From: valtul AT demos DOT su (Valery Tulnikov)
Subject: RE: GIMP anyone?
30 Jun 1998 04:50:16 -0700
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Two remarks:
Firstly, there is a function in Gimp --no-shm that you could use when
starting a program - it's work for me on FreeBSD (everyone could see that
the Gimp's loading is significantly slow down), but it's no work on Cygwin
with or without IPC package - it's hanging up in script-fu module. Did you
try to comment all shm things out? It'll be the greate contribution to
Cygwin  ported application list.
The second: it could be more efficient to produce a shared dll for GTK and
Gimp - it takes over 50 mb on my hard drive - too much for buggy port!

With best regards,

Valery Tulnikov,
valtul AT demos DOT su
http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul


-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Stockdale [mailto:astockdale AT computer DOT org]
Sent: 29 ???? 1998 ?. 22:39
To: valtul AT demos DOT su
Subject: RE: GIMP anyone?



> It's compiled out of box. But GIMP use shared memory calls - there no
> support in Cygwin for shared memory. Someone develops external package for
> that (see http://www.multione.capgemini.fr/tools/pack_ipc/) but it's not
> functioned very well and need additional developer efforts to work
properly.
> Anyway, if you need that buggy version of GIMP let me know.
>

The GIMP code is written in such a way that you can pretty much comment out
any calls to shm functions (requires a little intelligence, but not a lot).
The GIMP will just assume that shm is not working on your machine, and work
around the lack of shared memory.


Alexander Stockdale

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