Re: [Gimp-developer] any way to compile GIMP-git on windows?

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 8:09 AM, oyster wrote:
> Hi, all
> I am a win7 64 bits user. So I installed
> Mingw64(http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64), which can yield
> both 32 and 64 bits applications for windows.
>
> I can compile gimp-2.8.14 32bit without problem. But when I try to
> compile the GIMP source from git, the configure says "equested
> 'harfbuzz >= 0.9.19' but version of harfbuzz is 0.9.16"
>
> Then I try to compile
> harfbuzz(http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz/) from the git
> source. But the required colm (http://www.colm.net/open-source/colm/)
> can't be compiled successful with mingw64
> [quote]
>  $ ./configure
>  $ make -j8 ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1
>  make[2]: *** No rule to make target `bootstrap1', needed by `parse2.c'.  Stop.
>  [/quote]
>
> Is there any hit to compile GIMP-git (or harfbuzz) on windows  for windows?

If you are user, not developer, may I interest you in trying our
nightly builds? :)

http://nightly.darkrefraction.com/gimp/

Alex