To answer all the questions about my environment, etc. (I tried to post this yesterday, but never saw it, so maybe Juno dropped it or something) Here's what I did: Get and install in this order: from http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html GIMP GTK+ from http://mingw.org/download.shtml MINGW MSYS msysDTK Start Msys and create ~/.profile file with the following contents: export DEVELOPMENT_DIR="$HOME/src" export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvs/gnome' export PATH="$DEVELOPMENT_DIR/bin:$DEVELOPMENT_DIR/lib:$PATH" export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$DEVELOPMENT_DIR/include" export CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I$DEVELOPMENT_DIR/include" export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$DEVELOPMENT_DIR/lib" export ALOCAL_FLAGS="$ALOCAL_FLAGS -I $DEVELOPMENT_DIR/share/alocal" echo Ready to build! Make a folder called ~/src for development and unzip into the ~/src folder so that the contents fall into the same bin, etc, include, share, contrib, lib,... folders: from http://mingw.org/download.shtml msys-libtool-1.5.tar.bz2 msys-automake-1.8.2.tar.bz2 from http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html glib-2.4.7.zip glib-dev-2.4.7.zip pkgconfig-0.15.zip [GNU libiconv] libiconv-1.9.1.bin.woe32.zip gettext-runtime-0.13.1.zip gtk+-2.4.13.zip gtk+-dev-2.4.13.zip pango-1.4.1.zip pango-dev-1.4.1.zip atk-1.6.0.zip atk-dev-1.6.0.zip from http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html [here] ftp://ftp.arnes.si/software/gimp-win/gimp-dev-2.0.1-20040415.zip from ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/ libxslt-1.1.12.win32.zip libxml2-2.6.15.win32.zip Do the following commands (There is no cvs password) cd src cvs login <nul cvs checkout gimp cd gimp ./autogen.sh Problem resolutions: GIMP's autogen.sh generates 2 messages and stops unless the corresponding tools are provided checking for intltool >= 0.17 ... You must have intltool installed to compile The GIMP. Get the latest version from ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/intltool/ checking for intltool < 0.28 or > 0.31 ... not found checking for xsltproc ... You must have xsltproc installed to compile The GIMP. Get the latest version from ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libxslt/ Trying to make xsltproc from the latest sources at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libxslt/libxslt-1.1.12.win32.zip results in the following error message: checking for libxml libraries >= 2.6.15... configure: error: Could not find libxml2 anywhere, check ftp://xmlsoft.org/. The xmlsoft.org site directs you to Igor Zlatkovic's page at http://www.zlatkovic.com/libxml.en.html which in turn directs you to ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/ where you can get libxslt-1.1.12.win32.zip Attempting to run xsltproc.exe, reveals that it needs dll libxml2.dll Get it from the same place. Trying to make intltool from the latest sources at results in the following error message: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool This seems to be available at http://search.cpan.org/src/COOPERCL/XML-Parser-2.31/Parser.pm but that seems to require another package: http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/ Instead, get and build version 1.5 of intltool. Trying to run ./autogen.sh results in the following message checking for automake >= 1.6 ... expr: syntax error Too old (found version 1.8.3)! Instead, maybe expr needs to be updated to version __? $ automake --version Can't locate Automake/Struct.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/share/automake-1.8 /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/msys /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/msys /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /home/ted/src/bin/automake line 47. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/ted/src/bin/automake line 47. Maybe I need to install something called Struct to perl? I'm keeping a careful record so I can simplify the instructions as much as possible and post them for others to use. I hope that after I finish this, someone should be able to walk up to a new Windows machine, and get things working right away without any surprises. _-T ________________________________________________________________ Juno Platinum $9.95. Juno SpeedBand $14.95. Sign up for Juno Today at http://www.juno.com! Look for special offers at Best Buy stores.
