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-== Building VIPS and nip2 for Windows ==
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-These instructions are for building vips and nip2 in a cross-compiler from Linux. It's also possible to build the packages directly on Windows, but you're more on your own there.
-=== Installing MinGW ===
-First, you need to install [http://mingw.org MinGW]. Ubuntu 10.10 includes a package for this that works for me. Older Ubuntus have broken mingw packages and you'll need to make your own.
-=== Installing jhbuild ===
-Next, install [http://live.gnome.org/Jhbuild jhbuild]. This is a tool for automatically patching and building sets of software from source. Don't actually build anything with it, just do a basic install.
-=== Download the vips build system ===
-We have a set of scripts and config files on github:
- git clone git://github.com/jcupitt/build-win32.git
-Have a look at the README, set a few variables (you'll need to tell it where to find the cross-compiler, for example), and enter:
-<pre>
-./unpack.sh
-jhbuild --file=jhbuildrc --moduleset=vips.modules build nip2
-./package-nip2.sh
-</pre>
-and you should have your own <code>nip2-7.x.x-setup.exe</code>.
-It can build just the libraries as well, have a look at the README.