(Cc:ing to the gimp-developer list.) mi315810@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > I wanted to add a feature to Windows Version of gimp but I don't > know how to get started developing for windows. It seems that the > dev site is mainly for the linux person. Or at least the > directions. Most of the current developers use some form of Unix (not just Linux AFAIK). Those that build GIMP on Windows either use the same tools as on Unix (i.e. the GNU auto tools, make, libtool, gcc), or use Microsoft's compiler (cl) and nmake. (I don't really count myself as a GIMP developer currently, as I haven't done any devlopment on the actual GIMP code in a long time. But I do build GIMP from source code now and then. I use the Unix-style tools.) Check out http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/HowToCompileGimp_2fMicrosoftWindows . > I just wanted to add an SDI type view of GIMP, that way when you don't have all > the floaty windows. That is a rather large undertaking... Good luck. It might require support in GTK+ to be cleanly implementable. For your changes to have a chance of eventually being accepted into the official sources, you should keep your changes minimally obtrusive and follow the same coding style as the existing code. You also should be keeping your source code up-to-date with the code in the CVS repository. There probably already is some enhancement request in bugzilla.gnome.org for a SDI (or MDI?) type GIMP UI, but I can't find it right now. > (With any luck, it's probably already a feature and I just have to > click a checkbox) Nope. --tml
