The GIMP: The GNU Image Manipulation Program: The Hadjaha Release
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GIMP 1.2.3 Cygwin Port
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There is already a native Win32 port of GIMP, see 
http://www.gimp.org/win32/ for more information. But someone, like me, 
would rather have a *native* Cygwin port version, use X-Window system. 
Of cource, it's easy to get, since native Win32 port works fine.

As part of project Cygnome (http://cygnome.sourceforge.net/), you can
download pre-built binary packages form 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=67909
And I put the letter patch there, you can build from GIMP source yourself.


Building GIMP From Source On Cygwin
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1. First you must get glib, gtk+ to work on your cygwin, get the source from
http://www.gtk.org/ , and cygwin patches from http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steven.obrien2/ 
(contributed and maintained by Steven O'Brian).
Or, download glib, gtk+ binary packages directly from the Cygwin GNOME project 
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/cygnome), you can find more interesting GNOME
binary packages in cygnome-libs-1.4 (include glib, gtk+).

2. Unpack the GIMP source, patch...

3. The build steps i have wrote into a file cygbuild.sh, run cygbuild.sh or 

 $ CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall" ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome\
 			 --enable-shared=yes --enable-static=no\
 			 --disable-perl
 Now disable perl plugin, with little patched you can compile successfully, but running
 GIMP hangs when try to load perl plugin script.

 $ mv libtool libtool.old
 $ cp /usr/autotool/devel/bin/libtool .
 Update libtool to build DLL libs, i use the latest libtool.

 $ make
 $ make install 
 If you are luck, you'll get gimp run...


Note: 
I also patch lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h, add some useful MACROs, 
it's needed to compile GIMP.


Have fun!


		 -- Contributed by David Huang (davehzhr@hotmail.com)