Re: [gimpwin-users] Re: Can't Build the GIMP

Kevin Myers writes:
 > 1) I thought that
 > configure was supposed to detect MinGW and automatically pick up the
 > Makefile.mingw?

Nope. makefile.mingw is for use as such, when building without running
the configure script at all.

  2) If not, then I would have assumed that I just needed to
 > completely replace the regular Makefile with Makefile.mingw, rather than
 > only copying over specific chunks?

If you use ./configure etc, you shouldn't need to look at
makefile.mingw at all. It was just a mistake that the rule to produce
gimp.def from gimp.sym had been left out from Makefile.am, and I
hadn't noticed as I already had the gimp.def file there.

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