Confused

[funnnyfarm]

My machine is a Mac running OS Sierra all up to date, I use Gimp 2.6.18 for Mac. I am not a computer guy. I am trying to open a texture.file to manipulate it. I have the plugin (gimp-dds-2.0.2) but the installation file does not make sense to me.
                     
Installation
=======================================

1. Type 'make' to build the plugin
2. Type 'make install' to install the plugin. By default the plugin will be
installed in your GIMP user plugin directory ($HOME/.gimp-2.2/plug-ins).  If
you want to install the plugin system-wide, as root you must manually copy the
plugin to the system GIMP plugin directory.

I don't know where to start. Thanks funnnyfarm

[rich2005]

(04-06-2017, 02:29 PM)funnnyfarm Wrote: My machine is a Mac running OS Sierra all up to date, I use Gimp 2.6.18 for Mac. I am not a computer guy. I am trying to open a texture.file to manipulate it. I have the plugin (gimp-dds-2.0.2) but the installation file does not make sense to me.
                     
Installation
=======================================

1. Type 'make' to build the plugin
2. Type 'make install' to install the plugin. By default the plugin will be
installed in your GIMP user plugin directory ($HOME/.gimp-2.2/plug-ins).  If
you want to install the plugin system-wide, as root you must manually copy the
plugin to the system GIMP plugin directory.

I don't know where to start. Thanks funnnyfarm

Sorry but you are not going to get very far if you need to ask that question

That is the procedure for compiling a plugin from code in linux, might be the same in OSX but I doubt that it will be that simple.

Not many (none) Mac users here at present, A quick look at what is available and you might be better off changing the version of Gimp you use to one from here

http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/News/News.html
which if you look at the bottom of this page say that the dds plugin is incorporated.
http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Photo_editing.html

[funnnyfarm]

Sorry my version of gimp is 2.8.18. The dds Unix executable file is in  /Applications/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins. But it is not in /Users/funnnyfarmhomefolder/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.8/plug-ins. The file I am trying to open is a texture file, I change the file type to dds. And dragging that file to Gimp. Shouldn't that open the file? thanks funnnyfarm

[Ofnuts]

(04-06-2017, 10:26 PM)funnnyfarm Wrote: Sorry my version of gimp is 2.8.18. The dds Unix executable file is in  /Applications/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins. But it is not in /Users/funnnyfarmhomefolder/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.8/plug-ins. The file I am trying to open is a texture file, I change the file type to dds. And dragging that file to Gimp. Shouldn't that open the file? thanks funnnyfarm

• Locate your Gimp profile. It should contain a file called "pluginrc".
  
• Open this file with a text editor.
  
• Search the lines containing "(extension". Is one of them mentioning "dds"?
  

[rich2005]

(04-06-2017, 10:26 PM)funnnyfarm Wrote: Sorry my version of gimp is 2.8.18. The dds Unix executable file is ...

This is a Mac plugin, that came with your Mac version of Gimp - Yes/No AFAIK plugins for Mac are very version specific.

Quote:The file I am trying to open is a texture file, I change the file type to dds. And dragging that file to Gimp. Shouldn't that open the file?

Not if it is a non dds file. If not too big can you zip it and post or for a large file, zip and use something like dropbox or just post a link to where you got it originally.

[funnnyfarm]

I have the zip file but don't know how to send it. Below is what is in the file. thanks funnnyfarm

Index of gimp-dds-2.0.2
Name Size Date Modified

COPYING
17.6 kB 11/28/07, 3:50:08 PM
dds.c
7.6 kB 11/28/07, 3:50:08 PM
dds.h
3.8 kB 11/28/07, 3:50:08 PM
ddsplugin.h
1.4 kB 11/28/07, 3:50:08 PM
ddsread.c
24.8 kB 11/28/07, 3:50:08 PM
ddswrite.c
48.1 kB 11/28/07, 9:00:44 PM
dxt_tables.h
11.2 kB 11/28/07, 6:07:54 PM
dxt.c
31.7 kB 11/28/07, 6:06:33 PM
dxt.h
1.2 kB 11/28/07, 3:50:08 PM
endian.h
2.1 kB 11/28/07, 3:50:08 PM
INSTALL
1.2 kB 11/28/07, 3:50:08 PM
LICENSE
866 B 11/28/07, 3:50:08 PM
Makefile
99 B 11/28/07, 3:50:08 PM
Makefile.linux
672 B 11/28/07, 5:06:25 PM
Makefile.win32
700 B 11/28/07, 5:06:37 PM
mipmap.c
13.9 kB 11/28/07, 3:50:08 PM
mipmap.h
1.8 kB 11/28/07, 3:50:08 PM
mktables.c
2.6 kB 11/28/07, 6:07:47 PM
README
844 B 11/28/07, 3:50:08 PM

[rich2005]

(04-07-2017, 02:05 PM)funnnyfarm Wrote: I have the zip file but don't know how to send it. Below is what is in the file. thanks funnnyfarm

Index of gimp-dds-2.0.2
Name Size Date Modified
---snip----

That is the source code used to compile the plugin. It is not going to be easy for you to compile that in OSX so back to the previous suggestion to replace your exisiting Gimp with one that comes with the dds loader pre-compiled and AFAIK the only one is the version of Gimp from:

http://gimp.lisanet.de