I already tried to answer this from Berlin, but apparently CCC's SMTP server didn't like me. Apologies to gimp-developers who couldn't care less for the Windows version ;-) Hans Breuer writes: > Attached a patch to compile Gimp on Win32 with M$VC again. > Could anyone with CVS access apply it, please? Yes, I will, to the extent it doesn't interfer with other stuff. > * */makefile.msc: > - get the definition of GLIB, GTK etc. out of a single file > instead of copy and pasting between all makefiles. This is > particular usefull while the CVS version on Win32 is quite > broken. This is in the progress of being taken care of on the gcc side by using the CVS module "build" which has a makefile snippet in "build/win32/make.mingw" to be included in other makefiles when building for mingw with gcc. Your file belongs there. Actually, I wouldn't mind if somebody else (you) would take over the maintenance of the MSVC build stuff completely. It is hard enough to keep the gcc/mingw makefiles up-to-date... (Well, not hard, but tedious. Yes, I know I really should look closer into getting the latest-and-greatest auto*, configure and libtool stuff working also for gcc builds on Win32. It is not necessarily that hard. After my vacation...) As for the CVS version of GTk+, it is indeed currently very much broken on Win32. (Especially after the recent merge of the Pango stuff. I won't be able to make publicly available any work I'll do on it until July, as I am leaving for vacation without net access tomorrow. I will take my laptop and hack on stuff...) For a working GTk+ on Windows, use the CVS sources as they were before the merge of the no-flicker branch. (Probably easiest to download the gtk+-src zipfile from the web page.) > * plug-ins/makefile.msc: > Change all Plug-Ins to console build - no known drawbacks, > main benefit: reusage of Gimp's console. Hmm, but isn't gimp.exe's console window destroyed as soon as it has started? I don't remember the reason why gimp.exe was changed to be a console application in the first place. In fact, I have been considering changing it back to a windowing application to get rid of the annoying flashing console window at start. --tml
