A Gimp 2.8 update

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

OMG guys, I am going to have to send these next door. lol
No Rod, My neighbor is an SPCA volunteer. The mother cat was abandoned and they found she was ready to have kittens, so Olga brought mother and 4 kittens home to foster until 8 weeks. Of coarse I go over to check them out once a week and the black one has the blue eyes and the other three are kind of a hazel color. The mother is off-white with blue eyes......
So needless to say, I have watched them from two days old with their eyes not open yet.....

BTW, here is the family

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16155

Oh how cute, Calecos too!
The mother looks to be Siamese. =)
I would hold on to the black one with blue eyes, they are rare.

Does the gray one have blue eyes also?

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

yes but not as bright as Sissy's...... thanx but no thanx. I have two cats already. I can put a word in for you tho..... :mrgreen:

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16155

Cool, place them in a box and ship them to me!...lol
Make sure to give them air holes!

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12829

Definitely a rare gem to have such blue eyes like that. I'm also very partial to tuxedos (a mother tuxedo was pregnant and my then wife and I (did I have a choice; lol) took her in and we took care of her. She had kittens a few weeks later, and I continued to take care of her and 2 of 6 kittens (had found homes for 3 of them; one, my favorite, died after 4 months and not sure why; looked very much like your kitten except did not have blue eyes; called him Boots) for 2 years before my sister helped me find a good home for the trio. Now, I am blessed with a medium-long haired tuxedo that I've taken care of for a little more then 3 years now.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16155

I may still be able to compile it for windows if i can get intltool working correctly
I downloaded and installed the latest version set the path variable and set the environment variable to force intltool to use the xml parser in active perl.
However this is still the result...
The tarball is already unzipped using CYGWIN...

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Compaq_Owner@Family-Room ~
$ cd gimp-2.7.2

Compaq_Owner@Family-Room ~/gimp-2.7.2
$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe
checking for suffix of executables... .exe
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-cygwin
checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin
checking for as... as
checking for dlltool... dlltool
checking for objdump... objdump
checking how to print strings... printf
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for fgrep... /usr/bin/grep -F
checking for ld used by gcc... c:/strawberry/c/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe
checking if the linker (c:/strawberry/c/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe) is GNU ld..
. yes
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /cygdrive/c/strawberry/c/
bin/nm -B
checking the name lister (/cygdrive/c/strawberry/c/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD n
m
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 8192
checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes
checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes
checking for c:/strawberry/c/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe option to reload object
 files... -r
checking for objdump... (cached) objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... file_magic ^x86 archive import|
^x86 DLL
checking for ar... ar
checking for strip... strip
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking command to parse /cygdrive/c/strawberry/c/bin/nm -B output from gcc obj
ect... ok
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc linker (c:/strawberry/c/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe) su
pports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... Win32 ld.exe
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for pkg-config... /cygdrive/c/GTK/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.16... yes
checking for target architecture... i686-pc-cygwin
checking for some Win32 platform... yes
checking for native Win32... no
checking for library containing strerror... none required
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... unknown
checking for _LARGE_FILES value needed for large files... unknown
checking whether to turn on debugging... no
checking whether to turn on profiling... no
checking whether gcc understands -Wdeclaration-after-statement... yes
checking whether gcc understands -Wmissing-prototypes... yes
checking whether gcc understands -Wstrict-prototypes... yes
checking whether gcc understands -Wmissing-declarations... yes
checking whether gcc understands -Winit-self... yes
checking whether gcc understands -Wpointer-arith... yes
checking whether gcc understands -Wold-style-definition... yes
checking whether gcc understands -Wmissing-format-attribute... yes
checking whether gcc understands -Wformat-security... yes
checking whether gcc understands -Wformat-non-literal... no
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... no
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking sys/param.h usability... yes
checking sys/param.h presence... yes
checking for sys/param.h... yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes
checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking sys/times.h usability... no
checking sys/times.h presence... no
checking for sys/times.h... no
checking for sys/wait.h... (cached) no
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for pid_t... yes
checking return type of signal handlers... void
checking for vprintf... yes
checking for _doprnt... no
checking for size_t... yes
checking for working alloca.h... no
checking for alloca... yes
checking for fsync... no
checking for difftime... yes
checking for mmap... no
checking whether binary relocation support should be enabled... no
checking for _NL_MEASUREMENT_MEASUREMENT... no
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for intltool >= 0.40.1... ./configure: /cygdrive/c/GTK/bin/intltool-upd
ate: /opt/perl/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Invalid argument
 found
configure: error: Your intltool is too old.  You need intltool 0.40.1 or later.

Compaq_Owner@Family-Room ~/gimp-2.7.2
$

So if anyone out there knows how to get intltool to work please let me know. =)
Until then i am stuck =\

Here are the paths i set, just wondering if they look right? Should the Intltool folder be in GTK directory, and the path set to that?
INTLTOOL - C:\Perl\bin\intltool_0.40.4-1_win32 <--- for intltool call at compile
INTLTOOL_PERL - C:\Perl\bin\perl <--- for xml parser perl module that intltool needs

jinj · **Joined:** Dec 03, 2010 **Posts:** 16

Hi all,
I'm new to the forum

any chance to get a new development 2.7 version for windows.
I'm using 2.6.11 & 2.7.1 version since the text tool let gimp 2.7.1 crash instantly.

BTW... is there a solution for this problem.... I want to skip definitively to layer group and single window

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

till now nobody here found how to compile recent 2.7 for windows

Gms9810 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2010 9:30 am **(#89)**

Grrrrr, I was really looking forward to their December release plans. I'm so depressed I'm going to stick my head in the oven. Fortunately it's an electric oven, turned off and has a pie in it. But it's still very disturbing, seriously.

Bob63 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2010 1:26 pm **(#90)**

What kind of pie? Seeing it is the holiday season, you might end up with a mincemeat head! :rofl

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2010 1:56 pm **(#91)**

I'm going to eat my pumpkin pie right now!!

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16155

Pie does sound better than comPIEling .. just a little "Fun-Pun" there. =P
Anyways see my other post " Hey RobA" for further development in Windows compile success...it's getting close.

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4050

By the time you're done, Rod. 2.8 will be out, lol.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16155

lol ... probably will have most of the needed dependencies by then ... maybe :hoh

jinj · **Joined:** Dec 03, 2010 **Posts:** 16

hi,
any news about a new release of 2.7 version for win?
or is the official 2.8 release imminent?
thanks for any info

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16155

No compiled version of 2.7.2 yet.
There is a Windows installer for Gimp-2.7.1 here though (non production use), as it's a test version with bugs.
ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.7/

Be advised that this installer will un-install all previous versions of Gimp in the Gimp-2.0 directory!
So if you do not want to install over previous versions...rename your 2.0 directory to 2.6 and rename it back to 2.0 after installing 2.7.Also this installer WILL use your gimp-2.6 folder in user docs as its copy source.Your folder will not be deleted just copied and renamed to gimp-2.7.You will then have two dif folders in user docs...gimp-2.6 and gimp-2.7. Just a heads up.

Then you will have two dif gimp versions...2.6.11 and 2.7.1 =)
Enjoy!
If you do not want to install anything...give me a pm holler and ill set you up with a link to my 2.7 portable i created.

jinj · **Joined:** Dec 03, 2010 **Posts:** 16

this is the way I do!

but what about the official 2.8 release...around 26-12-2011 is it delayed?

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16155

That will i have heard be released sometime in the first quarter of 2011.But with all the new features presented with it, it will be worth the wait.The new Cage Transform Tool, is in the master now and will be included with 2.8. =)

jinj · **Joined:** Dec 03, 2010 **Posts:** 16

thank you for the fast reply..... amazing transformation tool!
well....
I still hope that the text tool will fixed in the next win pre 2.8 release.
I hope in a 2.7.2 for Christmas

thank you

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16155

Your welcome, and we can only hope for an early Christmas present !! =)