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I have been trying to compile GIMP for the last few days from source and I am having an issue with libmypaint.

I have read the REAMDME, and install all dependencies via MacPort. The autogen.sh file completes, but when I run the ./configure, I get the

following line of code:

checking for libintl.h... yes
checking for ngettext in libc... no
checking for bindtextdomain in -lintl... no
checking if -liconv is needed to use gettext... 
checking for ngettext in -lintl... no
checking for library containing dgettext... no
configure: error: no dgettext

I am on OSX, and have installed the following packages via macports:

sudo port install gtk2 gegl-0.3 babl atk fontconfig freetype harfbuzz gdk-pixbuf2 glib2 bzip2 libpng xz zlib aalib ghostscript jasper libmng librsvg xpm openexr swig scons json-c py27-numpy py27-scipy py27-pyobjc py27-py2app py27-macholib py27-modulegraph py27-altgraph py27-pyobjc-cocoa lcms2 py27-gobject3 hicolor-icon-theme php71 mhash php_select php71-gettext gobject-introspection intltool automake autoconf libcxx

Any help will be appreciated

Regards

Brendan Bosman
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The reason i wanted to install libmypaint was to compile gimp from source code. to install gimp is difficult as it require a lot of packages. It also did not recognize installs in /opt/local. This forced me to install the packages manually and they all resided in usr/local. Duplication was the order and this caused issues with compiling libmypaint.

It seems I resolved issue, after several tries. I am currently on OSX 10.12, with Xcode 7.3.1. I had installed a lot of MacPort packages, Brew packages and other random source code, thus my /opt/local and /user/local and brew folder was cluttered. PKG-Config was not installed or not visible, also causing a few issues.

I decided to do the following:

  1. Remove content in opt/local, /usr/local and remove all brew and MacPort packages.
  2. Deleted all off MacPort and Brew
  3. I decided that my preferred packages manager is MacPort(just because I know it better. Brew is good, but I will not advise in installing packages manually. It takes time :))
  4. Installed just the bare minimum packages for libmypaint to compile using port:

sudo port selfupdate

sudo port install expat libiconv ncurses gettext

sudo port install autoconf automake cmake libtool zlib pcre libffi glib2 curl curl-ca-bundle libarchive libxml2 xz lzo2 intltool pkgconfig

sudo port install json-c

I got libmypaint to compile.

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  • Is /opt/local supposed to be a standard location for development files? You might be expected to set up environment variables - if macports puts stuff there, it might provide a script to do that for you. – Michael Schumacher Oct 18 '16 at 15:56