Re: [Gimp-developer] Windows 8.1

[Jernej Simončič <jernej ena si>]

On 12. april 2015, 9:14:59, Mukund Sivaraman wrote:

> GIMP plug-ins are regular programs not DLLs, and they are executed by
> GIMP. You can check the paths to these in the pluginrc that is typically
> stored in %appdata%\Roaming.

Not only I'm aware of that, but this is the sole reason for the
problems I described. If they were DLLs, we wouldn't have these
problems, since the required libraries would've already been loaded by
GIMP.

> I suspect that this person has not set PATH. For example, the nightly
> builds from darkrefraction.com just extract the tree of files and expect
> a user to run the "run_gimp.bat" batch file (which sets PATH). If one
> were to run gimp-2.9.exe directly in this case, the plug-ins that link
> to DLLs would not find them (e.g., the file format ones that look for
> libpng, libtiff, libjpeg, etc.).

Like I said, if something put an older version of a DLL GIMP's plugins
use to System32, PATH won't matter, as it's only checked after
System32.

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