Re: Fw: [Synfig-user] Cannot Get Synfig to Compile

[Paul W. <pa...@bo...>]

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 07:46 -0700, Daniel Fort wrote:

> > Have you had any responses to your Synfig e-mails?
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> I don't think that any of my posts were answered--the list doesn't seem=20
> to be getting the developer's attention. However, posting on the bug=20
> tracker seems to get some attention.

Darco (the original developer) doesn't have enough time for his many
projects (inc synfig). So he recruited me to help fix some bugs and feed
patches from the community into the project:

http://www.synfig.com/2006/01/26/new-developer/

I haven't been on this list until the past day or so though.
Unfortunately I've been slightly busy too :) You can usually ping me on
irc to get my attention though.

> > I've not attempted compiling Synfig - but I've been on
> > this list since Synfig was released.
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> I'm an early subscriber too. I have had tried building the pieces and=20
> kept encountering build errors--some having to do with being on a 64-bit=20
> system, others were pretty much general bugs.

As mentioned on the download page, all the 64-bit build issues should
now be fixed. This was due to patches from the debian amd64 porters.
synfigstudio was only just fixed in the past day or two because it
finally got into debian. It would have been nice to receive a patch from
gentoo or somewhere else, but it didn't happen.=20

> Within the last 12 hours someone answered one of my bug reports and=20
> fixed a problem with ETL in the SVN repository.

That would be me :)

> Now I've got all the pieces working with the latest SVN sources.

Good to hear! Please post any patches you make in the tracker and tell
us about it on irc if you want a quick commit.

> The program is finally launching so I guess it is time to start
> figuring out how this is supposed to work!

There are some user-contributed documentation and darco's tutorial on
the wiki. Also, drop by the irc channel (#synfig on freenode).=20

> By the way, I'm also following a similar program called KToon,=20
> http://ktoon.toonka.com
> and it has been under quite active development--check out their=20
> documentation on how to build the SVN sources.

jahshaka is another thing you might be interested in. Hmm, I should
organise my list of links to similar free software projects.

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bye,
pabs

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