[gimpwin-users] Re: 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.

 > 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?

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