We were building it to add the patch glib!2020, but it has now been
backported in MSYS2 package:
https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/9154
This was about the most infamous bug #913 for very slow file dialogs on
Windows when some drives are disconnected, or with slow/non-accessible
network drives or even fake floppy drives created in the Bios.
Similarly we also wanted glib!2205 and glib!2210 for bug #6780 about
GIMP crashing unexpectedly when images are opened in other (apparently
unrelated applications). I had not updated our build scripts yet, but
anyway, it got backport to the MSYS2 package first, then even to GLib
2.68.4 which has been recently released (and bumped in MSYS2 as well).
See: https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/9283
So let's rely again on MSYS2 package!
Same as MSYS2, add a patch to fix keyboard input when using IMEs (which
should hopefully fix#1603). Note that this patch should be in the next
release.
Also remove the Windows Pointer Input Stack support as it is in 3.24.30.
Finally apply the patch from gtk!3661 for testing (instead of the patch
from gtk!3275), as it is supposed to fix#5475. This is the reason why
we still build our own GTK3.
- libwmf patch for issue #4061 is applied upstream (libwmf). Even though
no new libwmf release happened, the MSYS2 package applied the patch to
libwmf 0.2.12. So it's in our installer. Thanks to lillolollo for
staying on top of things, as usual.
Cf. https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/pull/6977
- glib permission issue (#4594 about GIMP preventing the third-party
software Spotify from starting) is included since glib 2.67.6/2.68.0.
Since MSYS2 uses glib 2.68.2, it's all good.
- patch for deprecated GTK+2.24 was kept in `master` repo mostly as a
reminder of having to deal with issue #1082 (former bug 780979) about
transparent windows from other software interfering with GIMP. This
was fixed as gtk!2767 which is available since GTK 3.24.27. MSYS2 uses
GTK 3.24.29 to this day.
Note that this patch is still relevant in the GIMP 2.10 series (hence
in gimp-2-10 branch), not in the current GIMP 2.99 series.
- Adding a patch sent to me by Sylvie Alexandre meant to help aalib
build on MSYS2 for Windows 32 and 64-bit.
- Additionally, add an additional patch from myself because it was still
not building properly.
- Also update the config.guess|sub files because the original ones (from
2001!) were just too old and not properly recognizing the host mingw
system (especially the 64-bit one apparently) in the MSYS2 CI jobs of
GIMP.
- Finally regenerate the whole aclocal/libtoolize/autoconf/automake
build system because these old files just don't play nice with recent
autotools though the source files still regenerate fine (despite with
some warnings, but nothing blocking).
- Add crt-git dependency because libws2_32 is in there.
This is a patch for issue #913, the infamous "non-existent floppy drive"
or other unreachable network or unmounted drives. Well at least it
*should* fix the issue, but GLib developers are hoping we could test. So
let's add this in there for our next Windows package.
Our installer use Msys2 packages when possible. And Msys2 repository
provides version 0.3.9, released on March 2, which contains our patches.
No need for them here anymore, no need to make custom builds.
Previous OpenBlas patch fixed the crash with Sophos (see reports #3633
and #4246) but created a huge slowdown of startup because of a timeout
change and most likely OpenBLAS being loaded at startup during the
various verifications.
A new patch has been merged upstream to lower this timeout to something
more reasonable. Reporters confirmed GIMP now runs fine (neither crashes
nor very long startups).
See: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/pull/2339
Actual patch contributor wants confidentiality to avoid leaking
proprietary information or whatever (I am not sure either what to be
scared of as it's all good and harmless to me, but let's respect the
request). See also #4246 for more details.
Though the bug was mostly fixed, it seems to still happen on Windows XP,
where apparently no content type had been registered for SVG.
GTK+ developers don't seem too keen to patch GTK+ 2.24 for a platform
which they don't support anymore.
Also if not mistaken, GIMP does not officially support Windows XP
anymore either. A patch though has already been provided by Edward E.
and it really doesn't look like it could break anything since it just
adds a last "else if" when everything else failed (and inside a #ifdef
affecting only WIN32 builds).
So let's just add it in our builds at least. We still don't have support
for it, but I see no reason to just refuse a minor patch which won't
break anything else.
... interfere with GIMP UI events
Add a GTK+ patch to ignore top-level transparent windows when
looking for the top-level GDK window at a certain pointer location,
in the Win32 GDK backend.
