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@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ port, see http://www.gimp.org/tml/gimp/win32/ or
http://www.iki.fi/tml/gimp/win32/ .
To build GTk+ on Win32, you need either Microsoft compiler and tools,
-or egcs-1.1.2 (or gcc-2.95 or later) running under
-cygwin-b20.1. Compile in gdk\win32 and gtk with `nmake -f
-makefile.msc` or `make -f makefile.cygwin`. Before doing a install,
-check the BIN definition in gdk\win32\makefile.msc (or
-makefile.cygwin) and gtk\makefile.msc (or makefile.cygwin).
+or gcc-2.95 or later running under cygwin-b20.1. Compile in gdk\win32
+and gtk with `nmake -f makefile.msc` or `make -f
+makefile.cygwin`. Before doing a install, check the BIN definition in
+gdk\win32\makefile.msc (or makefile.cygwin) and gtk\makefile.msc (or
+makefile.cygwin).
-See the README.win32 file in the GLib distribution for preparations to
-build with egcs on cygwin.
+See the README.win32 file in the GLib distribution for instructions
+how to build with gcc.
The tablet support uses the Wintab API. The Wintab development kit can
be downloaded from http://www.pointing.com.
@@ -22,3 +22,7 @@ very big deal) from tml's web site mentioned above. If you don't want
any i18n stuff, undefine ENABLE_NLS, HAVE_GETTEXT and HAVE_LIBINTL in
the config.h.win32 file, and remove references to the gnu-intl library
from the makefiles.
+
+Note that GNU gettext is under the GPL, not the LGPL like GTk+ or
+GLib. So, if GPL is a problem to you, follow the above advice to
+remove the use of gettext.