1 MyPaint - drawing program with dynamic brushes for graphic tablets
3 The license is described in the file LICENSE.
4 Documentation can be found within the program and on the homepage:
6 A list of contributors can be found in the about dialog.
17 # scons prefix=/usr/local install
21 # scons prefix=/usr/local install --clean
23 Install (for packagers):
25 $ scons prefix=/usr --install-sandbox=path/to/sandbox
27 (NOTE: the sandbox location must be located under the
28 current working directory. The above installs the main
29 launch script as "./path/to/sandbox/usr/bin/mypaint".
30 Use a symlink if that's too limiting.)
33 Required: pygtk, python, swig, gtk, numpy, pycairo(>=1.4), libpng
35 Debian users can fetch these dependencies by running:
37 # apt-get install g++ python-dev libglib2.0-dev python-numpy \
38 swig scons gettext libpng12-dev
40 Recommended: a pressure sensitive input device (graphic tablet)
43 Take care to update the icon theme cache for your $prefix if you're
44 installing mypaint to a location which has one of these files already. If
45 you install new icons, any existing icon cache must be updated too,
46 otherwise MyPaint won't be able to find its icons even if it looks in the
47 right place. For example for an install into /usr (which has one on most
48 systems), you should run
50 $ gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolor
51 $ chmod a+r /usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache
53 after installation to ensure that the cache is up to date. Scons won't
54 do this for you because the cache file is optional.
56 If you install to /usr/local, you may need to run this instead:
58 $ gtk-update-icon-cache --ignore-theme-index /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor
63 NOTE: This is still very experimental.
64 If you'd much rather simply have a semi-recent pre-build version of MyPaint for Windows,
65 downloads should be available on the website.
67 NOTE: This page might contain more up to date instructions:
68 http://opensourcepack.blogspot.com/2009/08/building-mypaint-in-windows.html
70 To build on a Windows platform there are a handful of things you need to setup before building.
71 As the very first step you should make sure you have the following things installed correctly on your system:
76 Python 2.5 (or possibly above)
88 Numeric ( This is the predecessor to Numpy, and dependency might depend on your choice of other libs - you might actually not need it )
90 When everything is installed you will most likely have to set the following Environmet Variables under Windows.
91 These will naturally need to reflect the way you installed the above mentioned tools and libs.
92 The variables and example values are given here:
94 PATH = "C:\MinGW\bin;C:\GTK\bin;C:\swig;C:\Python25;C:\Python25\Scripts;"
95 PYTHONPATH = "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages"
96 PKG_CONFIG_PATH = "C:\Python25\Lib\pkgconfig"
98 ( The following is handy for debugging purpose, but should only be use when needed - NOT required ! )
101 Along the line you will most likely also have to make the missing ".pc" files for pkg-config.
102 These should be put in one of the locations specified in PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
103 Here you should have the following files:
111 If they do not exist and are not found elsewhere in PKG_CONFIG_PATH, you have to write them yourself.
112 These files are rather simple, containing only a few lines.
113 If you're not able to create these yourself by trial'n'error, try Google some info on the format.
115 Fortunately once everything is set up building should be a smooth process.
116 Open the Command Prompt and simply follow these two steps:
118 "cd \mypaint-trunk\" To go the dir containing the downloaded source code.
119 "scons" Start up SCons and have it read the SConstruct script.
120 This is the where 'mypaint.dll' and 'mypaint.exe' (hopefully) are build.
122 Now the remaining problem is to boil it all down to a reasonable clean set of files.
123 At this stage you will have to experiment a lot - and again utilize your trial'n'error skills.
124 Some of the files you'll most likely need to find are:
126 ( in no particular order )
128 libglib-2.0-0.dll, libgobject-2.0-0.dll, libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll,
129 libgmodule-2.0-0.dll, libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll, libgthread-2.0-0.dll,
130 libcairo-2.dll, libpangocairo-1.0-0.dll, libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll,
131 libatk-1.0-0.dll, libgio-2.0-0.dll, libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll
132 libpng12-0.dll, libpango-1.0-0.dll,
134 zlib1.dll, jpeg62.dll, libtiff3.dll,
137 python25.dll, MSVCR71.dll, w9xpopen.exe,
139 numpy.core.umath.pyd, numpy.lib._compiled_base.pyd,
140 numpy.core.multiarray.pyd, numpy.core.scalarmath.pyd,
141 numpy.fft.fftpack_lite.pyd, numpy.core._sort.pyd,
142 numpy.random.mtrand.pyd, numpy.linalg.lapack_lite.pyd,
144 gtk._gtk.pyd, gobject._gobject.pyd, cairo._cairo.pyd
146 This stage is just insanity for you perfectinists out there. Noone will mind if you skip this step.
147 Likely MyPaint will run just fine, finding these files elsewhere on your system.
148 BUT! if it turns out it doesn't or if you need to run MyPaint on other systems than the one you build it on,
149 you'll still have to have these files in the directory you keep 'mypaint.exe'.
153 PS: If you give up along the way there should be semi-recent builds available on the website.
154 PPS: Much in line with all the shared libs metioned above,
155 the exe file is build to import two files 'python25.zip' and 'site-packages.zip'.
156 These files were ment to hold any addictional python scripts needed.
157 Examine the files from the recent Windows builds on the website for reference.