To get an educated opinion about the other way to build The GIMP on win32 I've tried an succeeded to build the dependencies from cvs following Owen's description from http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2005-January/msg00091.html But The GIMP's build fails without giving me any clu how to fix it. Can anybody tell me what's going wrong? Thanks, Hans hb@ATHLON ~/gimp $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/gtk --disable-print I am testing that you have the required versions of libtool, autoconf, automake, glib-gettextize and intltoolize. This test is not foolproof, so if anything goes wrong, see the file HACKING for more information... Looks like Win32, you will need libtool 1.5 or newer. checking for libtool >= 1.5 ... yes (version 1.5.8) checking for gtkdocize ... yes checking for autoconf >= 2.54 ... yes (version 2.56) checking for automake >= 1.7 ... yes (version 1.7.1) checking for glib-gettextize >= 2.2.0 ... yes (version 2.7.0) checking for intltool >= 0.31 ... yes (version 0.33) checking for xsltproc ... yes I am going to run ./configure with the following arguments: --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/gtk --disable-print /tmp/am4t5200.1592/traces.m4:1384: /bin/m4: Error matching regular expression "^ *\(.*\) *$" Use of uninitialized value in split at /bin/automake-1.7 line 5077, <GEN0> line 413. automake-1.7: no `Makefile.am' found or specified