I wanna edit gimp source code for my personal specific requirements that are custom printing related, is there any way i can download edit and compile gimp code for windows and ubuntu...?
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5gimp.org/source --- are you really sure? Good luck... – Rmano Mar 25 '15 at 10:00
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1What are you trying to do, exactly? You may find that writing a GIMP plugin is a better route. – steeldriver Mar 25 '15 at 11:26
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i wanna override the part where gimp goes on for printing and edit the final document to simple binary array readable by my usb connected custom controller – Nouman Tahir Mar 25 '15 at 17:21
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Any reason why you want to do that via print, and not by a file exporter plug-in? – Michael Schumacher Mar 26 '15 at 0:35
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its not a necessity, i just considered it a good starting point, but main concern is producing a final windows compatible .exe file – Nouman Tahir Mar 26 '15 at 4:18
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in the terminal:
$sudo apt-get source gimp
you'll end up with something like: gimp_2.8.14-1.debian.tar.xz gimp_2.8.14-1.dsc gimp_2.8.14.orig.tar.bz2
you can decompress the files, and modify them at your leisure. (compiling, in future, not guaranteed.) if you do modify the source, and recompile, I recommend running from a local directory rather than installing over the system version. At least until you know your mods are stable.
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say i m done with the editing part, how would i then extract the .exe version of gimp for installation on windows....also it ll be nice if you could give a link for "running from local directory" instructions, the method i know is "make" and "make install" way....Thanks – Nouman Tahir Mar 25 '15 at 17:33
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1You can unpack the installers with a reasonably capable archiving application - 7zip, for example. – Michael Schumacher Mar 26 '15 at 0:35
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if you want to compile windows binaries in Linux you'll need minGW or something like that. windows libraries aren't the same as linux libraries. A good start, is to read the README file that is in the source-code – j0h Mar 26 '15 at 14:22
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Thanks, rite now i m stuck at "make" stage...this is the error...../usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.6/../../../i386-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so: error: undefined reference to 'g_module_build_path' – Nouman Tahir Mar 26 '15 at 16:30
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This maybe a new question at this point. but, since we're here, developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/… can you verify you have libgtk-x11-2.0.so and that the path is correct? it may be looking to the header in some other location. – j0h Mar 26 '15 at 17:50
