Setting up Inkscape development environment on Windows.

A record of solutions to issues that were resolved to setup Inkscape development environment on Windows.

In case you are looking for the link to get started, here it is.

1. build error: invalid option –lgomp for gc++

error:
Make error line 440: LINK problem:
c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe:cannot
find -lgomp
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

solution link: Sourceforge

solution:
Maybe 'default options' is not sufficient when installing TDM-GCC 4.5.2?
This thread mentions to choose "option "TDM-GCC recommended, All Packages" in the
TDM-GCC 4.5.1 installer".


2. msgfmt error: system could not find file specified

error:
##### Target : i18n
> ##### compile gettext .po files to .mo
> --- i18n / msgfmt
> ============ cmd ============
> msgfmt po/am.po -o build/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/inkscape.mo
> =============================
> Make error line 453: executeCommand : could not create process : The system
> cann
> ot find the file specified.
> Make error line 453: <msgfmt> problem:

Solution link: Sourceforge

solution:
This looks like a problem with Gettext. Check whether you can run the msgfmt program from the console. If you can't, it means you don't have the devlibs bin/ directory in your PATH. Did you run mingwenv.bat in the console before running btool?