On Jan 31, 2011, at 1:21 PM, Ron Jeffries wrote:

> At the same time, I have no right to ask, but if someone is in the
> position of being able to easily build that DLL (and the others from
> the book), I'd be grateful and it would make a very nice book more
> useful to others.

To add a bit to this: I had written Cliff Reiter a while back when I 
encountered the same problem as Mr. Jeffries with Mac-Intel. Professor Reiter 
and his son Zach were kind enough to send me the source code for the shared 
library which is, not entirely, a wrapper around a variety of open-source image 
libraries.

The existing code depends on releases of libraries like libpng and libjpeg that 
are circa 2002, and the code won't build on OSX very easily (and apparently 
also Windows) without an update.

This suggests that the image3 library for all J platforms could use a refresh, 
and I earlier asked on Bjorn Helgason's Google Group whether there were folks 
that would like to help maintain this library. This, of course, with the 
yet-to-be-asked permission of the Reiters.

If anyone is interested, I'm happy to be a point of communication, and 
hopefully could work on the OSX refresh. Anyone for Linux and Windows?

Best wishes,

Charles

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