Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-05 Thread lode leroy
When installing Python from Python-2.4.1.msi, the headers are not in C:/Python24/include/python24 but in C:/Python24/include. This fixes that problem. --- pythondev.m4.orig 2005-10-05 17:29:40.015625000 -0700 +++ pythondev.m42005-10-05 17:27:01.609375000 -0700 @@ -10,9 +10,9 @@

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-04 Thread lode leroy
From: Tor Lillqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lode leroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4 Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 01:48:10 +0300 lode leroy writes: In fact, what happens is that when linking with ZLIB.DLL, the exe expects ZLIB-1

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-04 Thread Tor Lillqvist
lode leroy writes: The thing is that for compiling gimp from cvs, you need quite some expertise in the autotools, libtool, aclocal, pkg-config etc to fix those not-100%-working-together- distributed binaries... Would it be feasible to create a big zip-file that contains everything for

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-04 Thread Lance Dockins
Tor Lillqvist wrote: It would be possible, but wouldn't such a zipfile just create open up the possibility for even more confusion when there would then be yet another distribution of these libs? Tor, You're right. Alternative packages always open up the possibility for more confusion

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-04 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: lode leroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Tor Lillqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lode leroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4 Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 01:48:10 +0300 lode leroy writes: In fact, what happens is that when

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-04 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday, October 3, 2005, 16:49:59, lode leroy wrote: So the missing dll's in question are a build-environment issue, and not a gimp-compilation issue... Just make sure you use the correct import libraries. It is also possible to create them yourself, from the

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-04 Thread Carol Spears
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:04:42AM -0500, Lance Dockins wrote: I should also clarify that I have considered switching to Linux to make this easier, but I just don't have the time, money, and hardware to do so without destroying the Win32 environment I'm required to use in the professional

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-04 Thread jernej
On Tuesday, October 4, 2005, 18:11:36, Michael Schumacher wrote: It is also possible to create them yourself, from the DLL files. The MinGW docs contain a section about this (using pexports and dlltool, IIRC). Didn't you write instructions for this in the wiki?

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-04 Thread Lance Dockins
this is so interesting. Win32 has succeeded in making linux expensive. you are asking that the Win32 environment not work the way it was designed to work -- at least i think this is what you are saying. i am very impressed that it was able to make free software expensive, this is a simply

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-04 Thread Carol Spears
yeah, i read something that seemed as if it was too expensive to use free software and a sane build environment. i have been wrong before. carol ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-04 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Lance Dockins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I should also clarify that I have considered switching to Linux to make this easier, but I just don't have the time, money, and hardware to do so without destroying the Win32 environment I'm required to use in the professional world. My guess is

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-04 Thread Hal V. Engel
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 09:58 am, Carol Spears wrote: On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:04:42AM -0500, Lance Dockins wrote: I should also clarify that I have considered switching to Linux to make this easier, but I just don't have the time, money, and hardware to do so without destroying the

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4]

2005-10-04 Thread Bill Kendrick
Lance wrote: * A spare hard drive * A reliable partition manager (instead of a drive) * Perhaps an alternate computer entirely Just to be a weenie, I'll mention live CDs like Knoppix. Or even USB-bootable systems. (I got to play with one of those this past weekend at a friend's workplace.

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-04 Thread Lance Dockins
Hal V. Engel wrote: If all you need is enough of a Linux installation to get GIMP to build and to test GIMP then the amount of diskspace needed to do this is fairly small and you can free up a partition on your existing hard drive(s) to do this. Good point. I thought of doing this myself,

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-04 Thread Hal V. Engel
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 02:28 pm, Lance Dockins wrote: Hal V. Engel wrote: If all you need is enough of a Linux installation to get GIMP to build and to test GIMP then the amount of diskspace needed to do this is fairly small and you can free up a partition on your existing hard

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-04 Thread michael chang
On 10/4/05, Lance Dockins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is so interesting. Win32 has succeeded in making linux expensive. you are asking that the Win32 environment not work the way it was designed to work -- at least i think this is what you are saying. i am very impressed that it

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-04 Thread michael chang
On 10/4/05, Tor Lillqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lode leroy writes: The thing is that for compiling gimp from cvs, you need quite some expertise in the autotools, libtool, aclocal, pkg-config etc to fix those not-100%-working-together- distributed binaries... Would it be feasible

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4]

2005-10-04 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:08:45PM -0400, michael chang wrote: Just to note, live systems on optical media won't preserve data between reboots without storing it somewhere, e.g. on a file or partition (Knoppix does this with some scripts somewhere IIRC). I don't know about USB systems. Well,

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-04 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 01:50, Lance Dockins wrote:     * Time     * A spare hard drive     * A reliable partition manager (instead of a drive)     * Perhaps an alternate computer entirely     * Potential other hardware for those components that     Linux drivers don't function well

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-04 Thread Leon Brooks
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 16:37, lode leroy wrote: Would it be feasible to create a big zip-file that contains everything for gimp for download? If you call it GIMP-toaster, many people will instantly recognise its purpose. Cheers; Leon -- http://cyberknights.com.au/ Modern tools;

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-04 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 03:11, Hal V. Engel wrote: Windows and Linux can live on the same machine with no problems.  So you do not have to destroy the Wind32 environment.  Many of the folks on this list, myself included,  have both Linux and Windows running on the machines they use on a

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-03 Thread jernej
On Monday, October 3, 2005, 16:49:59, lode leroy wrote: So the missing dll's in question are a build-environment issue, and not a gimp-compilation issue... Just make sure you use the correct import libraries. -- Jernej Simoncic http://deepthought.ena.si/ You never catch on until after

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-10-03 Thread Tor Lillqvist
lode leroy writes: In fact, what happens is that when linking with ZLIB.DLL, the exe expects ZLIB-1.DLL instead of ZLIB1.DLL. (or vice-versa). The official zlib dll is called zlib1.dll. Any other name means it is not official. Official as in directly from real maintainer of zlib. As the

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Lance Dockins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was asking more generic questions because I was looking for more generic answers. I just wanted to know if missing DLL's was a normal scenario in Win32 environments. Since you clearly know that it's not, you've jumped ahead of me to asking

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-29 Thread Manish Singh
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:56:12AM -0500, Lance Dockins wrote: Sven Neumann wrote: And if you ask, please describe your problems in detail. I have left my crystal ball at home today so I really can't figure out what some missing key libraries at the end of the build are. I was asking more

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-28 Thread John Cupitt
On 9/28/05, Lance Dockins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At this point, I'd like a little help or direction about compiling GIMP in a Win32 environment with MinGW, MSys, and ActivePerl. It's not GIMP, but I wrote a HOWTO a couple of days ago for building my gtk+ app under mingw:

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-28 Thread Lance Dockins
Thanks John. This should help tremendously. Just two other questions then... 1) Is there a way to get python to work on Windows AND is it even necessary to build GIMP? 2) Where do I install/unzip the all the auto tools? Should I just unzip them to a location in MinGW and use the export

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-28 Thread John Cupitt
Hi Lance, On 9/28/05, Lance Dockins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Is there a way to get python to work on Windows AND is it even necessary to build GIMP? Yes, I'm sure Python does build on win, but I've not tried. Some gimp plugins use it, so you probably need to spend some time experimenting

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-28 Thread Carol Spears
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:56:12AM -0500, Lance Dockins wrote: What if someone considering the possibility of contributing to GIMP read that post? They probably would think twice at that point for fear of being publicly humiliated for asking a question. Don't get me wrong, I greatly

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-28 Thread Michael Schumacher
Lance Dockins wrote: 1) Is there a way to get python to work on Windows AND is it even necessary to build GIMP? Get it from http://www.python.org It is not neccessary to build GIMP, but neccessary for the PyGimp modules and thius Python support in GIMP. 2) Where do I install/unzip the all

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-28 Thread Nathan Summers
On 9/28/05, Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:56:12AM -0500, Lance Dockins wrote: do not count on the user base being only as you defined it here. if you do not want sarcasm or even honest requests for good development style, please post these questions on

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-28 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Lance Dockins writes: 1) Is there a way to get python to work on Windows Yes. Personally I have so far not really been interested in Python and haven't attempted to build the Python scripting support. But others have it working. AND is it even necessary to build GIMP? No. 2) Where do I

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-28 Thread Michael Schumacher
Nathan Summers wrote: On 9/28/05, Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you do not want sarcasm or even honest requests for good development style, please post these questions on either the gimp user list or the gimp on windows user list. There is no longer a gimp on windows mailing list,

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-28 Thread Tor Lillqvist
There is no longer a gimp on windows mailing list, Well, for a list that doesn't exist it is pretty active... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gimpwin-users/ I guess rockwalrus meant there is no *developer-oriented* Windows-specific GIMP (or GTK+) list. That's true. --tml

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-28 Thread Nathan Summers
On 9/28/05, Michael Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathan Summers wrote: There is no longer a gimp on windows mailing list, Well, for a list that doesn't exist it is pretty active... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gimpwin-users/ That is not the list that no longer exists. :)

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-27 Thread Lance Dockins
I compiled GIMP 2.3.4 from tarball the other day and I've noticed a few things. 1) The last 2 times I've compiled GIMP, I've found my installation missing some key libraries at the end of the build. Is this normal? (Missing libraries differed each time) To fix it I pulled libraries from

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-27 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Lance Dockins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I compiled GIMP 2.3.4 from tarball the other day and I've noticed a few things. 1) The last 2 times I've compiled GIMP, I've found my installation missing some key libraries at the end of the build. Is this normal? (Missing libraries

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's easier on everybody if you just modify the splash screen to have a message to the effect of "PRERELEASE VERSION INTENDED FOR DEVELOPMENT TESTING ONLY" rather than forcing people to one day have to do extra work because of someone's arbitrary timeout policy. The message could even tell where

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-25 Thread Michael Schumacher
michael chang wrote: On 9/23/05, Michael Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: michael chang wrote: The problem is that when the timeout dies, then should be a new version; if there isn't one, it's kinda silly to have to re-install the same version to extend the timeout. Reinstalling the

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Axel Wernicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about writing it with large red letters on the splash screen - it can't be skipped and is displayed long enough to get the message through :) Of course the splash screen can be skipped. AFAIK many distributons configure GIMP to not show a

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-25 Thread michael chang
On 9/25/05, Michael Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: michael chang wrote: On 9/23/05, Michael Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: michael chang wrote: The problem is that when the timeout dies, then should be a new version; if there isn't one, it's kinda silly to have to re-install

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Michael Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Reinstalling the same version wouldn't help, I'm talking about a hard timeout there - created when the release tarball is made, for example, and set to e.g. 60 or 90 days into the future. What's all this fuss? There is absolutely no reason why

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-24 Thread Michael Schumacher
Axel Wernicke wrote: Am 23.09.2005 um 23:43 schrieb Michael Schumacher: Problem: how to keep each of the places distributing GIMP (some net magazines, other random websites, users) from mistaking it as a new stable release. How about writing it with large red letters on the splash screen

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-24 Thread michael chang
On 9/23/05, Michael Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: michael chang wrote: Solution: Linux/POSIX emulation layer. Cygwin is usually used. MinGW/MSYS is also workable, IIRC. I've never compiled GIMP on either, though. For GIMP, I'd say that MinGW is preferred - not that there shouldn't

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-23 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Lance Dockins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been testing GIMP 2.3.3 and I noticed that some of the changes of late have indicated we're nearing a 2.3.4 release. Does anyone know what timeframe we're looking at for the 2.3.4 release? Whenever I get around to do it, which will hopefully

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-23 Thread Lance Dockins
Actually... I was trying to figure out what the best way to do that would be... mostly because I run GIMP in a Win32 environment, so compiling GIMP isn't quite as straightforward as it is in Linux. If I could figure out how to compile from CVS on Win32, I definitely would. Of course, I'm

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-23 Thread michael chang
On 9/23/05, Lance Dockins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually... I was trying to figure out what the best way to do that would be... mostly because I run GIMP in a Win32 environment, so compiling GIMP isn't quite as straightforward as it is in Linux. If I Solution: Linux/POSIX emulation layer.

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-23 Thread pmagnoli
Hi, you can safely follow the instructions at http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/HowToCompileGimp/MicrosoftWindows you just need to modify the supplied CompileGimp.sh updating the lines listing GTK_PACKAGES and MINGW_PACKAGES as there are more recent versions avaliable, mine are: # Names of packages and

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-23 Thread Lance Dockins
Ahhh... Thanks to all who've responded... I guess I'm getting lost at what packages to download from CVS and in what directories to place them... At present, I've already used Msys to compile GIMP 2.3.3 from a tarball. Since I've never tried compiling from CVS, I wasn't sure IF I would need

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-23 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Lance Dockins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually... I was trying to figure out what the best way to do that would be... mostly because I run GIMP in a Win32 environment, so compiling GIMP isn't quite as straightforward as it is in Linux. If I could figure out how to compile from CVS on

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.3.4

2005-09-23 Thread Michael Schumacher
michael chang wrote: Solution: Linux/POSIX emulation layer. Cygwin is usually used. MinGW/MSYS is also workable, IIRC. I've never compiled GIMP on either, though. For GIMP, I'd say that MinGW is preferred - not that there shouldn't any problems with Cygwin, but anyone trying this might