I have recently started building GIMP on Windows as per the GIMP Windows hacking page (with success until now) but have now fallen foul of the requirement for glib-networking.

I have entered the following command in MSYS2:

pacman -S mingw32/mingw-w64-i686-glib-networking

The install seemed to be successful but the GIMP autogen fails, saying that glib-networking is missing.

Can somebody tell me what else I need to do please?

By entering the following lines into mingw64 I can now get the gimp autogen to work:

Richard@HomePC MINGW64 ~ $ pacman -S base-devel \

mingw-w64-x86_64-glib-networking

Then press Enter to select all of the options.

This process automatically installs gnutls and nettle (referenced in Partha's post)

The final line of the three listed above should be added to the relevant section on the GIMP Windows hacking page.

I have recently started building GIMP on Windows as per the GIMP Windows hacking page (with success until now) but have now fallen foul of the requirement for glib-networking.

I have entered the following command in MSYS2:

pacman -S mingw32/mingw-w64-i686-glib-networking

The install seemed to be successful but the GIMP autogen fails, saying that glib-networking is missing.

Can somebody tell me what else I need to do please?

Sorry, he above post didn't appear quite as intended. The three lines types into mingw64 should look like:

Richard@HomePC MINGW64 ~ $ pacman -S base-devel \

mingw-w64-x86_64-glib-networking

(lines typed manually now rather than cut and paste which seemed to upset the formatting)

By entering the following lines into mingw64 I can now get the gimp autogen to work:

Richard@HomePC MINGW64 ~ $ pacman -S base-devel \
Then press Enter to select all of the options.

This process automatically installs gnutls and nettle (referenced in Partha's post)

The final line of the three listed above should be added to the relevant section on the GIMP Windows hacking page.

Still wrong - try again with quotes

"Richard@HomePC MINGW64 ~" "$ pacman -S base-devel \"
"> mingw-w64-x86_64-glib-networking"

(If that doesn't work I give up but I'm sure that the intent can be seen!)

Sorry, he above post didn't appear quite as intended. The three lines types into mingw64 should look like:

Richard@HomePC MINGW64 ~ $ pacman -S base-devel \
(lines typed manually now rather than cut and paste which seemed to upset the formatting)

I thought that I had this sorted - at least GIMP built with glib-networking the other day. Now the autogen for GIMP says that it can't find glib-networking and I can't find a .dll for it.

Trying a different tack to that noted above I have downloaded glib-networking-2.50-0 and extracted it.

I have then used the following commands which all seem to complete successfully:

./configure --without-ca-certificates --prefix=PREFIX --disable-static make
make install

What else do I need to do to generate the required file for a Windows build of GIMP please?

I thought that I had this sorted - at least GIMP built with glib-networking the other day. Now the autogen for GIMP says that it can't find glib-networking and I can't find a .dll for it.

Trying a different tack to that noted above I have downloaded glib-networking-2.50-0 and extracted it.

I have then used the following commands which all seem to complete successfully:

./configure --without-ca-certificates --prefix=PREFIX --disable-static make
make install

What else do I need to do to generate the required file for a Windows build of GIMP please?

(Formatting on this site caused the make to appear at the end of the configure line - but it is correct in the quoted text!)

(Formatting on this site caused the make to appear at the end of the configure line - but it is correct in the quoted text!)

What is it with this site? The text appeared correctly in the quoted section when I was typing the last post but when it is displayed it is wrong. What do I need to do to get the formatting that I wanted - after all it says plain text only?

Having looked at the GIMP developer mailing list archives I can't say I relish having my email address exposed - I get enough spam as it is.

Perhaps I have led a sheltered existence but in over 40 years of earning a living writing and designing software I have never come across an editor (WYSIWYG or plain text) that autonomously removes line breaks.

I suppose that I will have to go back to an earlier set of sources or wait until there is a compiled version that uses glib-networking available.

You could subscribe to the original mailing list and use a proper mail client - the list is set up to allow for plain text only, to keep it usable for all clients and devices.

Thanks for your reply - I hadn't realised that this change had been added to V2.8 as well as 2.9.

I have found the answer to my problem. The make of glib-networking that I did had worked but I had made two mistakes. Firstly I was looking for glib-networking.dll rather than libgiognutls.dll. Secondly although I had tried putting liggiognutls.dll into my prefix lib folder it actually has to go into the prefix\lib\gio\modules folder.

At least autogen.sh now completes successfully. It might be clearer if the autogen message referred to libgiognutls (in addition to glib-networking) then at least I wouldn't have spent a while looking for the wrong file.

For what it is worth, everything you wrote seems to show up as intended
on the mailing list. This could means that the issue is display-only, or
at least that the mail gimpusers.com sends to the list is left intact. This is GIMP 2.8.22 - adding glib-networking was one of the points to make this release.

BTW, this also seems to have given us transparent proxy support - i.e. file access from locations where a proxy server is mandatory may now just work. Can anyone confirm this?