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For more information about the port or GLib, GTk+ and the GIMP to
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native Windows, and pre-built binary packages, see
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http://www.iki.fi/tml/gimp/win32/ or
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http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/
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To build the GIMP on Win32, you can use either Microsoft Visual C++ or
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gcc. The gcc to use should be for a mingw configuration (producing
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executables that don't depend on the cygwin dll). For more information
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about the preparation necessary for building with gcc, what version
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you want and where to get it, etc, read README.win32 in GLib 1.3 (or
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later). (GLib 1.3 is the developer version and thus isn't distributed
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per se, but available from CVS, and especially for Windows in zipfiles
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from the web pages mentioned above.)
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The GIMP wants to be built with the GNU "intl" library for
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internationalisation (i18n). Get the version ported to Win32 from the
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web site mentioned above. We build the "intl" library to a DLL called
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gnu-intl.dll to reduce name clash risks. If you don't want any i18n
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stuff, undefine ENABLE_NLS in the config.h.win32 file, and remove
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references to the gnu-intl library from the makefiles.
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Note that while the GNU gettext package is under the GPL (GNU General
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Public License), the "intl" library part as distributed with GNU libc
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is under the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License, a.k.a. GNU
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Library General Public License). We want the LGPL-licensed version of
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the intl library, even if they are the same, more or less. It doesn't
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matter for the GIMP which itself is licensed under the GPL, but it
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does matter for GTk+, which is licensed under the LGPL.
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First, build in the libgimp directory, then in app, plug-ins, and
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finally in modules. Check the makefile.msc or makefile.cygwin files in
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said directories.
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The current build setup for Windows is a mess, with complex
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hand-maintained makefiles. I know. Adding parallel makefiles for gcc
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didn't make it any cleaner. On the other hand, I don't think using the
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Unix style configuration mechanism to generate mingw EXEs and DLLs is
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quite feasible, either. I would love to be proved wrong.
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--Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>
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