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Eshikafe: /* GTKmm */

2015-10-19T11:05:32Z

‎GTKmm

Eshikafe: /* Updated Mingw */

2015-10-18T16:05:58Z

‎Updated Mingw

Eshikafe: /* Git */

2015-10-18T16:00:33Z

‎Git

Eshikafe: /* Git */

2015-10-18T15:51:49Z

‎Git

Eshikafe at 15:45, 18 October 2015

2015-10-18T15:45:26Z

Eshikafe: /* Git */

2015-10-18T15:42:44Z

‎Git

Eshikafe: /* Updated Mingw */

2015-10-18T15:31:35Z

‎Updated Mingw

Eshikafe: /* Updated Mingw */

2015-10-18T15:28:34Z

‎Updated Mingw

Eshikafe: /* Updated Mingw */

2015-10-18T15:22:22Z

‎Updated Mingw

Eshikafe: /* Updated Mingw */

2015-10-18T15:06:20Z

‎Updated Mingw

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 ===[http://www.gtkmm.org/ GTKmm]===
   maybe this is useful to read too: http://live.gnome.org/gtkmm/MSWindows
-Go to [http://www.pcpm.ucl.ac.be/~gustin/win32_ports/ this page] and download the latest GTKmm devel package for Windows:
+Go to [https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gtkmm/MSWindows this page] and download the latest GTKmm devel package for Windows:
 * http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.10/gtkmm-win32-devel-2.10.8-1.exe (16.1 MB)

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 Note 2: Windows command line option for installing the required MinGW packages
-  <code> mingw-get.exe install gcc g++ fortran msys-base mingw-developer-toolkit </code>
+  <pre> mingw-get.exe install gcc g++ fortran msys-base mingw-developer-toolkit </pre>
 Figure 3: package installation from the Windows command line

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 ==Non MinGW packages==
 === [http://git-scm.com/ Git] ===
-Synfig source is now stored in a git repository (https://github.com/synfig/synfig). You will need the git client to get it. Also, git is needed by the build scripts to receive the revision number of the source.
+Synfig source is now stored in a git repository (https://github.com/synfig/synfig) - you can use [https://github.com/blackwarthog/synfig.git blackwarthog's] fork. You will need the git client to get it. Also, git is needed by the build scripts to receive the revision number of the source.
 You can download the Windows git version from one of these page:

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 ==Non MinGW packages==
 === [http://git-scm.com/ Git] ===
-Synfig source is now stored in a git repository (https://github.com/blackwarthog/synfig.git). You will need the git client to get it. Also, git is needed by the build scripts to receive the revision number of the source.
+Synfig source is now stored in a git repository (https://github.com/synfig/synfig). You will need the git client to get it. Also, git is needed by the build scripts to receive the revision number of the source.
 You can download the Windows git version from one of these page:

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	After download and install (I recommend to install to custom folder C:\Git) you must add C:\Git\bin to the PATH. See here to know how to do that. http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started (Environment Variables).		After download and install (I recommend to install to custom folder C:\Git) you must add C:\Git\bin to the PATH. See here to know how to do that. http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started (Environment Variables).
−
−	~~===[http://subversion.tigris.org Subversion]===~~
−
−	<s>Synfig source is stored in a subversion repository. You will need the svn client to get it. Also the svn client is required by the Synfig build scripts, to receive the revision number of the source.
−	~~You can download the Windows subversion package from this page:~~
−
−	* http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=91
−
−	~~When I wrote this the latest version was 1.4.3:~~
−
−	* http://subversion.tigris.org/files/documents/15/36797/svn-1.4.3-setup.exe (3.58 Mb)
−
−	~~But it is best to get the newest available version.</s>~~

	===[http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsis/ NSIS]===		===[http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsis/ NSIS]===

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 [[File:Mingw-installation-step-1.png]]
 Note 1: You really do need to install Fortran; even though Synfig does not require it, it is required by the autoconf configuration scripts. These are the minimal required package versions which are needed to successfully build win32 synfig (version numbers from the 5.1.3 package):
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 * mingw32-make-3.81-2.tar.gz (95 Kb)
+Figure 2: Installing the required packages
-Figure 3: Install the required packages
 [[File:Mingw-installation.PNG]]
 Note 2: Windows command line option for installing the required MinGW packages
   <code> mingw-get.exe install gcc g++ fortran msys-base mingw-developer-toolkit </code>
-Figure 2: package installation from the Windows command line
+Figure 3: package installation from the Windows command line
 [[File:Mingw-installation-cmd.PNG]]

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 Run mingw-get-setup.exe and follow the installation step (see Figure 1)
-Figure 1: MinGW Setup
+Figure 1: MinGW Setup. You can uncheck the checkbox highlighted in green if you prefer to use the command line option to install the required MinGW packages (see Note 2)
 [[File:Mingw-installation-step-1.png]]
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 * mingw32-make-3.81-2.tar.gz (95 Kb)
-Required packages: Select the following packages from the installer (see Figure 3)
+Step 2: Install the following packages using the MinGW Installer(see Figure 3)
 * MinGW Compiler Suit
 ** C Compiler (selected always)
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 * MSYS Basic System (select it)
 * MinGW Developer Toolkit (select it)
 Note 2: Windows command line option for installing the required MinGW packages
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 [[File:Mingw-installation-cmd.PNG]]
 Confirm default installation path <code>C:\MinGW</code>. If you install MinGW into another directory, synfig compilation may fail.

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 Please you can also refer to this page: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started on how to install MingW
-First - download [http://www.mingw.org/ MinGW] installer (mingw-get-setup.exe)
+Step 1 - Download [http://www.mingw.org/ MinGW] installer (mingw-get-setup.exe)
-Run mingw-get-setup.exe (running in fact mingw-get-0.6.2-beta-20131004-1 as of Aug. 2015) and follow the installation step (Figure 1)
+Figure 1: MinGW Setup
-You can uncheck the check-box highlighted in green in the figure below if you prefer to use the command line option (see Note 3 for the command line option)
-* MinGW base tools
+[[File:Mingw-installation-step-1.png]]
-* g++ Compiler
-* g77 Compiler
-* MinGW Make
-* MSYS(both you will still have to go back and install later but this will be explained when the time comes)
-Note 1: you really do need to install Fortran; even though Synfig does not require it, it is required by the autoconf configuration scripts. These are the minimal required package versions which are needed to successfully build win32 synfig (version numbers from the 5.1.3 package):
+You can uncheck the check-box highlighted in green in Figure 1 if you prefer to use the command line option to install the required MinGW packages (see Note 2)
 * mingw-runtime-3.12.tar.gz (429.7 Kb)
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 * mingw32-make-3.81-2.tar.gz (95 Kb)
-Note 2: mingw-get-inst-20110316.exe provides the following options to choose:
+Required packages: Select the following packages from the installer (see Figure 3)
 * MinGW Compiler Suit
 ** C Compiler (selected always)
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 * MinGW Developer Toolkit (select it)
-Note 3: After installing Mingw, run the following command from the C:\MinGW\bin directory
+Note 2: Windows command line option for installing the required MinGW packages
-* mingw-get install gcc g++ fortran msys-base mingw-developer-toolkit
+ <code> mingw-get.exe install gcc g++ fortran msys-base mingw-developer-toolkit </code>
-Confirm default installation path <code>C:\MinGW</code>. If you install MinGW into another directory, synfig compilation may fail.
+[[File:Mingw-installation-cmd.PNG]]
 [[File:Mingw-installation.PNG]]
 ===MSYS===

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 ==Updated Mingw==
-Welcome to the updated mingw page! As the information is checked to be fully functional we will post it to this page. As that is verified the old information shown here will be deleted since you are not what so ever to get it working using the below information since the developers of mingw have discontinued and removed that version and setup of that way completely. For now refer to this page: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started
+Welcome to the updated mingw page!
-First - download [http://www.mingw.org/ MinGW] installer. You may get version mingw-get-inst-20101030.exe or higher but with the current setup of mingw this is best way to install it.
-* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-setup.exe/download Download mingw-get-setup]
+Please you can also refer to this page: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started on how to install MingW
-Run mingw-get-setup.exe (running in fact mingw-get-0.6.2-beta-20131004-1 as of Aug. 2015). When the installer asks which packages to install, select (see Note 2):
 * MinGW base tools
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 * MinGW Developer Toolkit (select it)
 ===MSYS===