Hi Contrast,

It doesn't work for Gimp-3.0.8, but I found a very simple solution that also works for Gimp-3.2 RC2 .
The culprit is a single file - libintl-8.dll in the Gimp bin directory.
I don't know why, but this file from Gimp-3.0.4 solves the problem by replacing it in Gimp 3.0.6, 3.0.8, and 3.2 RC 1/2.

Cool, but that can't be a long term solution, do you still think there is a way to do that without .dll swapping?

Such as whatever Flatscew does that gets the plugins to work on Windows.

This might be a clue to what Flatscew is doing to get Windows installer to work with his and my plugins.

https://github.com/flatscrew/plugins-li ... taller.iss

My msys64/mingw64 configuration, built for Gimp-3.0.4, likely contains a version of libintl-8.dll that is incompatible with Gimp versions higher than 3.0.4.
I'll check this when the stable version 3.2 is released.
Replacing the file isn't elegant, but it's very simple and effective.

Does the file libintl-8.dll belong to GIMP or mysys2/mingw64?

Oh this file
quasi-msys2/root/mingw64/bin/libintl-8.dll ?

contrast@cosmos:~/Applications$ fd -HI "libintl"
mc/envs/faceswap/lib/preloadable_libintl.so
mysys2_gegl/quasi-msys2/root/ucrt64/lib/libintl.dll.a
mysys2_gegl/quasi-msys2/root/ucrt64/lib/libintl.a
mysys2_gegl/quasi-msys2/root/ucrt64/include/libintl.h
mysys2_gegl/quasi-msys2/root/ucrt64/bin/libintl-8.dll
quasi-msys2/root/mingw64/bin/libintl-8.dll


Yeah I can try that, I thought you implied GIMP itself having its dlls swapped. I'm not asking my users to do surgery on GIMP

I just did what you said, made a back up of the original intl-8.dll, then cross compiled my starfield plugin, its spitting out an gui wine error but it compiles. Now the question is, does it work?

You asked about dependencies, but I'm not a programmer.
This much I know:
The libintl-8 file is installed as a gettex component that is required to be installed before compiling Gimp.
Sometimes (fortunately very rarely) there are errors in new source versions.

Tell me if the starfield plugin works on 3.2, it was compiled with the new libintl-8

It doesn't register in the 'original' Gimp-3.0.8\3.2 Win10 menu.
After replacing the libintl-8.dll version, it works correctly.

I compiled starfield using libintl-8.dll

What directory do you have `libintl-8.dll` in?

I have it in
home/contrast/Applications/quasi-msys2/root/mingw64/bin/libintl-8.dll

c:\msys64\mingw64\bin\libintl-8.dll

I thought changing that file with your libintl-8.dll that you posted on GimpChat would fix it. I was confused, I swapped c:\msys64\mingw64\bin\libintl-8.dll instead of GIMPs.


Anyhow on My Github I just link to his exe installer for my plugins

Thanks! But i actually found it here.
https://rasterflow.io/pages/get-rasterflow

This will work on Windows. Notice how a single plugin is now 2MB! it has to static link an entire gettext library just to work on Windows now.



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