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

> 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.

Yeah, the po Makefile stuff is so complicated I have never bothered
even trying to use a normal make or make install there.

> Once I get everything to build correctly, will make install have a
> prayer of actually installing the gimp correctly on my Win 2K
> system?

From the top-level, I don't think so. Easiest to just do "make
install" separately in the libgimp, app and plug-ins directory, and
elsewhere (modules, data directories, help, po*) carefully checking
what happens.

> Will it interfere with or try to replace my existing gimp
> 1.2.4, which was installed from a binary distribution?

Not unless you have used the same prefix when running configure.

> 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.

Note that even if 1.3.x can use a larger than 2 GB GIMP swap file on
Unix, I am not sure whether it will work on Windows.

Building 1.3.x on Windows is much harder than 1.2.x, because it has
been split up into more pieces (libraries), and there are some complex
interdependencies among the pieces. (The main GIMP developers use
Linux, where the ELF object format makes many things much easier than
on Windows, or other platforms with some other object/executable file
format than ELF.)

I tried once myself many months ago, but ran into so many gotchas that
I gave up then, and haven't had time to try again. Hans Breuer has at
least at some point built it using MSVC, but then he built some of the
libraries that are shared libraries on Unix as static libraries.

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