Re: [Gimp-user] How to compile a vala GIMP plugin on Windows pc?

[Kevin Cozens <kevin ve3syb ca>]

On 2021-01-03 3:36 p.m., Ruben Safir wrote:
[snip]
> Save yourself a life time of trouble and switch ovr the a GNU system now
[snip]
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 09:50:54PM -0800, Pen Guin via gimp-user-list wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have downloaded GIMP 2.99.4 on my Windows 8 pc.
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> > I want to compile the goat-exercise vala plugin shipped with GIMP.

If you can't or don't want to install an MS supplied toolchain I would 
suggest looking in to installing MSYS and MinGW in order to get an 
environment set up so code can be compiled. There are additional library 
dependencies that will also need to be installed. It is isn't going to be 
simple as there are a number of steps involved but I don't think it is that 
bad overall. I have been able to set up an build environment on one of my 
Windows based machines. I don't know how easily a non-programmer would be 
able to get everything place to build GIMP and some of its dependencies.

IIRC, I documented the process I went through to set up MSYS/MinGW for 
building code but that was long before the multiple programming language 
support now required to build GIMP. I'll look for my old notes in case it 
might help.

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