Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp build for Windows

[pavel <pavel pamsoft cz>]

Hello Tobias,

you are right, I should get the latest snapshot and try to fix some
issues. I know the list.

Thanks, Pavel

On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 16:59 +0100, Tobias Jakobs wrote:
> Hello Pavel,
> 
> 
> I'm not a developer, but a quick look into the buglist shows still al
> lott of open Windows bugs:
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced;bug_status=UNCONFIRMED;bug_status=NEW;bug_status=ASSIGNED;bug_status=REOPENED;bug_status=NEEDINFO;product=GIMP;op_sys=Windows
> 
> 
> And i think if you are interested in developing you should try to
> build gimp from git master, too. 
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tobias
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:35 AM, pavel <pavel pamsoft cz> wrote:
>         Hi Gimp team,
>         
>         are you still looking for a Windows developer? Recently I've
>         spent
>         couple of days, or maybe weeks, to compile Gimp for Windows,
>         32bit. In
>         the end I have a working Gimp, version 2.8.2. I have built the
>         whole GNU
>         chain, starting with zlib through gtk+-2.0 and ending with
>         Gimp, using
>         the most recent stable versions of all the necessary packages.
>         Today I
>         quickly went through the list of Windows related bugs and it
>         looks like
>         lots of them have gone.
>         
>         My initial intention was only to have a working build so that
>         I could
>         compile my plugin for Windows. But now, when I invested so
>         much work in
>         it, it would perhaps be good to share the whole work. I can
>         create a new
>         Windows installer using msi and also build 64bit version.
>         
>         Would there be an interest in this? If yes, it would certainly
>         require
>         lots of other discussion of what to include in the final
>         package and
>         what to fix. I saw for example a request for the LANG
>         environment
>         variable. I can confirm that this does not work anymore in the
>         2.8.2
>         version, but should be quite easy to add it.
>         
>         So I am waiting for your thoughts and ideas.
>         
>         Thanks, Pavel
>         
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