On 10 Jan 2003, at 12:37, Joakim wrote: > I have tried to find gimp-perl for win32 but I can't find it. > The Gimp-Perl FAQ says that there is no port of gimp-perl for win32. > Is the FAQ not updated or is it really true that their is no port? In > the latter case, is anybody trying to do a port?
No, there is no port, and as far as I know, nobody's trying to port it. I thought there had been discussion about this on the developer list, but I am not sure I found it: On 22 Dec 2001, at 1:47, Fabian Frédérick wrote: > About Perl-Gimp for Windows, I've done a skeleton of that stuff.... > Problem is it doesn't work with structs yet (Perl blessing doesn't > work at all). On 19 Apr 2002, at 19:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [Scheme] does, however, run under windows, unlike gimp-perl, > which should be very easy to port without Gtk. Porting Gtk > should be easy too, if the destination is named cygwin. > > Unfortunately, the developers who do the windows port don't use > the same config mechanisms as under unix/cygwin, and Gtk is > proven to be hard to port to that environment. On 24 Apr 2002, at 18:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:34:19PM +0300, Tor > Lillqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > and Gtk is proven to be hard to port to that environment. > > ... but I still fear that porting gimp-perl might be quite > > a task. > > Why? I apart from trivial changes (gimp-perl has to parse > the output of gimptool -n --install-admin-bin because > gimptool doesn't have an option to output the pluginpath > and can't be edited under windows), it compiled out of the > box five minutes ago under windows 2000 using cygwin > and the binaries from www.gimp.org/win32 (which, as I > read it, are not really compatible with my environment > anyways). > > I think the remaining problems are highly trivial (e.g. > possible reliance on / instead of \, which mostly isn't a > problem under windows anyways, socket functions etc.) > > It's just that this has to do somebody who knows windows > better then me (I lack the time & compiler to compile gimp > &c for windows just to test it). Perhaps you could try and port it yourself, or sponsor somebody who can. Or you could file an enhancement request at <http://bugzilla.gnome.org>. Good luck, -- branko collin [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
