Running GIMP under Cygwin (not Win32!)??
Rui-Tao Dong
rdong@trestlecorp.com
Thu Mar 6 21:03:00 GMT 2003
1.2.1 compiles more or less out of the box and runs fine w/ most of
the plugins. However, it is very very slow. My 200MHz PPro Linux box
w/256MB memory and a remote display runs much snappier than the 2GHz
P4 W2k box w/1GMB Memory running CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.12 with local XFree.
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>>>>> "chris" == Chris Olive <chris@technologease.com> writes:
chris> I posted this question to the cygwin mailing list last week,
chris> and someone on that list referred me here and said he
chris> cross-posted for me. I didn't hear anything from his
chris> "cross-post," so I'm trying again...
chris> It would seem it's at least possible to run The GIMP under
chris> Cygwin/XFree. Try as I might, I can't get it to work.
chris> Specifically, I can't get some of the necessary pre-requeistes
chris> to configure and make properly (glib, GTK+, etc.) Has ANYONE
chris> gotten GIMP to work under Cygwin, and if so, specifically what
chris> steps did you take to get it to work? I've done a lot of
chris> research on this before asking the question, and there is bare
chris> mention of this on the web -- I see NO WHERE where anyone
chris> claims that this works. Essentially, there is no SOLID
chris> information ANYWHERE on getting this to work.
chris> I am interested only in running GIMP under Cygwin/XFree -- I
chris> am NOT interested the Win32 version of GIMP! Any help would
chris> be GREATLY appreciated.
chris> Thanks, Chris ----- Chris Olive chris[at]technologEase[dot]com
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