Well, I think you’d be better off thinking about porting to qt. But I don’t really know enough about what that would involve to be saying such things.
Or else stick with what you are currently using. After getting the correct commands to type I installed json-glib using meson without any problems on Gentoo. But on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, even with the correct commands I’ve encountered two problems:
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The version of meson shipping with Tumbleweed is 0.46 (get it? This stuff hasn’t even reach 1.0, which would presumably be the first “deemed stable” version of meson). But json-glib wants 0.48 on OpenSUSE, not sure why, I cloned from the same repository on the same day on both Gentoo and OpenSUSE. So my attempt to build json-glib failed on OpenSUSE at the
meson --prefix=$PREFIX ..command, though it succeeded on Gentoo - @patdavid - why is the forum software turning my two dots into three dots? -
So I used the OpenSUSE software search to locate a repository that provides meson 0.48 and installed it and tried again. This time the build failed on the “ninja install” command with the error that somehow OpenSUSE has the wrong libselinux library.
Which I don’t even have selinux installed at all on Gentoo, so there is probably a way to tell meson to not use selinux on OpenSUSE when installing something in a prefix. But I don’t know how to pass such an option - if indeed such an option can be passed in such a gnome-centric software as meson or json-glib.
So my attempt to update my instructions for building GIMP from source has come to a dead end. It works on Gentoo, not on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and I simply do not want to invest any more time in this venture.
If someone really can supply the missing information in an immediately useable form (type exactly this, do exactly that), I’ll continue my efforts to update my how to build GIMP page. In the meantime, it’s just not worth it to me to continue beating my head against this particular brick wall.