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My Gimp built from Github

I followed this excellent guide and ended up with the latest Gimp shown in the screenshot above …

Building GIMP for artists and photographers

Here’s the sequence of commands I used.

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PREFIX=$HOME/code/gimplch/install
export PATH=$PREFIX/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PREFIX/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$PREFIX/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS
export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I $PREFIX/share/aclocal"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
export GIO_EXTRA_MODULES=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules
export SRC_DIR=$HOME/code/gimplch/build
 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get build-dep gimp
sudo apt-get install git
 
mkdir $HOME/code
mkdir $HOME/code/gimplch
mkdir $HOME/code/gimplch/build
mkdir $HOME/code/gimplch/install
mkdir $HOME/code/gimplch/install/share
mkdir $HOME/code/gimplch/install/share/aclocal
touch $HOME/code/gimplch/install/share/aclocal/gimp-2.0.m4
 
cd $HOME/code/gimplch/build
git clone git://git.gnome.org/glib
git clone git://git.gnome.org/gdk-pixbuf
git clone git://git.gnome.org/babl
git clone git://git.gnome.org/gegl
git clone git://github.com/mypaint/libmypaint.git
 
cd $SRC_DIR/glib
./autogen.sh --prefix=$PREFIX
make -j5
make -j3 install
cd ..
git clone git://git.gnome.org/json-glib
cd $SRC_DIR/json-glib
./autogen.sh --prefix=$PREFIX
make -j5
make -j5 install
cd $SRC_DIR/gdk-pixbuf
./autogen.sh --prefix=$PREFIX
make -j5
make -j5 install
cd $SRC_DIR/babl
./autogen.sh --prefix=$PREFIX --disable-docs
make -j5
make -j5 install
cd $SRC_DIR/gegl
./autogen.sh --prefix=$PREFIX --enable-gtk-doc-html=no --enable-workshop
make -j5
echo $PREFIX
make -j5 install
cd $SRC_DIR/libmypaint
scons prefix=$HOME/code/gimplch/install use_sharedlib=yes enable_gegl=true
scons prefix=$HOME/code/gimplch/install use_sharedlib=yes enable_gegl=true install
cd $SRC_DIR/gimp
cd ..
ls
git clone git://git.gnome.org/gimp
cd $SRC_DIR/gimp
./autogen.sh --prefix=$PREFIX --with-gimpdir=$HOME/code/gimplch/install/config --disable-gtk-doc --with-gimpdir=$HOME/code/gimpbeta/install/config
make -j5
make -j5 install

Actually starting Gimp if you already have Gimp installed can be tricky. Here’s the script I use based on the one in the guide.

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#! /bin/bash
PREFIX=$HOME/code/gimplch/install
export PATH=$PREFIX/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PREFIX/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$PREFIX/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS
export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I $PREFIX/share/aclocal"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
export GIO_EXTRA_MODULES=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules
export SRC_DIR=$HOME/code/gimplch/build
/home/mzf/code/gimplch/install/bin/gimp-2.9

Now I know how to build I can start adding the patches for artists and photographers which are covered in the guide.

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