Re: Can't Build the GIMP

See below...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tor Lillqvist" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 3:13 PM
Subject: [gimpwin-users] Re: [gimpwin-dev] Can't Build the GIMP


> Kevin Myers writes:
>  > 1. Had to comment out the lines in configure that were enabling
>  > the -fnative_struct (undocumented?) compiler flag.  Apparantly that is
>  > incompatible with the MinGW version of gcc that I downloaded (version
3.2
>  > mingw special 20020817-1).
>
> Use -mms-bitfields instead. It is *essential* to use these flags when
> compiling code to use the prebuilt GTK+ DLLs. Otherwise your GIMP will
> think various GTK structs have fields at different offsets than where
> GTK+ thinks they are, and mysterious bugs will result.

Thanks, I was concerned about that.  I did just see this in your newsgroup
thread as well.  I haven't yet subscribed to the gimp newsgroup, but plan to
do so now that I'm aware of it.


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>  > 2. Had to delete intl from the SUBDIRS variable in the top level
>  > Makefile.
>
> Good...
>
>  > 3. Had to change DATADIR to GDATDIR in the Makefile for libgimp and in
>  > gimpenv.c, because MinGW had a conflicting definition and use of
DATADIR in
>  > one of its windows related header files.
>
> Hmm, I haven't noticed that. Maybe it's some quite new addition to the
> mingw headers (I have a relatively old mingw installtion). What header
> file, and what's the value of DATADIR in it?

DATADIR is in my d:\MinGW\include\objidl.h file.  As you can see below, it
has been defined as typedef that is completely unrelated to the usage in the
GIMP.  By the way, I am using Windows binary distributions of both MinGW
2.0.0-3 and mSys 1.0.7, downloaded from sourceforge.  Here is the relevant
extract:

typedef enum tagDATADIR {
    DATADIR_GET=1,
    DATADIR_SET
} DATADIR


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