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

Hi Tor -

First of all, I just wanted to let you know that I'm receiving all of your
replies, and to say THANKS!!!  I also just reviewed the newsgroup thread
that you posted earlier, and that was also most helpful.

Presently, I have been able to successfully make everything until make got
down to the po directories.  It initially quit there because there was no
Makefile, and at least one other missing file I believe.  I considered
copying those files in from a 1.2.3 source distribution, but realize of
course that could end up making a mess.  I didn't yet try your
Makefile.mingw files in those directories, but suspect those would probably
work all on their own without copying in additional files.  So, I'm still
looking into that at this point.

Currently I am wondering about some install related issues, even though I am
not yet to that point:  Once I get everything to build correctly, will
make -install have a prayer of actually installing the gimp correctly on my
Win 2K system?  Will it interfere with or try to replace my existing gimp
1.2.4, which was installed from a binary distribution?  I would like to go
through the full process, including an install, so that I will begin to
learn what might be involved with porting and installing 1.3.x distribution,
so that I can do some testing with large images.

At the moment, I am reading up on some of the build tools, including
autoconf, automake, and libtool.  I've downloaded the most recent stable
versions of each.  Right now I'm still definitely in a major learning mode,
though I am starting to understand better how things fit together.  I
thought that I was beginning to get the hang of it, until I hit the po
directories which I'm just starting to look into and don't yet comprehend.

Anyway, thanks once again for all of your help.

Regards,
s/KAM


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tor Lillqvist" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [gimpwin-users] Re: [gimpwin-dev] 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.
>
> --tml
>
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