[Gimp-user] Misleading reply to a FAQ for installing a GIMP2.6 Windows 7-32 executable

[urbite <forums gimpusers com>]

> On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:09:34 +0000, Rene Grognard wrote:

> > I simply cannot understand why GIMP does not look first  into its own version in ProgramFiles\GIMP-2.0\bin 
> > which of course it finds once the Windows version is renamed.

> Because the DLL search path in Windows is roughly "executable directory,
> Windows\System32, Windows, %PATH%". Unfortunately, GIMP's plug-ins are all
> individual executables, but they don't reside in the same directory as
> gimp.exe, and as such look for DLLs in the System32 directory before
> looking in GIMP's install dir.

The simple hack/solution is to copy intl.dll from the bin folder to the plug-ins folder. For my installation, 
here are the two paths.

Copy from: C:\Program Files (x86)\GIMP-2.0\bin\intl.dll
Copy to:  C:\Program Files (x86)\GIMP-2.0\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\intl.dll

I did this and didn't get the startup errors I was seeing before

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