You can also use the Darwin Ports facility to get a copy of ImageMagick:
$ port list | grep ImageMagick
ImageMagick graphics/ImageMagick 6.0.2-7 Tools and libraries to manipulate images in many formats
rb-rmagick ruby/rb-rmagick 1.5.0 The Ruby interface to ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick
$
http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/
gbs
George B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sep 22, 2004, at 1:13 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Mark Wheeler wrote:
There are instructions for installing ImageMagic on the ImageMagick site.
Swell.
As I was saying though, if you install Fink, you can take advantage of the fact that someone already automated all of this for you.
But hey, some people like re-inventing wheels... :-)
Should I just follow the Unix instructions?
If you really want to prove to yourself how much rounder your wheel will
be, then yes, use the Unix instructions.
Am I going in the right direction here, or is there something else (Imager?) that will do the same thing with less of an installation procedure?
ImageMagick is a big, complex package to start with, but it can also do a huge number of things, and there are quite a lot of people using it. You may be able to do just fine with a simpler library
Just had a thought. Is installing a C library a different process then installing a perl module?
Lots of Perl modules are written partly in C (or XS, whatever), so in some ways there isn't much of a difference. But more broadly, yeah, a pure C library is often installed in ways similar to Perl libraries.
Really though, I'm not kidding, don't bother with this. It Hurts.
Download Fink from <http://fink.sf.net/>.
Install it.
Follow the instructions for setting it up.
Launch a new shell, and just type
$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick
If a binary is available -- I seem to remember that it is -- then Fink
will download both Imagemagick and any libraries it depends on, and will
install everything for you.
If the binary isn't available, skip apt-get & build it from source:
$ sudo fink -y install imagemagick
At that point, all you have to do is hook Perl up to it by installing the Image::Magick CPAN module. Again, Fink will help you here.
$ sudo apt-get install perlmagick-pm581
or, once more, build from source, with
$ sudo fink -y install perlmagick-pm581
Plant, water, watch it grow, harvest when ripe.
You can do this all by hand, but there's not much point in doing so.
-- Chris Devers
