"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live
for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine"
John Galt in "Atlas Shrugged", by Ayn Rand
AUTHOR
The author is magick@mystic.es.dupont.com. This software is NOT
shareware. However, I am interested in who might be using it.
Please consider sending me a picture postcard of the area where you
live. Send postcards to
ImageMagick Studio
P.O. Box 40
Landenberg, PA 19350
USA
I'm also interested in receiving currency or stamps from around the
world for my collection.
AVAILABILITY
ImageMagick is available as
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-5.4.4.tar.gz
ImageMagick client executables are available for some platforms. See
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/binaries
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/mac
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/win2k
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/vms
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/linux
I want ImageMagick to be of high quality, so if you encounter a
problem I will investigate. However, be sure you are using the most
recent version from ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick
before submitting any bug reports or suggestions. Report any
problems via the web-based reporting facility at
http://www.simplesystems.org/ImageMagick/bugs.html.
WWW
The official ImageMagick WWW page is
http://www.imagemagick.org/
To use display as your external image viewer, edit the global
mail-cap file or your personal mail-cap file .mailrc (located at your
home directory) and put this entry:
image/*; display %s
MAILING LIST
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ImageMagick. To subscribe send the message
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UNIX/Cygwin COMPILATION
Note:
Platform specific notes regarding specific operating systems may be
found in the PLATFORMS.txt file. This file (README.txt) provides
generic instructions which work in most common cases.
Type:
gzip -dc ImageMagick-5.4.4.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd ImageMagick-5.4.4
If you do not have gunzip(1), it is available as
ftp.gnu.org:pub/gnu/gzip-1.2.4.shar.
Use 'configure' to automatically configure, build, and install
ImageMagick.
If you are willing to accept configure's default options, type:
./configure
and watch the configure script output to verify that it finds
everything that you think it should. If it does not, then adjust your
environment so that it does.
If you are not happy with configure's choice of compiler, compilation
flags, or libraries, you can give `configure' initial values for
variables by specifying them on the configure command line, e.g.:
./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix
The configure variables you should be aware of are:
CC Name of C compiler (e.g. 'cc -Xa') to use
CXX Name of C++ compiler to use (e.g. 'CC')
CFLAGS Compiler flags (e.g. '-g -O2') to compile C code
CXXFLAGS Compiler flags (e.g. '-g -O2') to compile C++ code
CPPFLAGS Include paths (-I/somedir) to look for header files
LDFLAGS Library paths (-L/somedir) to look for libraries
Systems that support the notion of a library run-path may
require an additional argument in order to find shared
libraries at run time. For example, the Solaris linker
requires an argument of the form '-R/somedir', some Linux
systems will work with '-rpath /somedir', while some other
Linux systems who's gcc does not pass -rpath to the linker
require an argument of the form '-Wl,-rpath,/somedir'.
LIBS Extra libraries (-lsomelib) required to link
Any variable (e.g. CPPFLAGS or LDFLAGS) which requires a directory
path must specify an absolute path rather than a relative path.
By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
`/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc. You can specify an
installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving `configure' the
option `--prefix=PATH'.
Configure can usually find the X include and library files
automatically, but if it doesn't, you can use the `configure' options
`--x-includes=DIR' and `--x-libraries=DIR' to specify their
locations.
The configure script provides a number of ImageMagick specific
options. When disabling an option --disable-something is equivalent
to specifying --enable-something=no and --without-something is
equivalent to --with-something=no. The configure options are as
follows (execute 'configure --help' to see all options).
Optional Features:
--enable-prof enable 'prof' profiling support (default disabled)
--enable-gprof enable 'gprof' profiling support (default disabled)
--enable-gcov enable 'gcov' profiling support (default disabled)
--disable-largefile disable support for large (64 bit) file offsets
--enable-lzw enable LZW support (default disabled)
--disable-16bit-pixel disable 16 bit/quantum pixels (default enabled)
Optional Packages:
--with-modules enable support for dynamically loadable modules
--with-cache set pixel cache threshhold (defaults to available memory)
--without-threads disable threads support
--without-frozenpaths disable frozen delegate paths
--without-magick-plus-plus disable build/install of Magick++
--without-perl disable build/install of PerlMagick
or
--with-perl=PERL use specified Perl binary to configure PerlMagick
--with-perl-options=OPTIONS options to pass on command-line when
generating PerlMagick's Makefile from Makefile.PL
--without-bzlib disable BZLIB support
--without-dps disable Display Postscript support
--without-fpx disable FlashPIX support
--without-gslib disable Ghostscript library support
--with-hdf enable HDF support
--without-jbig disable JBIG support
--without-jpeg disable JPEG support
--without-jp2 disable JPEG v2 support
--without-lcms disable LCMS support
--without-mpeg2 disable MPEG support
--without-png disable PNG support
--without-tiff disable TIFF support
--without-ttf disable TrueType support
--without-wmf disable WMF support
--with-fontpath prepend to default font search path
--with-gs-font-dir directory containing Ghostscript fonts
--with-windows-font-dir directory containing MS-Windows fonts
--without-xml disable XML support
--without-zlib disable ZLIB support
--with-x use the X Window System
--with-share-path=DIR Alternate path to share directory
(default share/ImageMagick)
--with-libstdc=DIR use libstdc++ in DIR (for GNU C++)
ImageMagick options represent either features to be enabled,
disabled, or packages to be included in the build. When a feature is
enabled (via --enable-something), it enables code already present in
ImageMagick. When a package is enabled (via --with-something), the
configure script will search for it, and if is is properly installed
and ready to use (headers and built libraries are found by compiler)
it will be included in the build. The configure script is delivered
with all features disabled and all packages enabled. In general, the
only reason to disable a package is if a package exists but it is
unsuitable for the build (perhaps an old version or not compiled with
the right compilation flags).
Several configure options require special note:
o --enable-shared: the shared libraries are built. Shared
libraries are preferred because they allow programs to share
common code, making the individual programs much smaller. In
addition shared libraries are required in order for PerlMagick
to be dynamically loaded by an installed PERL (otherwise an
additional PERL (PerlMagick) must be installed. This option
is not the default because it is usually the case that all
libraries used by ImageMagick also be dynamic libraries if
ImageMagick itself is to be dynamically loaded (such as for
PerlMagick).
ImageMagick built with delegates (see MAGICK PLUG-INS below) can
pose additional challenges. You can build all the delegates
statically and link them into the ImageMagick shared library
(i.e. libMagick.so) or alternatively you can build the delegates
as shared libraries (some systems already have delegates
installed as shared libraries). Shared libraries compilation
flags differ from vendor to vendor (gcc's is -fPIC). However,
you must compile all shared library source with the same flag
(for gcc use -fPIC rather than -fpic). Accomplishing this
often requires hand-editing Makefiles.
If --enable-shared is not specified, a new PERL interpreter
(PerlMagick) is built which is statically linked against the
PerlMagick extension. This new interpreter is installed into the
same directory as the ImageMagick utilities. If --enable-shared is
specified, the PerlMagick extension is built as a dynamically
loadable object which is loaded into your current PERL interpreter
at run-time. Use of dynamically-loaded extensions is preferable
over statically linked extensions so --enable-shared should be
specified if possible.
o --disable-static: static archive libraries (with extension .a)
are not built. If you are building shared libraries, there is
little value to building static libraries. Reasons to build
static libraries include: 1) they can be easier to debug; 2) the
clients do not have external dependencies (i.e. libMagick.so); 3)
building PIC versions of the delegate libraries may take
additional expertise and effort; 4) you are unable to build
shared libraries.
o --with-modules: image format coders are built as loadable modules
which are installed in [prefix]/lib/ImageMagick/modules/coders.
Support for modules allows the formats supported by ImageMagick
to be extended by simply adding additional modules to the module
search path. The modules option is only available in conjunction
with --enable-shared. If --enable-shared is not also specified,
then support for modules is disabled.
o --enable-lzw: Unisys reportedly claims a patent on the algorithm
supporting LZW compression (e.g. used by GIF and TIFF). To avoid
possibly infringing on this patent, support for LZW is disabled
by default. With LZW support, GIF files written by ImageMagick
will be much larger than expected.
o --disable-16bit-pixel: By default ImageMagick represents images
internally using a sixteen-bit pixel quantum (the size of the red,
green, blue, and alpha pixel components). The definition
QuantumDepth=8 is applied when ImageMagick is built, allowing RGBA
values to range from 0 to 255 rather than 0 to 65535. Use of
sixteen-bit pixel quantums typically causes ImageMagick to run
about 30% slower then when it is built to support eight-bit pixel
quantums. Those who favor performance over output quality may
prefer to specify --disable-16bit-pixel.
o --without-magick-plus-plus: Disable building Magick++, the C++
application programming interface to ImageMagick. A suitable C++
compiler is required. Specify the CXX configure variable to
select the C++ compiler to use (default "g++"), and CXXFLAGS to
select the desired compiler opimization and debug flags
(default "-g -O2").
o --without-frozenpaths: By default, the configure script will
determine the location of all delegates (external programs) and
incorporate the full paths within the delegates.mgk file. This is
the default because it is assumed that the installer's
environment is appropriately configured and that the operation of
ImageMagick should not be subject to the end-user's environment.
However, if it is desirable to allow the end user to define
their own environment or possible that the end user's environment
does not match the installer's environment (e.g. for binary
distributions), --without-frozenpaths may be specified so that
only the delegate's name is included in the delegates.mgk file.
o --without-threads: By default, the ImageMagick library is compiled
with multi-thread support. If this is undesireable, then specify
--without-threads.
o --with-cache: Specify a different image pixel cache threshold
using the --with-cache option. When ImageMagick will have more
image pixel data in memory than the cache threshold setting,
additional images are cached on disk. Since memory is much faster
than disk, it is usually better to use memory rather than disk
for the pixel cache. The default cache threshold is 2047MB.
Small memory machines may want to decrease the threshold.
o --disable-largefile: By default, ImageMagick is compiled with
support for large (> 2GB on a 32-bit CPU) files if the operating
system supports large files. All applications which use the
ImageMagick library must then also include support for large
files. By disabling support for large files via
--disable-largefile, dependent applications do not require
special compilation options for large files in order to use the
library.
o --without-perl: By default, PerlMagick is conveniently compiled
and installed as part of ImageMagick's normal "configure", "make",
"make install" process.. When --without-perl is specified, you must
first install ImageMagick, change to the PerlMagick subdirectory,
build, and finally install PerlMagick. Note, PerlMagick is configured
even if --without-perl is specified. If the argument
--with-perl=/path/to/perl is supplied, then /path/to/perl will be
taken as the PERL interpreter to use. This is important in case
the 'perl' executable in your PATH is not PERL5, or is not the
PERL you want to use.
o --with-perl-options: The PerlMagick module is normally installed
using the Perl interpreter's installation PREFIX, rather than
ImageMagick's. If ImageMagick's installation prefix is not the
same as PERL's PREFIX, then you may find that PerlMagick's 'make
install' step tries to install into a directory tree that you
don't have write permissions to. This is common when PERL is
delivered with the operating system or on Internet Service
Provider (ISP) web servers. If you want PerlMagick to install
elsewhere, then provide a PREFIX option to PERL's configuration
step via "--with-perl-options=PREFIX=/some/place". Other options
accepted by MakeMaker are 'LIB', 'LIBPERL_A', 'LINKTYPE', and
'OPTIMIZE'. See the ExtUtils::MakeMaker(3) manual page for more
information on configuring PERL extensions.
o --without-x: By default, ImageMagick will use X11 libraries if
they are available. When --without-x is specified, use of X11 is
disabled. The display, animate, and import programs are not built
or installed. The remaining programs have reduced functionality
such as no access to X11 fonts (consider using Postscript or
TrueType fonts instead).
o --with-gs-font-dir: Specify the directory containing the
Ghostscript Postscript Type 1 font files (e.g. "n022003l.pfb") so
that they can be rendered using the FreeType library. If the font
files are installed using the default Ghostscript installation
paths (prefix/share/ghostscript/fonts), they should be discovered
automatically by configure and specifying this option is not
necessary. Specify this option if the Ghostscript fonts fail to be
located automatically, or the location needs to be overridden.
o --with-windows-font-dir: If configured under a Unix emulation
environment like Cygwin or mingw, configure should automatically
locate the MS-Windows system font directory. If configure is not
running under MS-Windows yet MS-Windows-compatible fonts are
available use --with-windows-font-dir=/path to specify the
directory where the fonts are installed.
Building under Cygwin
ImageMagick may be built under the Windows Win2K/'9X Cygwin
Unix-emulation environment which may be downloaded from
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/. Pre-compiled X11R6.4
libraries for Cygwin are available from
http://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/grads/win32/X11R6.4/. Use the
same procedure as for Unix except that building DLLs is not yet
supported so do not specify the --enable-shared option to
configure.
Dealing with configuration failures:
While configure is designed to ease installation of ImageMagick, it
often discovers problems that would otherwise be encountered later
when compiling ImageMagick. The configure script tests for headers
and libraries by executing the compiler (CC) with the specified
compilation flags (CFLAGS), pre-processor flags (CPPFLAGS), and
linker flags (LDFLAGS). Any errors are logged to the file
'config.log'. If configure fails to discover a header or library
please review this log file to determine why, however, please be
aware that *errors in the config.log are normal* because configure
works by trying something and seeing if it fails. An error in
config.log is only a problem if the test should have worked on your
system.. After taking corrective action, be sure to remove the
'config.cache' file before running configure so that configure will
re-inspect the environment rather than using cached values.
Common causes of configure failures are: 1) a delegate header is not
in the header include path (CPPFLAGS -I option); 2) a delegate
library is not in the linker search/run path (LDFLAGS -L/-R
option); 3) a delegate library is missing a function (old
version?); 4) compilation environment is faulty.
If all reasonable corrective actions have been tried and the
problem appears to be due to a flaw in the configure script, please
send a bug report to the configure script maintainer (currently
bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us). All bug reports should contain the
operating system type (as reported by 'uname -a') and the
compiler/compiler-version. A copy of the configure script output
and/or the config.log file may be valuable in order to find the
problem. If you send a config.log, please also send a script of the
configure output and a description of what you expected to see (and
why) so the failure you are observing can be identified and
resolved.
Compilation:
Now that ImageMagick is configured, type
make
to build the package.
Verifying The Build:
To confirm your build of the ImageMagick distribution was successful,
type:
./utilities/display
The ImageMagick logo is displayed.
If the image colors are not correct use this command:
./utilities/display -visual default
For a more serious test, you may run the ImageMagick test suite by
typing
make check
Note that due to differences between the developer's environment and
your own it is possible that some tests may be indicated as failed
even though the results are ok. Differences between the developer's
environment environment and your own may include the compiler, the
CPU type, and the library versions used. The ImageMagick developers
use the current release of all dependent libraries.
Documentation:
Be sure to read the manual pages for the display(1), animate(1),
montage(1), import(1), mogrify(1), identify(1), composite(1), and
convert(1) utilities. Also read the ImageMagick frequently asked
questions in the file www/Magick.html. This is required reading.
Most of the questions I get via electronic mail are answered in this
document.
X11 Resources:
Place display(1) X application defaults in
/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Display. Use the appropriate name for
other clients (e.g. Animate, Montage, etc). To execute display(1)
from as a menu item of any window manager (olwm, mwm, twm, etc), use
logo:Untitled
MAGICK DELEGATES
To further enhance the capabilities of ImageMagick, you may want to
get these programs or libraries:
o ImageMagick requires the BZLIB library from
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/index.html
to read and write BZip compressed MIFF images.
o ImageMagick requires ralcgm from
http://www.agocg.ac.uk/train/cgm/ralcgm.htm
to read the Computer Graphics Metafile image format (may not
compile under linux). You also need Ghostscript (see below).
o ImageMagick requires fig2dev from
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/drawing_tools/transfig
to read the TransFig image format.
o ImageMagick requires the FreeType software, version 2.0 or above,
available as
http://www.freetype.org/
to annotate with TrueType fonts.
o ImageMagick requires Ghostscript software available from
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
to read the Postscript or the Portable Document format. It is
used to annotate an image when an X server is not available. See
the FreeType library above for another means to annotate an
image. Note, Ghostscript must support the ppmraw device (type gs
-h to verify). If Ghostscript is unavailable, the Display
Postscript extension is used to rasterize a Postscript document
(assuming you define HasDPS). The DPS extension is less robust
than Ghostscript in that it will only rasterize one page of a
multi-page document.
Ghostscript (released 7.0 and later) may optionally install a
library (libgs). If this library is installed, ImageMagick will
attempt to use it unless the option --without-gslib is passed to
configure. Note that Ghostscript provides its own modified version
of libjpeg and that symbols from this libjpeg may be confused with
symbols with the stand-alone libjpeg. If conflicts cause JPEG to
fail, it may be necessary to use Ghostscript's copy of libjpeg for
ImageMagick, and all delegate libraries which depend on libjpeg..
o ImageMagick requires the NCSA HDF5 library available via anonymous
FTP as
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF/HDF_Current
to read and write the HDF image format. By default HDF support is
disabled because HDF5 is not yet complete.
o ImageMagick requires hp2xx available from
http://www.gnu.org/software/hp2xx/hp2xx.html
to read the HP-GL image format.
o ImageMagick requires the LCMS library available from
http://www.littlecms.com
to perform color management.
o ImageMagick requires gnuplot available via anonymous FTP as
ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/gnuplot/gnuplot3.5.tar.Z
to read GNUPLOT plot files (with extension gplt).
o ImageMagick requires html2ps available from
http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html
to read the HTML image format.
o ImageMagick requires the JBIG-Kit software available via
anonymous FTP as
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/pub/doc/ISO/JBIG/
to read the JBIG image format.
o ImageMagick requires the Independent JPEG Group's software
available via anonymous FTP as
ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
to read the JPEG image format.
Apply this JPEG patch to Independent JPEG Group's source
distribution to read lossless jpeg-encoded DICOM images:
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/delegates/
ljpeg-6b.tar.gz
Concerning iterative JPEG compression: see Kinoshita and
Yamamuro, Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, "Image
Quality with Reiterative JPEG Compression", Volume 39, Number 4,
July 1995, 306-312 who claim that (1) the iterative factor of the
repetitive JPEG operation had no influence on image quality, and
(2) the first compression determined base image quality.
o ImageMagick requires the MPEG utilities from the MPEG Software
Simulation Group, which are available via anonymous FTP as
ftp://ftp.mpeg.org/pub/mpeg/mssg/mpeg2vidcodec_v12.tar.gz
to read or write the MPEG image format.
o ImageMagick requires the PNG library, version 1.0 or above, from
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngcode.html
to read the PNG image format.
o ImageMagick requires ra_ppm from Greg Ward's Radiance
software available via anonymous FTP as
http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/HOME.html
to read the Radiance image format (may not compile under linux).
o ImageMagick requires rawtorle from the Utah Raster Toolkit
available via anonymous FTP as
ftp://ftp.cs.utah.edu/pub/dept/OLD/pub/urt-3.1b.tar.Z
to write the RLE image format (may not compile under linux).
o ImageMagick requires scanimage from
http://www.mostang.com/sane/
to import image from a scanner device.
o ImageMagick requires Sam Leffler's TIFF software available
via anonymous FTP at
ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/
or via HTTP at
http://www.libtiff.org/
to read the TIFF image format. It in turn optionally requires
the JPEG and ZLIB libraries. The TIFF library no longer includes
support for LZW compression due to patent issues. If you need to
use LZW compression, support is available via a seperate
LZW compression kit (a patch) at the sites listed above.
o ImageMagick requires libwmf 0.2.2 (or CVS libwmf) available
from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wvware/
to read the Windows Meta File image format (16-bit WMF files only,
not 32-bit "EMF") under Unix. This is the format commonly used for
Windows clipart (available on CD at your local computer or
technical book store). WMF support also requires the FreeType
library.
If ImageMagick is built using libwmf then WMF files are rendered
via ImageMagick's wmf coder module, otherwise output of the
wmf2magick program is rendered by ImageMagick. The configure
script for libwmf offers a choice between using the 'expat' XML
library (--with-expat) and xmlsoft's libxml (--with-xml). Since
ImageMagick already uses libxml (for reading SVG), it is
recommended that the options '--without-expat --with-xml' be
supplied to libwmf's configure script.
ImageMagick's WMF renderer provides some of the finest WMF
rendering available due its use of antialiased drawing algorithms.
You may select a background color or texture image to render on.
For example, "-background '#ffffffff'" renders on a transparent
background while "-texture plasma:fractal" renders on a fractal
image.
A set of Windows 3.1 compatible TrueType fonts (Arial, Times New
Roman, and Courier New) may be downloaded without charge from
Microsoft's web site via the URL
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm
The libwmf-based WMF renderer is not capable of using Windows
fonts with libwmf 0.2.2. Windows fonts are fully supported
when the CVS (development) version of libwmf is used.
o ImageMagick requires the FlashPIX library version 1.2.0 from
the Digital Imaging Group in order to support the FlashPIX
format. The FlashPIX library may be obtained from ImageMagick
anonymous CVS by checking out the 'fpx' module, or retrieving
the file libfpx-1.2.0.4.tar.gz from the ftp directory
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/delegates/.
o ImageMagick requires an X server for display and animate to work
properly. There is a nearly free X server available for Windows
and Macintosh at
http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix/
o ImageMagick requires libxml available from
http://xmlsoft.org/
to read the SVG image format.
o ImageMagick requires the ZLIB library from
http://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
to read or write the PNG or Zip compressed MIFF images.
o ImageMagick requires a background texture for the TILE
format and for the -texture option of montage(1). You can use
your own or get samples from
http://the-tech.mit.edu/KPT/
VMS COMPILATION
You might want to check the values of certain program definitions
before compiling. Verify the definitions in delegates.mgk to suit
your local requirements. Next, type.
Type
unzip ImageMagick-5.4.4.zip set default [.imagemagick] @make set
display/create/node=node_name::
where node_name is the DECNET X server to contact.
Finally type:
display
Alternatively, get a zipped distribution (with JPEG, PNG, TIFF, TTF)
from
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/vms/ImageMagick-5.4.4.zip
Thanks to pmoreau@cenaath.cena.dgac.fr for supplying invaluable help
as well as the VMS versions of the JPEG, PNG, TTF, and TIFF
libraries.
Windows Win2K/95 VISUAL C++ 6.0 COMPILATION
The Visual C++ distribution targeted at Windows Win2K or Windows 95
does not provide any stock workspace (DSW) or project files (DSP)
except for those included with third party libraries. Instead, there
is a "configure" program that must be built and run that creates an
environment that meets your particular needs.
The issue with the Visual C++ working environment is that there are
a fairly large number of mutually exclusive options that must all be
used in a coherent manner, or problems result.
The Visual C++ system provides three different types of "runtimes"
that must match across all application, library, and DLL code that is
built. The "configure" program creates a set of build files that are
consistent for a specific runtime selection.
The three options for runtime support are:
1) Dynamic Multi-threaded DLL runtimes.
2) Static Single-threaded runtimes
3) Static Multi-threaded runtimes
4) Static Multi-threaded DLL runtimes
In addition to these runtimes, the VisualMagick build environment
allows you to select whether to include the X11 libraries in the
build or use the X11 "stubs". The assumption is that most Win32 user
could care less about X11 support, so we stub out all the X11
functionality so that everything compiles. However, the X11 utility
programs like display and animage will not work.
This leads to five different possible build options, which should
cover almost any particular situation. The default binary
distribution is built using #1 from above with the X11 libraries
included. This results in an X11 compatible build using all DLL's for
everything and multi-threaded support (the only option for DLL's).
To do a build for your requirements, simply go to the configure sub-
directory under VisualMagick and open the configure.dsw workspace.
Set the build configuration to "Release" under the
"Build..., Set Active Configuration..." menu.
Build and execute the configure program and follow the instructions.
You should probably not change any of the defaults unless you have a
specific reason to do so.
After creating your build environment you can proceed to open the DSW
file that was generated and build everything from there.
In the final DSW file you will find a project call "All". In order to
build everything in the distribution, select this project and make it
the "active" project. Set the build configuration to the desired one
(Debug, or Release) and do a "clean" followed by a "build". You
should do the build in a specific way:
1) Make the "All" project the active project (Bold)
Right click on the All project and select "Set As Active
Project"
2) Select "Build..., Clean"
3) Select "Build..., Build"
4) Go get some coffee unless you have a very fast machine!.
The "Clean" step is needed in order to make sure that all of the
target support libraries are updated with any patches needed to get
them to compile properly under Visual C++.
All of the required files that are needed to run any of the command
line tools will be found in the "bin" subdirectory of the
VisualMagick subdirectory. This includes EXE, and DLL files. You
should be able to test the build directly from this directory without
having to move anything to any of the global SYSTEM or SYSTEM32 areas
in the operating system installation.
NOTE #1:
The Visual C++ distribution of ImageMagick comes with the Magick++
C++ wrapper by default. This add-on layer has a large number of demo
and test files that can be found in ImageMagick\Magick++\demo, and
ImageMagick\Magick++\tests. There are also a variety of tests that
use the straight C API as well in ImageMagick\tests.
All of these programs are NOT configured to be built in the default
workspace created by the configure program. You can cause all of
these demos and test programs to be built by checking the box in
configure that says:
"Include all demo and test programs"
In addition, there is another related checkbox (checked by default)
that causes all generate project files to be created standalone so
that they can be copied to other areas of you system.
This is the checkbox:
"Generate all utility projects with full paths rather then relative
paths"
WOW - that a mouthfull - eh?
The problem is that Visual C++ uses a concept of "dependencies" that
tell it what other things need to be build when a particular project
is being build. This mechanism is also used to cause things to link
properly. In my normal development environment, I want to be able to
make changes and debug the system as a whole, so I like and NEED to
use dependencies. However, most end users don't want to work this
way.
Instead they really just want to build the package and then get down
to business working on their application. The solution is to make all
the utility projects (UTIL_xxxx_yy_exe.dsp) use full absolute paths
to all the things they need. This way the projects stand on their own
and can actually be copied and used as templates to get a particular
custom application compiling with little effort.
With this feature enabled, you should be able to nab a copy of...
VisualMagick\utilities\UTIL_convert_xxx_exe.dsp (for C)
-or-
VisualMagick\Magick++\demo\UTIL_demo_xxx_exe.dsp (for C++)
... and pop it into notepad, modify it (carefully) to your needs and
be on your way to happy compiling and linking.
You can feel free to pick any of the standard utilities, tests, or
demo programs as the basis for a new program by copying the project
and the source and hacking away.
The choice of what to use as a starting point is very easy...
For straight C API command line applications use something from:
ImageMagick\tests or ImageMagick\utilities (source code)
ImageMagick\VisualMagick\tests or ImageMagick\Visualmagick\utilities
(project - DSP)
For C++ and Magick++ command line applications use something from:
ImageMagick\Magick++\tests or ImageMagick\Magick++\demo
(source code)
ImageMagick\VisualMagick\Magick++\tests or
ImageMagick\VisualMagick\Magick++\demo (project - DSP)
For C++ and Magick++ and MFC windows applications use:
ImageMagick\contrib\win32\MFC\NtMagick (source code)
ImageMagick\VisualMagick\contrib\win32\MFC\NtMagick
(project - DSP)
NOTE #2:
The 5.2.x distribution is much more modular then any previous release
of ImageMagick. The default configuration is there to get you
rolling, but you need to make some serious choices when you wish to
change things around.
The binary distribution and default options are all targeted at
having all the components in one place - the "bin" directory of the
VisualMagick build tree AND the C:\ImageMagick folder.
The C:\ImageMagick folder should contain the following files:
1) magic.mgk
2) delegates.mgk (derived from nt.mgk)
3) modules.mgk
4) rgb.txt
The "bin" folder should contains all EXE's and DLL's as well as the
very important "modules.mgk" file.
With this default setup, you can use any of the command line tools
and run scripts as normal. You can actually get by quite nicely this
way by doing something like "pushd e:\xxx\yyy\bin" in any scripts you
write to execute "out of" this directory.
ALSO, By default the core of ImageMagick on Win32 always looks in the
place were the exe program is run from in order to find all of the
files as well as the DLL's it needs.
Of course - all of this is configurable and there are certain
environment variables and compiler switches that allow you to do
whatever you want. Some of these are Windows things and the rest are
looked at by the core ImageMagick code.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES:
You can use the "System" control panel to allow you to add and delete
what is in any of the environment variables. You can even
have user specific environment variables if you wish.
PATH
This sets the default list of places were Windows looks for EXE's
and DLL's. Windows CMD shell seems to look in the "current"
directory first - no matter what, so that is why you really don't
have to muck. If you wish to run any of utilities from another
location then you must add the path to your "bin" directory in. For
instance, you might add:
D:\CVS\ImageMagick\VisualMagick\bin
to do this for the default build environment like I do. One slight
problem with this is that fact that Windows has another program
called "convert". I usually rename this to something else since it
is only used to convert disks from FAT to NTFS.
MAGICK_HOME
If all you do is modify the PATH variable, the first problem you
will run into is that ImageMagick may not be able to find any of its
"modules. We did not have modules until 5.2 so this is a NEW
problems. Modules are all the IM_MOD*.DLL files you see in the
distribution. There is one of these for each and every file format
that ImageMagick supports. This environment variable tells the
system were to look for these DLL's. The compiled in "default" is
"execution path" - which says - look in the same place that the
application is running "in". If you are running from somewhere other
then "bin" - this will no longer work and you must use this
variable. If you elect to leave the modules in the same place as the
EXE's (a good idea) then you can simply set this to the same place
as you did the PATH variable. In my case:
D:\\ImageMagick\coders
This is also the place were ImageMagick expects to find the all
important "modules.mgk" file.
One cool thing about 5.2 is that you can now leave out file formats
and lighten you load. If all you ever need is GIF and JPEG, then
simply drop all the other DLL's into the local trash can and get on
with your life.
WARNING: Always keep the "xc" format, since IM seems to need and
"assume" that this one exists and gets real "unhappy" if it does
not. We are still tracking down some of these issues.
ALSO. You can elect to changes these things the good old "hard-
coded" way. Two #defines are applicable.
defines.h has
#define MagickConfigurePath "c:\\ImageMagick\\"
NOTE #3:
The two utilities "display" and "animate" will only be usable when
the real X11 libraries are included. The other build environments
uses the X11 stubs to supply non-functional stubs for the X-Window
functionality. There is no support for a "static" build of the X11
support because the build procedures for the X11 libraries do not
seem to support this.
To view any image in a Microsoft window, type
convert image.ext win:
Make sure gswin32 (Ghostscript) is in your execution path (see
Autoexec.bat), otherwise, you will be unable to convert or view a
Postscript document.
Make sure iexplore (Internet Explorer) is in your execution path (see
Autoexec.bat), otherwise, you will be unable to browse the
ImageMagick documentation.
The Win2K executables will work under Windows 95/98.
MACINTOSH COMPILATION
The Macintosh distribution contains MetroWerks Codewarrior
Professional projects for compilation. For those who do not have
access to CodeWarrior, the binaries for the command line utilities
are enclosed. I had to comment the inline intrinsic functions in
math.h in order to compile. If you have a better solution, let me
know.
Display(1), animate(1), and import(1) currently do not work on the
Macintosh.
Magick++
Magick++ provides a straightforward C++ language API to ImageMagick.
Magick++ is built by default under the Unix, Windows, and Mac build
environments. To disable building Magick++ under Unix, specify
--without-magick-plus-plus as an argument to the configure script.
Magick++ is currently supported using the following C++ compilers:
egcs 1.1.2 (or later)
gcc 2.95.2 (or later)
Visual C++ 6.0 (Windows)
IRIX C++ 7.3.1.1m
Sun Workshop 5.0 C++ (tests/demos require work-around to build)
Sun Forte 6.0 C++
CodeWarrior Professional Release 5 (Macintosh)
and may compile under other modern C++ compilers as well.
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