Re: Can't Build the GIMP

Hi Tor -

Thanks a lot for all of the extremely helpful info.  If building 1.3.x under
Windows was difficult enough to cause you problems, and to force another
veteran developer into taking oddball shortcuts, then I may be dreaming to
think that I could even remotely begin to accomplish what I had hoped.  That
is very disappointing, but I definitely appreciate the info.  I can be
pretty darn determined, stubborn, and persistent, but it appears in this
case that I may need to completely re-think my approach, as I am rapidly
running out of time.  Unfortunately, I don't know of ANY other workable
options at the moment.  :-(

Regards,
s/KAM


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tor Lillqvist" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 4:11 AM
Subject: Re: [gimpwin-users] Re: [gimpwin-dev] 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.
>
> --tml
>
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