[Gimp-developer] GIMP performance

[Rob Antonishen]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:39 AM, David Gowers wrote:
> Hello Andrea,
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Andrea Olivotto
>> Another request for you: I'm a firmware programmer, and I know C programming
>> quite well, and some time ago I tried to compile GIMP in Windows enviroment,
>> but I can't find a complete tutorial, relative to 2.6 tree (and now 2.7).
>>
>
> Is
> http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/HowToCompileGimp/MicrosoftWindows
>

I just compiled under XP following the wiki last weekend and  had to
modify two lines of the
http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/CompileGimpAtWindowsShellScript file in
order to get it working.

After a quick email with Carl who suggested:

> A better option is maybe try to modify a line both within the
> download_and_zextract function and the download and tbz2extract
> function, from this:
>
> wget $WGETFLAGS "$PACK_LOCATION/$PACKAGE.zip" 2>&1 | grep -v -i "^sys\(tem_\)\?wgetrc";
>
> to this
>
> wget $WGETFLAGS "$PACK_LOCATION/$PACKAGE.zip"

-Rob A>