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GIMP depends on libcurl, but this is not documented

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GIMP depends on libcurl, but this is not documented Jesper de Jong 12 Nov 20:49
  GIMP depends on libcurl, but this is not documented Sven Neumann 12 Nov 21:35
  GIMP depends on libcurl, but this is not documented Martin Nordholts 12 Nov 22:01
   GIMP depends on libcurl, but this is not documented Martin Nordholts 12 Nov 22:19
Jesper de Jong
2007-11-12 20:49:06 UTC (over 17 years ago)

GIMP depends on libcurl, but this is not documented

Hello everybody,

I'm a developer and I'm interested in contributing to GIMP. Developing software is my full-time job, mainly programming enterprise Java software.

To get started with GIMP, I downloaded the source for version 2.4.1 and I'm trying to compile it on my Ubuntu 7.10 (32-bit) machine. I installed a bunch of libraries that are mentioned in the file INSTALL and ran ./configure, which seemed to go without errors.

However, when I ran make, it would stop soon with a confusing error message. After looking through configure.log I noticed that it was looking for libcurl development files, which were not on my system. So I downloaded and installed libcurl (+ dev headers) and now it's busy compiling.

Is libcurl indeed required to compile GIMP? If so, can you please add a note to INSTALL that says you also need libcurl?

Thanks, I'm looking forward to contributing to GIMP.

Jesper de Jong

Sven Neumann
2007-11-12 21:35:47 UTC (over 17 years ago)

GIMP depends on libcurl, but this is not documented

Hi,

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 20:49 +0100, Jesper de Jong wrote:

Is libcurl indeed required to compile GIMP?

No, you don't need libcurl to compile GIMP.

There is one plug-in, which is completely optional, and it uses either gnome-vfs, libcurl or wget. For a Linux system it is recommended to use gnome-vfs when building the URI plug-in.

Sven

Martin Nordholts
2007-11-12 22:01:56 UTC (over 17 years ago)

GIMP depends on libcurl, but this is not documented

Jesper de Jong wrote:

Hello everybody,

I'm a developer and I'm interested in contributing to GIMP. Developing software is my full-time job, mainly programming enterprise Java software.

Thanks, I'm looking forward to contributing to GIMP.

Jesper de Jong

Hi Jesper

Great news! Your contributions will be very appreciated, I'm sure.

To get started with the GIMP source code you should first read up on GObject [1], the object framework GIMP is based on. This library is used for OO-ness in GIMP (and great deal of other GNOME projects too for that matter). Feel free to hang around in #gimp on irc.gimp.org if you have any questions regarding the code or related stuff.

Regards, Martin Nordholts

Martin Nordholts
2007-11-12 22:19:00 UTC (over 17 years ago)

GIMP depends on libcurl, but this is not documented

Hi Jesper

Great news! Your contributions will be very appreciated, I'm sure.

To get started with the GIMP source code you should first read up on GObject [1], the object framework GIMP is based on. This library is used for OO-ness in GIMP (and great deal of other GNOME projects too for that matter). Feel free to hang around in #gimp on irc.gimp.org if you have any questions regarding the code or related stuff.

Forgot the link, here you go...

[1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/unstable/index.html

- Martin