@Gerard
I will not say that impossible but i may assure last gimp# was only for Unix and everybody fail to compile for windows

I may only suppose something messy happened on sourceforge i strongly suggest to contact on gimp IRC or by mail prokoudine (link for mail on the button of sourceforge page ) or with a mail with title containing "gimp# and prokoudine" to the gimpuser mail list

So he may check if some havoc happened to the file hosted on sourceforge and anyway will help to solve installing problem

Better always ask and report to who know better and is in charge, he is not the gimp# developer but he is the mantainer

Sorry you guys are having trouble installing it.I should have mentioned you may need Mono installed for Linux but i wasn't sure.I did install Mono and Microsoft Dot Net Framework.I think Mono is a replacement for Framework not sure though.

I was too hasty in my conclusion.
I am going to try again because I find this intriguing.
I did a little reading on C# and .NET.
The plugins are all started with
I already had mono installed because I tried "moonlight" an open source equivalent of "silverlight".
C# is also called C-sharp which explains all the ~sharp stuff that needed to be installed.

My distro (Gentoo) is so well equipped to install this kind of programs.
Never knew it would be possible to use Windows software on Linux outside of Wine.
Gerard.

I'm not sure, even after reading the documentation, how it works (using mono to possibly use Windows software). When trying to compile gimpsharp it specifically needed a version of mono higher than 2.8, (my system was using 2.4.4) but when I tried to upgrade to 2.10.1, all hell broke loose with errors. I even followed the correct removal of mono 2.4.4. before installing, etc. Some things are just not in my knowledge base to make improvisations for. This being one of them.

@mahvin,
In configure.in I find mono =>2.8.
So it might be something else.
Gerard.

there is no windows software in Gimp#
On windows the previous versions ( if i remember well )were using NETframework , on linux Mono,.
..but i will not consider Mono a windows software even if could be used also as replacement for NETframework

And in case of problem to install the best seems ask/report to prokoudine that often monitor the gimp mailing list

I downloaded and installed Mono for windows in case it was needed.Apparently it was not.
All i really needed was the Framework.Which i had installed with Paint Dot Net already.

Mono is needed for the linux version that is more recent (both are a bit old but nobody was able to compile the newer version on Win )

@Gerard
It is possible that the plugin has as dependency gimp 2.4 (not just gimp)
On windows may be tricked (just temporary renaming a couple of gimp file) not sure for linux maybe something analogue must be done )

@ROD @Oregonian

I think will be better split the topic, moving the last messages in a new topic with a title as
" How to Install Gimp Sharp"

Only the bin/gimp-2.6 binary file has to be renamed to gimp-2.4 - then of course re-named back to gimp-2.6 after you install Gimp Sharp.

The quote above is from the README in the gimp-sharp files.

It compiles and installs fine on my box and it shows up in Filters but it does nothing!
Gerard.

All the filters have a small icon next to them - do any of them work?
They install all over the place so you may have to look.

No Rod,
Haven't seen any icons.
I noticed there are quite a lot of .png files in the source.

I did this on my regular install.
I read through the configure file and I'm going to install a lot of progs mentioned.
But not in my regular install.
I have an experimental one for that.
Maybe tomorrow I'll know if I can get it to work.
Gerard.

Here is what the small icons look like when Gimp Sharp is installed and working correctly.



But there are more like i said they are installed all over.

Well I give up.
Installed 6 extra packages which pulled in 10 more as dependencies.
In Gentoo all packages are compiled from source on your system.
When compilation was successful the resulting binaries are installed in the designated folder(s).
One package couldn't be installed because of "file collision".
Fsharp and scala produce files with exactly the same name to go in the same folder.
By eliminating the packages one by one I could finally compile gimp-sharp.
By then only "boo" was left.
I now see the icons Rod mentioned but that's all,it still doesn't work.
Googling about mono and .NET programs:Most of it is riddled with bugs.
Gerard.