This is the brush library used by MyPaint. A number of other painting programs use it too.

License: ISC, see COPYING for details.

• All configurations and builds:
  • json-c (>= 0.11)
  • C compiler, make etc.
• Most configurations (all except --disable-introspection --without-glib):
  • GObject-Introspection
  • GLib
• When building from git (developer package names vary by distribution):
  • Python
  • autotools
  • intltool
  • gettext
• For --enable-gegl (GIMP does not require this):
  • GEGL + BABL

On recent Debian-like systems, you can type the following to get started with a standard configuration:

# apt install -y build-essential
# apt install -y libjson-c-dev libgirepository1.0-dev libglib2.0-dev

When building from git:

# apt install -y python autotools-dev intltool gettext libtool

You might also try using your package manager:

# apt build-dep mypaint # will get additional deps for MyPaint (GUI)
# apt build-dep libmypaint  # may not exist; included in mypaint

The following works on a minimal CentOS 7 installation:

# yum install -y gcc gobject-introspection-devel json-c-devel glib2-devel

When building from git, you'll want to add:

# yum install -y git python autoconf intltool gettext libtool

You might also try your package manager:

# yum builddep libmypaint

Works with a fresh OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Docker image:

# zypper install gcc13 gobject-introspection-devel libjson-c-devel glib2-devel

When building from git:

# zypper install git python311 autoconf intltool gettext-tools libtool

Package manager:

# zypper install libmypaint0

MyPaint and libmypaint benefit dramatically from autovectorization and other compiler optimizations. You may want to set your CFLAGS before compiling (for gcc):

$ export CFLAGS='-Ofast -ftree-vectorize -fopt-info-vec-optimized -march=native -mtune=native -funsafe-math-optimizations -funsafe-loop-optimizations'

The traditional setup works just fine.

$ ./autogen.sh    # Only needed when building from git.
$ ./configure
# make install
# ldconfig

We don't ship a configure script in our git repository. If you're building from git, you have to kickstart the build environment with:

$ git clone https://github.com/mypaint/libmypaint.git
$ cd libmypaint
$ ./autogen.sh

This script generates configure from configure.ac, after running a few checks to make sure your build environment is broadly OK. It also regenerates certain important generated headers if they need it.

Folks building from a release tarball don't need to do this: they will have a configure script from the start.

$ ./configure
$ ./configure --prefix=/tmp/junk/example

There are several MyPaint-specific options. These can be shown by running

$ ./configure --help

$ make

Once MyPaint is built, you can run the test suite and/or install it.

$ make check

This runs all the unit tests.

# make install

Uninstall libmypaint with make uninstall.

Make sure that pkg-config can see libmypaint before trying to build with it.

$ pkg-config --list-all | grep -i mypaint

If it's not found, you'll need to add the relevant pkgconfig directory to the pkg-config search path. For example, on CentOS, with a default install:

# sh -c "echo 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig' >>/etc/environment"

Make sure ldconfig can see libmypaint as well

# ldconfig -p |grep -i libmypaint

If it's not found, you'll need to add the relevant lib directory to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH:

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
# sh -c "echo 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib' >>/etc/environment

Alternatively, you may want to enable /usr/local for libraries. Arch and Redhat derivatives:

# sh -c "echo '/usr/local/lib' > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/usrlocal.conf"
# ldconfig

The MyPaint project welcomes and encourages participation by everyone. We want our community to be skilled and diverse, and we want it to be a community that anybody can feel good about joining. No matter who you are or what your background is, we welcome you.

Please note that MyPaint is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

Please see the file CONTRIBUTING.md for details of how you can begin contributing.

The distribution release can be generated with:

$ make dist

And it should be checked before public release with:

$ make distcheck

Contribute translations here: https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/mypaint/.

The list of languages is maintained in po/LINGUAS. Currently this file lists all the languages we have translations for. It can be regenerated with:

$ ls po/*.po | sed 's$^.*po/\([^.]*\).po$\1$' | sort > po/LINGUAS

You can also disable languages by removing them from the list if needed.

A list of files where localizable strings can be found is maintained in po/POTFILES.in.

You can update the .po files when translated strings in the code change using:

$ cd po && make update-po

When the results of this are pushed, Weblate translators will see the new strings immediately.

Further documentation can be found in the libmypaint wiki: https://github.com/mypaint/libmypaint/wiki.

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