"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 There is a mailing list for discussions and bug reports about ImageMagick. To subscribe send the message subscribe magick-user to majordomo@imagemagick.org. You will receive a welcome message which tells you how to post messages to the list, magick-user@imagemagick.org. 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. 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