Welcome!
========

This is the OS/2 port of version 2.2.8 of The GIMP to be run on XFree86/OS2.

Do not expect this port to be perfect. Consider it a starting point. However,
it seems to run reasonably well, and is, btw, better than nothing.


Limitations:
============

o No print support

o No help browser because of the ridiculously long list of gnome libraries
  it depends on. They will probably take months to compile. You can, however,
  configure it to use Mozilla, but you have to switch to the WPS each time.

o Some image formats are not supported because the needed libraries are
  not available yet.


Minimum requirements:
=====================

(Don't shoot me; such is life!)

o XFree86 v4.5 and the latest fixes for libXft and libfreetype:

  ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/xfree86/4.5.0
  ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/xfree86/4.5.0/fixes

o Libraries:

  fontconfig v2.3.2
    http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/font/fontconfig-2.3.2.zip

  gettext-runtime v0.14.5
    http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/unix/gettext-runtime-0.14.5.zip

  Libpng v1.0.18
    http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/mm/libpng-1.0.18.zip

  Glib-2.0 v2.6.5
    http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/graphics/gimp/glib-2.6.5.zip

  Atk v1.9.0
    http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/graphics/gimp/atk-1.9.0.zip

  Pango v1.8.1
    http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/graphics/gimp/pango-1.8.1.zip

  Gtk-2.0 v2.6.8
    http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/graphics/gimp/gtk+-2.6.8.zip

  Exif v0.6.12
    http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/mm/libexif-0.6.12.zip

  Libart LGPL v2.3.17
    http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/graphics/gimp/libart_lgpl-2.3.17.zip

  jpeg6b, tiff (maybe others):
    http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/mm/jpeg6b.zip
    http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/mm/tiff34.zip
  (tiff.dll needs z.dll)

o The GIMP itself
    http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/graphics/gimp/gimp-2.2.8.zip

o Optional:

  WGET
  GhostScript
  Helpfiles
    http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/graphics/gimp/gimp-help-2.0.7.zip

Installation:
=============

o If you haven't already done so, install XFree86/OS2 4.5.0 and make sure it
  works. This is described elsewhere. Other servers have not been tested and
  very likely won't work. If you want to run GIMP with a different X-server
  you're completely on your own.

o Copy the libXft and libfreetype fixes over the installation.

o Replace fontconfig included in XFree86 with fontconfig v2.3.2 by copying it
  over the XFree86 installation. Edit the file /etc/fonts/fonts.conf so the
  font directory list has the directories you want (including drive letters).
  Then, run 'fc-cache -f -v'.

o Unpack the remaining packages from the list above on the X11ROOT drive.
  Add /usr/bin to your PATH and /usr/lib to your LIBPATH.

o Run the following commands:

    pango-querymodules > %X11ROOT%\etc\pango\pango.modules

    gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > %X11ROOT%\etc\gtk-2.0\gdk-pixbuf.loaders

    gtk-query-immodules-2.0 > %X11ROOT%\etc\gtk-2.0\gtk.immodules

o Set the environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING to something like CP850
  in your config.sys. Otherwise filenames will be encoded in UTF-8.

o Launch XFree86/OS2 and type 'gimp-2.2' in a terminal.


Enjoy!

--
  giessler@biomag.uni-jena.de
