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Building Gimp 2.0 on Windows XP?
Anonymouse asks: "Has anyone out there just had the urge to build Gimp 2.0 on Windows instead of using an installer made by a third party, hosted on a free web hosting service? It's probably fine but it makes me nervous, so I figure I should try building it on Windows instead...besides, it could be educational! Does anyone have any instructions/suggestions for building the source on Windows XP using MinGW and MinSYS? Keep in mind I have no experience with *nix, and my meek programing skillz only apply to Perl. Thanks!"
Nope. No. Nuh-uh.
Next!
If you really want to compile from scratch, do it on Linux first with native Linux programs. When you get the hang of that, move to Windows. I'm all for sink-or-swim type trials, but, in this case, I think you'll sink. Very quickly.
Second that. Most software builds are much more extensively tested and used (and made easier and more reliable to build) under Linux. Linux distros come with a good set-up-in-a-standard-manner development toolset.
A lot of Windows port work isn't kept up-to-date.
Putting together your own cygwin or mingw toolchain (not that that's a bad idea in general) already is a severe pain in the ass. It can be real black magic to figure out what people last did to get primarily-used-on-UNIX-software building. When you couple that with the fact that there are all *sorts* of interesting problems that come up on Windows (case sensitivity suddenly existing, line feeds mattering, etc) things can get much more interesting.
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Jeez. What is going on with the quality of the Ask Slashdot questions these days?
What next? "I'm J.Random Hax0R and I thought that I should get my own 3733t L1nux shell setup on my 14.4k modem and like I've got this 486DX33 with 8MB of RAM and a SoundBlaster Pro card but I can't work out how to recompile my own kernel. Can somebody tell me how and give me the config file as well? Greetz to Scr1ptK1dd1es and MrHax0RXtreme"
The Gimp Wiki has plenty of information on how to compile Gimp for Windows so it's not exactly like the knowledge is particularly well hidden or proprietory. The relevant Wiki page is here. Is it so hard for somebody these days to even attempt to read the manual/documentation or search themselves?
Who needs to think when we can just Ask Slashdot! We'll use the collective minds of several million people to work out how to use Google to search for steps to compile Gimp under Windows...
Doesn't this belong on an appropriate mailing list or something?
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i though SCO bashing relieved stress from (RI/MP)AA bashing.
That should be "case insensitivity".
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And why don't you just go to the GIMP homepage, subscribe to the GIMP mailing list and ask the developers ?
... all in the correct order and with the right options (like Xft support, and if you want to use your graphic tablet you need XInput... at least on Linux/UNIX, YMMV on Windows of course)).
Seriously, if you're so lazy that you're using Ask Slashdot instead of their mailing list you should stick with the installer ! Especially since compiling GIMP 2.0 is diving into dependency hell (you'll need to compile about half a dozen libraries first, ATK, glib, GTK+,
Really? I don't know about other people, but where I work we do this stuff with computers!
Maintaining a team of people to autobuild would be really expensive, but maintaining a couple of computers to do it has mostly involved some setup costs.
And it has been utterly fantastic, in terms of making sure we don't deliver broken software :-)