Dear readers,
after installing on MS-Windows XP SP2:
(1) ActivePerl-5.10.0.1002-MSWin32-x86-283697.msi (i.e. 5.10.0 Build 1002) and
(2) ImageMagick-6.4.1-1-Q16-windows-dll.exe (checking the box to install
PerlMagick for Perl 5.10.0 Build 1002)
this simple Perl script:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use Image::Magick;
failed to load Image::Magick. In search for the cause of this problem my
colleague
found out that the file Image-Magick.ppd as shipped with ImageMagick 6.4.1-1
contains a typo/error. In the line below for the tag 'ARCHITECTURE' the value
for the attribute 'NAME' should end with 5.10 and NOT 5.1 (since we are
installing
for Perl 5.10 and not 5.1):
<SOFTPKG NAME="Image-Magick" VERSION="6,4,1,0">
<TITLE>Image-Magick</TITLE>
<ABSTRACT>ImageMagick PERL Extension</ABSTRACT>
<AUTHOR>ImageMagick Studio</AUTHOR>
<IMPLEMENTATION>
<OS NAME="MSWin32" />
<ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.1" />
<CODEBASE HREF="x86/Image-Magick.tar.gz" />
</IMPLEMENTATION>
</SOFTPKG>
I corrected the value and from a Command Window ('cmd' on MS-Windows XP) I then
ran:
ppm install Image-Magick.ppd
which then went fine.
So: I think the PPD file as shipped with ImageMagick 6.4.1-1-Q{8,16} is
incorrect and should be fixed.
With kind regards, Jurgen Rusch (Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
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