[Inkscape-devel] Newbie to Developer Process under Windows

Hi List,

I'm just starting up with the project and want to run under XP. I have been advised that VC++, which I would have preferred, is too difficult to get going.

So I started with the 'Compiling Inkscape for the Win32 Platform' document and cannot unpack a downloaded copy of gtk26 with 7-zip. I get the error 'this is not a supported archive' with both gtk copies on the website using either of the 2 available versions of 7-zip.

Downloading with IE produces different size files from using Firefox so I'm guessing it's a download problem.

Can anyone point me to an alternative source of the gtk26 library, perhaps in a normal zip format? TIA Douglas Neale