[Gimp-developer] GIMP depends on libcurl, but this is not documented

2007-11-12 Thread Jesper de Jong
Hello everybody,

I'm a developer and I'm interested in contributing to GIMP. Developing
software is my full-time job, mainly programming enterprise Java software.

To get started with GIMP, I downloaded the source for version 2.4.1 and I'm
trying to compile it on my Ubuntu 7.10 (32-bit) machine. I installed a bunch
of libraries that are mentioned in the file INSTALL and ran ./configure,
which seemed to go without errors.

However, when I ran make, it would stop soon with a confusing error message.
After looking through configure.log I noticed that it was looking for
libcurl development files, which were not on my system. So I downloaded and
installed libcurl (+ dev headers) and now it's busy compiling.

Is libcurl indeed required to compile GIMP?
If so, can you please add a note to INSTALL that says you also need libcurl?

Thanks, I'm looking forward to contributing to GIMP.

Jesper de Jong
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Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP depends on libcurl, but this is not documented

2007-11-12 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi,

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 20:49 +0100, Jesper de Jong wrote:

 Is libcurl indeed required to compile GIMP? 

No, you don't need libcurl to compile GIMP.

There is one plug-in, which is completely optional, and it uses either
gnome-vfs, libcurl or wget. For a Linux system it is recommended to use
gnome-vfs when building the URI plug-in.


Sven


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Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP depends on libcurl, but this is not documented

2007-11-12 Thread Martin Nordholts
Jesper de Jong wrote:
 Hello everybody,
 
 I'm a developer and I'm interested in contributing to GIMP. Developing
 software is my full-time job, mainly programming enterprise Java software.
 
 Thanks, I'm looking forward to contributing to GIMP.
 
 Jesper de Jong
 

Hi Jesper

Great news! Your contributions will be very appreciated, I'm sure.

To get started with the GIMP source code you should first read up on
GObject [1], the object framework GIMP is based on. This library is used
for OO-ness in GIMP (and great deal of other GNOME projects too for that
matter). Feel free to hang around in #gimp on irc.gimp.org if you have
any questions regarding the code or related stuff.

Regards,
Martin Nordholts
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Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP depends on libcurl, but this is not documented

2007-11-12 Thread Martin Nordholts
 
 Hi Jesper
 
 Great news! Your contributions will be very appreciated, I'm sure.
 
 To get started with the GIMP source code you should first read up on
 GObject [1], the object framework GIMP is based on. This library is used
 for OO-ness in GIMP (and great deal of other GNOME projects too for that
 matter). Feel free to hang around in #gimp on irc.gimp.org if you have
 any questions regarding the code or related stuff.

Forgot the link, here you go...

[1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/unstable/index.html

- Martin
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