port, see http://www.gimp.org/tml/gimp/win32/ or
http://www.iki.fi/tml/gimp/win32/ .
+The current (CVS) version of the Win32 backend is *not* as stable as it
+was before the no-flicker branch was merged. A zipfile with that
+version is available from http://www.gimp.org/win32/. That should be
+use by "production" code until this CVS version is usable. (But note,
+the Win32 backend has never been claimed to be "production quality".)
+
To build GTk+ on Win32, you need either the Microsoft compiler and
-tools, or gcc-2.95 or later running under cygwin-b20.1 or
-later. Compile in gdk\win32, gdk and gtk with `nmake -f makefile.msc` or
-`make -f makefile.cygwin`.
+tools, or gcc-2.95 or later. The mingw setup of gcc is preferred, but
+you can run gcc also under cygwin-b20.1 or later. Compile in
+gdk\win32, gdk and gtk with `nmake -f makefile.msc` or `make -f
+makefile.cygwin`. The name makefile.cygwin is misleading, it should
+really be called makefile.mingw.
See the README.win32 file in the GLib distribution for instructions
how to build with gcc.
from the makefiles.
Note that while the GNU gettext package is under the GPL, the "intl"
-part of it as distributed with GNU libc is under the LGPL (like GTk+
-or GLib). We want the LGPL one, even if they are the same, more or
-less.
+part of it which is distributed with GNU libc is under the LGPL (like
+GTk+ or GLib). We want the LGPL one, even if they are the same, more
+or less.