Re: [Gimp-developer] Problem with GIMP 2.9.x build dependencies

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Carmelo DrRaw <aferrero1975 gmail com>
wrote:

> Dear GIMP experts,
>
> I am having troubles to compile the dependencies required to build the
> latest GEGL/GIMP versions from GIT.
>
> The problem I am facing is the following:
>
> * on one hand, GEGL requires GLIB > 2.44.0
>
> * on the other hand, PyGTK (needed to have python support in GIMP) wants
> pygobject-2.0, whose latest version I could find is 2.28.6
> However, this version must be compiled against a gobject-introspection
> version prior to this commit: https://mail.gnome.org/
> archives/commits-list/2011-August/msg03069.html <https://mail.gnome.org/
> archives/commits-list/2011-August/msg03069.html> (Deprecate ErrorDomain),
> otherwise one gets compilation errors due to undefined enum values. So this
> brings me to 1.29.16 as the latest usable gobject-introspection version (at
> least according to release dates, see http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/
> GNOME/sources/gobject-introspection/1.29/ <http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/
> GNOME/sources/gobject-introspection/1.29/>).
> However, gobject-introspection-1.29.16 cannot be compiled against
> glib-2.44.0 because of g_module_* functions having been moved into a sport
> library, which gobject-introspection-1.29.16 is not linking…
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Is there a recommended set of library versions
> for compiling GIMP? Or should I patch object-introspection to add the
> missing glib library?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!

Use pygtk-2.24 and you should be fine.