On Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 17:52:45, Alessandro Francesconi wrote: > So, I always try to use Visual Studio 2008 for convenience Unfortunately, this probably won't be easy to get to work with Visual Studio - both GIMP and GTK+ are compiled the mingw toolchain on Windows, and while there are some Visual Studio projects in the source, they're not maintained as far as I know. Setting up an environment to compile GIMP on Windows isn't easy either, although once you have it set up, it'll just work. In my experience it's both easier and faster to actually cross-compile GIMP from Linux, than to bother with the MSys or Cygwin environments on Windows (if you decide to compile on Windows, avoid cygwin, and use MSys instead). When compiling GIMP (or it's plug-ins), you'll want to compile as little as possible yourself - in my current stable installers, I only compile GIMP, gegl and babl myself, while the rest comes either from <http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/> or from the package's website. For the unstable/experimental installers I only compile GIMP - everything else is from SuSE's repository at <http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/SLE_11/noarch/> The easiest way to set up environment for compiling GIMP's plug-ins is to download the GTK+ bundle from <http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.22/gtk+-bundle_2.22.0-20101016_win32.zip> and import libraries for GIMP, babl and gegl from <http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20GTK%2B%20(stable%20release)/GIMP%202.6.4%20%2B%20GTK%2B%202.14.6/gimp-dev-2.6.4.zip/download> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20GTK%2B%20(stable%20release)/GIMP%202.6.4%20%2B%20GTK%2B%202.14.6/gegl-2847-babl-359-dev.zip/download> There are some other dependencies if you wish to compile GIMP itself, but I think this should suffice for plug-in development. Extract all files to the same prefix, keeping the directory structure. If you're cross-compiling you'll have to fix the prefix path in all .pc files in lib/pkgconfig/ (the Windows version of pkg-config should automatically select the prefix for you). This is basically it, now you just need to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to point to <prefix>/lib/pkgconfig and PATH to include <prefix>/bin, and you should be ready to go. -- < Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< http://eternallybored.org/ > It's better to retire too soon than too late. -- Mosher's Law _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
