Thanks for the info. This should get me at least a bit further. I
might try using a LiveCD or something to cross-compile. Again thanks
for the information.
BTW, did you do your Windows experiment using the "normal" mingw, or
using TDM's GCC?
The "normal" one :p
On 2012-05-07 00:37, Victor Oliveira wrote:
As far as I know, there are really few Windows
developers for GIMP (one or two?), basically, all development is
done on Linux and because of that, Windows-only problems are
discovered just at the end of the release cycle.
I spent a long time trying to discover how to compile GIMP in
Windows, even though I'm a Linux developer, I needed to run it in
Windows for my OpenCL work because my GPU doesn't have a Linux
driver.
At first, I tried to use MinGW+MSYS in Windows, it worked, but it
is _extremely_ slow... like 3~4 hours to build GIMP and
dependencies. Also, it had some random bugs.
Much better is to use mingw-w64 in Linux to build Windows
binaries.
Anyway, here is what I've been doing.
System: Ubuntu 12.04LST
1. Install mingw-w64
2. use the grab-stuff.sh script (from Ender) to download
precompiled packages from OpenSUSE repositories, change your
prefix in the script
3. What we need will be extracted to
./usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw
4. set your environment vars like the env.sh file (change to your
directories)
5. get babl, gegl and gimp from git and build it:
$ cd babl
$ ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
--enable-introspection=no ; make ; make install
$ cd gegl
$ ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
--enable-introspection=no --disable-docs; make ; make install
$ cd gimp
$ ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --without-dbus --without-gudev
--without-linux-input --without-xmc --disable-python
--host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --without-libjpeg; make ; make install
I had problems with a -pthreads flag (which breaks mingw), it
seems my system was polluted and I had a autotools file somewhere
including it, I couldn't find the file. so my brute force solution
was to have an Ubuntu VM with a clean system :/
I really don't recommend you compiling it in Windows (it's
slow and full of bugs). You should do cross-compiling in
Linux.
Hi Victor,
could you please put a finer point on this? Is this for GEGL
only or for GIMP, too? Which tools do you use in Windows?
Mitch regretfully noticed in a bug report lately that there
are no Windows developers for GIMP. Maybe your informations
could help to bring more Windows developers into the project.
