Thanks guys...

never thought of being a true Gimp before. What an honer...er i think.

I don't know, something inside me just told me i have to compile Gimp-2.6.11.
Although not many have been able to compile Gimp on Windows i owe everything to Partha and his instructions on setup and the groundwork for building Gimp-2.7.4, and Gimp-2.6.11.
I also owe him a lot for all his help with all the code, and configuration errors he walked me through.
Partha you rock!
Next i think i will try and compile Gimp Painter.
After that i think i am going to stick with Gimp-2.8.1 and beyond betas as well as those plug-ins that meander along to the Gimp Registry that need to be compiled for Windows.
I have also been playing with a new C+ interface builder (GNU). The program is called Fast Light Tool Kit and i have compiled it for Windows 32 bit already also.

src files -
http://fltk.org/index.php
I think i can learn a lot about C+ source code from it and that is a huge bonus for me, and being able to play with the plugin source code properly.
The next thing i need to learn is proper packaging.GPL and other license files/READMES that need to go out with each compile and so on.
Not to mention another project i just bought hosting for!
2012 is going to be a busy year for me i think.
