Hans Breuer wrote: > At 15:32 12.12.03 +0100, Michael Schumacher wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> "Adam D. Moss" <adam@xxxxxxxx> writes: > >> > >> > Out of interest, what's wrong with mingw's toolchain? I > >> > never have tried (and never will!) to build GIMP with it, but > >> > it generally copes adequately with the mildly-unix-centric > >> > codebases I throw at it. > >> > >> I might be wrong since I don't compile on Win32, so perhaps I'm > >> confusing things here. But as far as I can remember the mingw compiler > >> needs it's own set of makefiles. There used to be such makefiles in > >> the GIMP tree but after being unmaintained for a looong time, they > >> have finally been removed. > > > >Sven, stop spreading FUD ;) > >Cygwin and MinGW are the tools of choice on Win32 for compiling GIMP. > > > >There were separate makefiles for Microsofts Visual C, but building with > ^^^^ [are, FUD again ?] Maybe I confused the removal of the outdated makefile.mingw with the makefile.msc, or I confused this sentence when rephrasing my mail. > >Cygwin's or MinGW's tools (make, gcc, ld, libtool, ...) isn't supposed to > be > >different from building with the same tools on Unix systems. There may be > >limitations or bugs, but everything else is the same. > > > AFAIK this is not completely true. Reagrding MinGW you either need > the handwritten makefile.mingw - which were in The Gimp tree until > rotten too much - or a capable shell environment (either MSys or > Cygwin should do). > Note: I'm trying to build The Gimp (including it's dependencies) > on windoze the '*nix style' from time to time, but never managed > to get so far as I do with the M$ tool chain. Well, as both packages are available from the same site, I think no one will try to use the MinGW package alone. BTW, http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/HowToCompileGimp/MicrosoftWindows The Cygwin user didn't have any problems at all after the dependecies were installed. > [Sure this is in no way representive cause I have a very strong > aversion against 'portable shell scripts' and M4, aka. auto* tools > - especially if they stop to work as advertised, or if the configure > step takes longer than the actual package compile ;-] So this makes you prefer software from a big & evil company - strange logic ;) Michael -- The GIMP (deutsch): http://www.gimp.de +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ Neu: Preissenkung für MMS und FreeMMS! http://www.gmx.net
