How To Compile A Plugin For Gimp Mac

Many PS filters work in the GIMP on Win32 (or so I've been told) but none work in the GIMP under Linux. I'm curious as to how many photo nuts out there would actually consider using the GIMP (free software) and possibly under Linux (free software) if there were more quality commercial (not necessarily free) plugins available for the GIMP that worked in Linux (or *BSD or Slowaris or [insert favorite X11 *nix here]) I suspect currently the demand would not be *that* great, but I'd like to check on what it is now, as the new Gimp is really very good - good enough imho for many hobbyists - just lacking in some of the necessary work flow plugins that some people really like. I am not a GIMP developer, I do package (rpm) Linux software and contribute to what gets into some distro's, and have built some custom in-house distributions from scratch.

Motivation GIMP 2.8-RC1 didn't make it into Ubuntu 12.04 yet, so if you want to use it, you will have to compile it yourself or use a PPA repository.

But I would *really* love it if I didn't have to boot Windows (or Mac OS) to use a $$$ product - when the only thing the GIMP is missing for my level of photography is a few plugins. I'm curious how many others are in my position (I'd rather buy new lenses than new versions of PS ). Android studio emulator not working mac. I'm not whining for anyone to use it. I use photoshop because there are things the Gimp doesn't do, or doesn't do easily. Please do not assume that because I'm a penguin, I'm whining.

-=- What I am looking for is how many people are truly interested in the GIMP as an alternative to PS. If you had read my post you would have seen that.

My primary reasons of interest are lower cost to me (Photoshop ain't free) and it runs on my favorite platform (I use Linux on the Desktop - Gnome to be specific). Linux market share on the desktop is small, hence there will be little demand for GIMP native plugins (when many win32 PS plugins work in win32 GIMP thus reducing demand for plugin developers to port to GIMP). But things are changing and usage of Linux on the Desktop is increasing. This post was intended to try and get some feel of how many *photographers* are interested in native GIMP plugins.

It was in no way a whine. So excuse the flame, but take your 'stop whining' attitude and pipe it to /dev/null. I agree that Michael was not whining. Here's a different perspective: When will Adobe port photoshop to Linux? I would give anything to become Microsoft-free.

I do not, however, want to give up Photoshop. The conflict is unbearable. If a significant number of Photographer/Computer nuts would jump on the Linux bandwagon, then the GIMP would fairly quicklymatch Photoshop and Adobe would have to do **something**. With OSX now being Unix-based, Photoshop for Linux cannot be that big a deal. Watch what Microsoft does when biggies like Adobe start supporting Linux. With OSX now being Unix-based, Photoshop for Linux cannot be that big a deal. Photoshop in OS X uses the Aqua gui, not X11 - so some porting would need to be done.