[Gimp-user] normalmap and resynthesizer plug-ins and gimp 2.6

[David Gowers]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:08 PM, peter kostov <gimp at light-bg.com> wrote:
> Doug wrote:
>> peter kostov wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> does anybody know if the normalmap and the resynthesizer plug-ins do
>>> work with GIMP 2.6?
>>>
>>> I am on Gentoo and currently have two different versions of GIMP - 2.4
>>> installed system wide and 2.6 installed only for me. I use 2.4 when I
>>> need these plug-ins and 2.6 for everything else.
>>> Currently if I try to use these and other plug-ins (I am not speaking
>>> of these that came with the GIMP itself) with GIMP 2.6 I am getting an
>>> error message like this:
>>>
>>> gimp_plug_in_handle_proc_run: ERROR
>>>
>>> Could not execute plug-in "normalmap"
>>> (/home/peter/.gimp-2.6/plug-ins/normalmap)
>>> because it uses an obsolete version of the plug-in protocol.
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>> Peter Kostov
>>>
>>> _
>> Hi,
>> I have resynthesizer working on 2.6.3.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>
> That's good!
>
> I know I have to recompile them, but I don't know how to recompile them
> against a specific version of GIMP, not the system wide installed. And
> that is why I decided to ask you, before I upgrade my GIMP system wide.
Well, if you use the gimptool belonging to your 2.6 GIMP to compile
the plugin, rather than the systemwide gimptool, that should be
effective.

David