How do you add RefocusIt to Gimp?

Question

I'm trying to compile Gimp with a special plugin called Refocus-It. I know that I need to compile something. Can somebody please explain what needs to be done?

I would like to accomplish this using the Code::Blocks, but I think it's for C++ only, so I downloaded Eclipse, also, just in case. In other words, I'm on Windows.... So the 'use ./config' mentioned in the Install file in the source code isn't translating meaning to me.

I did try reformatting my system and using Linux. Unfortunately, even with some help from IRC, I couldn't figure out if I was compiling correctly. If I was successful in any of my many attempts, I couldn't figure out how to start Gimp after I did 'compilation'. So, I couldn't test my work at all.

Please advise. Thank you.

Answer 1

This plugin project seems to have been abandoned. The last version 0.9 dates from 2003, and bug reports from 2004 and 2005 were never answered and are still open. You should be aware of the fact that versions numbered below 1.0 are beta versions.

You could try to get in touch with the developer of this plug-in, Ernst Lippe, at [email protected], but I do not think that you will get any answer.

Sorry to be negative, but I really think you should look for for another plugin that can do the job.

Answer 2

I was able to install it and automate the install process. Please take a look at install-refocus script at Automatic Broccoli.

EDIT (Thanks @davidpostill and @scott for the sugestions)

The basic idea was to download and extract the refocus code (located at SourceForge), download a port of refocus for Gimp 2.x and extract over the previous folder, set the GIMPTOOL environment variable to the gimptool-2.0 path, add the mathematical library to the list of libraries to be linked, run configure, correct the call to GIMPTOOL located at src/Makefile and finally run make install-bin. The script code follows :

#!/usr/bin/env bash

## Thanks Don Rozenberg for major changes to refocus 0.9.0 to make it compile for GIMP 2.x !!
## (http://www.gimpusers.com/mailmsg.php?42F58785.5090109%40mcn.org)

destFolder=/tmp

function download() {
  cd $2 && wget -O - $1 | tar xzf -
  local exitCode=$?
  cd -
  return $exitCode
}

function cleanup() {
  rm -rf ${refocusPath} ${refocusGimp2Path}
}

## Add -lm at the end to avoid floor@@GLIBC_2.2.5 compilation ERROR
## (https://stackoverflow.com/a/10274645/1085978 and https://github.com/xmlroff/xmlroff/issues/1)
export LIBS="-lm $LIBS"
export GIMPTOOL=${GIMPTOOL:-`which gimptool-2.0`}
refocusPath=${destFolder}/refocus-0.9.0
refocusGimp2Path=${destFolder}/refocus-0.9.0_gimp2_rozen


cleanup
download https://sourceforge.net/projects/refocus/files/latest/download ${destFolder} \
  && download  http://page.sourceforge.net/refocus-0.9.0_gimp2_rozen.tgz ${destFolder} \
  && cp -R ${refocusGimp2Path}/* ${refocusPath} \
  && cd ${refocusPath} && ./configure \
  && sed 's/@GIMPTOOL@ --install/${GIMPTOOL} --install/' -i src/Makefile \
  && make install-bin
cleanup