Even if i prefer use portable version of gimp i tried also the official 64 bit version , and gmic install without problem
May be several reason for a faulty install, most probable is a few kb lost during download (happens often and not always the browser note missing file )
Only way to avoid this risk would be control the checksum or use a trusted torrent , alas the official win version does not offer neither options
First try to download again.
If not that may be a clone of same dll used by gmic to cause the problem , but i don't think so because in case should be a error message ...a misleading error message about "missing dll" that is more often caused by duplicate of the same dll
(often is the zlib.dll , because used also by other plugins that may have added it somewhere )
Ronounours wrote:
G'MIC clearly lacks a good plug-in installer for win64 bits. This is on the to-do list, but I've no access to win64 machines.
I have a working .iss configuration file (Ino Setup Script) that I use for win32, and I guess it could be used for win64 as well, but it seems there are always problems with .dll.
That's quite annoying.
About installers , i believe i never had problems because i never used the installer but only zipped file :
A automatic Win installer may only dump gmic in the plugin folder with all the others
That work most of time but not always because the risk of conflicting dll from other third party plugin , that is minimized if placing gmic in a dedicated folder... but is a process that can't be automatized by a installer:
because the path for the new folder has to be manually added from gimp preferences.