2-0.dll'
> 
> works, while:
> 
>  >        .libs/impgen 
>  > /usr/local/src/gimp-1.2.3/libgimp/.libs/libgimp-1-2-0.dll > 
>  > .libs/libgimp-1-2-0.dll-def
>  > make[1]: *** [script-fu.exe] Error 1
> 
> fails.
> 
>  > What i don't anderstand, is that everything goes well with 
>  > libgimpui-1-2-0.dll but impgen seems to fail on libgimp-1-2-0.dll
> 
> One possible explanation is that the first time impgen gets run, the
> argument is a relative path to ../../libgimp/....  This relative path
> means the same both in Cygwin and Windows.
> 
> However, the second impgen (for some reason I don't understand right
> now) is invoked on /usr/local/src/... This is a absolute Cygwin
> path. Presumably it is not a valid Windows path, i.e. /usr/local/src
> in Cygwin is not current_drive:\usr\local\src in Windows? The
> impgen.exe that libtool produces presumably is a non-Cygwin program
> (if you have the mingw gcc first in your PATH, as you should), and
> doesn't understand Cygwin paths.
> 
> Because of problems like this, I always make sure that the same paths
> to source files are valid both in Cygwin and pure Windows when working
> with auto* and libtool. I have GLib, GTK+, GIMP etc sources in I:\src,
> which is mounted in Cygwin as /src. Thus, if my current directory is
> for instance I:\src\gimp\plug-ins\common, the path /src/gimp/libgimp
> is valid both in Cygwin and Windows, and refers to the same location.
> 
> Ditto for the installation target (prefix), it's also best if that is
> the same both from Cygwin's and Windows' point of view.
> 
> --tml

Thank's a lot Tor, it really help in plug-ins compilations. A lot of 
errors came from that.