Hello Please use gimptool to build the plugin additional information (a whole chapter) about compiling can also be found in the Gimp Users Manual manual.gimp.org. To build a plugin with gimptool simply do gimptool --build plug-in.c . NOTE that this only work with one c source file. Cheers Olof -- Olof Kylander Frozenriver Digital Design http://www.frozenriver.nu Consultant at Sigma nBiT Technical writer and coauthor of GUM (the Gimp User Manual) On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Willem Robert van Hage wrote: > I've been searching for documentation about how to actually > compile a plug in, but all I could find was how to write the code... > I tried compiling it like this, > > gcc -c myplug.c > ld -G -o myplug.o > > but when gimp tries to load it from > my ~/.gimp-1.1 (I use gimp-1.1.8) it gives a warning that the plugin has > crashed. > > I'm pretty sure the problem is the way I compile it, > because it's with all the plugin code I try, not just my hello world > plugin :) > > > if anybody could help out I'd greatly appreciate it. > > Willem > > -- > wrvh@xxxxxxxxx | http://www.xs4all.nl/~wrvh > wrvhage@xxxxxxxxxxx | http://gene.wins.uva.nl/~wrvhage >
