Apparently, you invoke gcg as follows: gcg -I -o colormap_dialog.c colormap_dialog.gc The README I found follows, but seems to be out of date: GCG - docs forthcoming (hopefully) GCG is under development, it doesn't do much of anything sensible yet. What little it does, you can test with: gcg -t gimpimageT.h -f gimpimage.h -p gimpimageP.h -s gimpimage.c gimpimage.def