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This is an unstable version of the GIMP, intended for developers
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only. Even more so the Win32 port.
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For more information about the port or GLib, GTk+ and the GIMP to
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native Windows, and pre-built binary packages, see
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http://www.iki.fi/tml/gimp/win32/ or
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http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/
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To build the GIMP on Win32, you can use either Microsoft Visual C++ or
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gcc under cygwin (without the produced executables depending on the
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cygwin dll) (gcc -mno-cygwin). For more information about the
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preparation necessary for building with gcc, what version you want and
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where to get it, etc, read README.win32 in GLib 1.3 (or later). (GLib
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1.3 isn't distributed per se, but available from CVS, and in tml's
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source snapshots.)
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The GIMP wants to be built with the GNU "intl" library for
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internationalisation (i18n). Get the version ported to Win32 from
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tml's web site mentioned above. We build the "intl" library to a DLL
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called gnu-intl.dll to reduce name clash risks. If you don't want any
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i18n stuff, undefine ENABLE_NLS in the config.h.win32 file, and remove
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references to the gnu-intl library from the makefiles.
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Note that while the GNU gettext package is under the GPL (GNU General
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Public License), the "intl" library part as distributed with GNU libc
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is under the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License, a.k.a. GNU
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Library General Public License) (like GTk+ and GLib). We want the
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LGPL-licensed version of the intl library, even if they are the same,
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more or less. It doesn't matter much for the GIMP which itself is also
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licensed under the GPL, but it does matter for GTk+, which is licensed
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under the LGPL.
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First, build in the libgimp directory, then in app, plug-ins, and
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finally in modules. Check the makefile.msc or makefile.cygwin files in
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said directories.
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The current build setup for Windows is a mess, with complex
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hand-maintained makefiles. I know. Adding parallel makefiles for gcc
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didn't make it any cleaner. On the other hand, I don't think using the
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Unix style configuration mechanism (under cygwin) is quite feasible,
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either.
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--Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>
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