Lyle PSPI seems to map correctly and work fine in the new version.
Although i did have to re enter my serial number for some commercial plugins.But it works.



GrowCut (GML Matting)


List of the plugins i have gotten to work


You will have to re add the entry point for Impressionist for it to work also.

Rod, you have sure put a lot of work into this compiling stuff. It is amazing what you are doing. KUDO's

Gimp-2.7.5 is now in the official Gentoo repo albeit "masked".
I replaced 2.6.12 with it in my regular install.
No need to switch to a separate partition any more.
Gerard.

Edit: tiff/tif works ok.

For whatever reason, I had to redo the Impressionist thing again recently (so I'm well aware of this trick thanks to RobA). Again, I just wish someone would port this plugin for 64-bit GIMP but it doesn't look like that will happen, so, I'll probably install 32-bit GIMP when 2.8 gets released (way too many plugins that I'm unwilling to be without). I do hope the developers decide to at least package Python with this new release, but, I'm not holding my breath. lol

What would be cool is if the developers gives the option to install both 32-bit and 64-bit versions simultaneously like PS does by default so that old plugins can still be used if needed, but, folk can run 64-bit most of the time. Anyway, thanks for the answer Rod.

I have a big problem about the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit when it applies to installing apps.

I have Windows 7-64 bit but I always download software that says 32 bit. I understand you can use either one. BUT you can't install 64 bit apps into a 32 bit pc.
I also have a separate hard drive with Linux Fedora 16 which I always use now. I just install from Fedora repo.

Has anyone had a problem doing this?

I know very little about Windows,so can't answer that.
Most Linux distro's use "multilib" when a 64 bit version is installed.
This means the system has both 32 and 64 bit libraries.
Linux libraries are comparable to Windows "dll's".
So I don't think you' ll have any problem with 32 bit plugins.
Scripts (with .scm extension) are written in tiny-scheme which is an "interpreted" language.
Gimp comes with the tiny-scheme interpreter so no problem there.
Plugins are either written in python (also an interpreted language) or compiled from different languages like C.
The python interpreter is installed by default in Linux.
I know from experience that in a multilib Linux environment pre-compiled 32 bit plugins run ok.
Hope this answers your questions re 32 bit apps in 64 bit Linux.

Gimp 2.7.5 needs newer versions of gtk and atk libraries than 2.6.x.
But Fedora should be aware of that and install them.

Gerard.

Thank you gerard82. I am loving Linux Fedora