Building Gimp 2.0 on Windows XP?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday April 7, 2004 @11:42AM from the why-not? dept.

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!"

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Building a native win32 gimp? by winchester · 2004-04-07 19:46 · Score: 3, Interesting

IMO it would be a lot more challenging to try and build a native win32 binary. Yes, this means using the dreaded MFC, though I myself would prefer the way cleaner implementation of the ATL (or even the largely undocumented WTL).

Of course building a Gimp 2 in managed code on the .NET platform would be even more interesting... imagine having a complete managed open source application to run on Longhorn way before anyone else has one...