Hello,

I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop and would like to give it try, but I couldn’t find a way to start. I tried to read developer.gimp.org FAQ, but it is very short describing where to get source code, how to produce build, what build tool I need to use, how to check out files, how to produce submission, what type of comment s the submission should have, where to get review for my change and so one. I’m sure you guys know all this – and it is perhaps written somewhere.

The process of installing the files that are required for development differs a bit from distribution to distribution.

Explaining development for all flavours of operating system that The Gimp runs on would go far beyond the project itself, so you won't possibly find much information on that with regards to your flavour of operating system here but rather in groups that focus on that specific operating system / distribution you are using. in case of ubuntu, I'd say that you probably will find some more details at http://help.ubuntu.com/ or http://wiki.ubuntu.com/.

Anyway, for ubuntu, you should begin with installing the build-essentials package and the source file package for the software you want to mess with. Normally there will still be some more pre-requisites to be matched, mostly the so-called dev-packages which provide the header files for some of the libraries that the project is going to be linked against, so you need to install them, too - as well as some tools for internationalization, editing, version control, etc.

hth

Torsten

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:31 PM, JirkaS wrote:

Hi everybody - I'm sw developer "enthusiast" and would like to try put my hands on GIMP. I worked as C and C++ developer for several years, but mostly on Windows (Unix only occasionally during my university time - and that's history folks). I'm working with GIMP for several years - just simple editing stuff for my pictures.

I'm not a Gimp developer, but I think I can help.

I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop and would like to give it try, but I couldn't find a way to start. I tried to read developer.gimp.org FAQ, but it is very short describing

Developer.gimp.org is a very good start. But perhaps you can tell us what you have already done.
You can read the most important things here: http://developer.gimp.org/HACKING
or here:
http://gimp.org/develop/

And here are the basics: http://www.gimpusers.com/news/2008-10-07/compile-gimp-260-for-ubuntu-804.html

I can only recommend to visit the Gimp IRC-Cannel, because there you can directly talk to the developers: http://www.gimp.org/irc.html

Regards: Tobias