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Jehan authored
This new job resulted in a package which allows to run GIMP on Windows (as tested in a VM; at least it starts, I can create a new canvas and paint). Of course I think this will need to be tweaked a little bit more, as I'm sure we miss things here and there. At the very least, even though I add the Python and Luajit binaries, GIMP on Windows didn't find them. This will need to be investigated. Also it looks like opening from a remote location may not work. Not sure if this about a missing GIO module or maybe something which works differently on Windows (I was not even able to drag'n drop from the browser!). Anyway this needs to be looked at as well. Note that gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders is apparently unneeded when GIMP is built this way (unlike with our crossroad build). All this to say that this is still an early attempt to full CI build for Windows. It doesn't invalidate the crossroad build, because cross-compilation builds from Linux will always stay very important for Linux developers to be able to easily fix Windows bugs too; yet the crossroad build has 2 major issues: 1. We haven't figured out yet how to run GObject Introspection tools for cross-builds, so the crossroad builds are not full-featured (and this is quite a major feature we are missing!). 2. Also I will want to run the installer in the CI at some point and the one we use can only run on Windows itself AFAIK. We could try to run it through Wine, but still anyway the point 1. is already quite a blocker, let's do the simple thing. Note that we will likely want to move to meson for this build, because autotools is very slow on Windows. But as long as the few blocker meson bugs are not fixed, let's stick to the slow yet good build.
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