Building ImageMagick on Cygwin

Building ImageMagick on Cygwin

[perlspinr]

Hello,

Heads up. Some persons reading this List might want to know 
this information.

ImageMagick is not yet available as a binary 
Cygwin package. I have no way of knowing what the likelihood is of it 
becoming such a supported Cygwin package at any time in the future. 
Thus for now building ImageMagick from source is the way to get it on 
one's Cygwin system And after all, to me, is an example of one of the fun 
reasons to have Cygwin in the first place.

If one does things in a 
fairly standard plain manner: i.e. you don't have some stuff already 
prepared or adapted but you just go and get the latest I~M~ source 
package and unpack it and try to run `configure', you're going to have 
trouble with a couple of libraries which you might want to build I~M~ 
with: libpng (latest version, all older installations cleanly and 
completely removed please) and Freetype2. The Gnu autotools-
generated configure script isn't going to work on detecting those 
libraries. Don't take my word for it: to the letter of my brief 
description, try it for yourself.

About Freetype2: because it's 
a package (on Cygwin) "owned" by the XFree86-Cygwin folks, it isn't 
installed in the usual place (such as a lib like jpeglib: /usr/include 
for its headers and /lib for the library [and /bin for the dll of 
course]). Because of strategies by the Freetype folk, it isn't 
directly in a X header path either: its in a subdir ("freetype2") of 
XFree86/include. You either need to know this when you run configure, 
or you need to get a fixed configure script.

I've got a fixed 
configure script. I've also got a bellyfull of discussing this with 
arrogant and recalcitrant individuals on other Lists and so I won't 
answer any inquiries here concerning this posting. I am posting 
merely as a public service for those who might stumble on this problem 
in the future, and to invite those who are not so steeped in some 
ideological "Gnu can do no wrong" brainwashed state that they might be 
interested in sharing my work or collaborating, without the purile 
lectures and misguided, deaf cluelessness, thanks, to contact 
me.

  Soren Andersen

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Re: Building ImageMagick on Cygwin

[Charles Wilson]

Soren, having followed some of the discussion on the libpng list, I 
understand your frustration.  However, NOBODY ELSE here on the cygwin 
list has any IDEA what you're talking about.

You are ranting in front of the wrong audience -- why take out your 
frustrations with those other people on us?  With this display of bad 
attitude, you use up the goodwill your effort and help in providing and 
porting IM to cygwin gained you.  Not good.

If you want to classify this as a "purile lecture", go ahead -- but 
first, pretend you know nothing about the recent goings on within the IM 
mailing list, png-developers, or freetype, and re-read your message.

--Chuck


> I've got a fixed 
> configure script. I've also got a bellyfull of discussing this with 
> arrogant and recalcitrant individuals on other Lists and so I won't 
> answer any inquiries here concerning this posting. I am posting 
> merely as a public service for those who might stumble on this problem 
> in the future, and to invite those who are not so steeped in some 
> ideological "Gnu can do no wrong" brainwashed state that they might be 
> interested in sharing my work or collaborating, without the purile 
> lectures and misguided, deaf cluelessness, thanks, to contact 
> me.




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RE: Building ImageMagick on Cygwin

[Gary R. Van Sickle]

[snip]

> If one does things in a
> fairly standard plain manner: i.e. you don't have some stuff already
> prepared or adapted but you just go and get the latest I~M~ source
> package and unpack it and try to run `configure', you're going to have
> trouble with a couple of libraries which you might want to build I~M~
> with: libpng (latest version, all older installations cleanly and
> completely removed please) and Freetype2. The Gnu autotools-
> generated configure script isn't going to work on detecting those
> libraries. Don't take my word for it: to the letter of my brief
> description, try it for yourself.
>

Last time I tried this, everything built just fine.  The binaries didn't work
right, but other than that.... ;-)

--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer.  Patriot.



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Re: Building ImageMagick on Cygwin

[perlspinr]

The URL I promised (as the o.p. who started this thread):

http://home.att.net/~perlspinr/IM_build.html

That page will give some background information, as well 
as I am able at this time. Hope it helps those who might 
want the help. I am sure that many readers of this List 
don't want my "help" but fortunately -- blessedly -- we 
live in a time of relative freedom of expression, so I 
can still offer what I know even if it falls on a lot of 
deaf ears.

  Thanks for reading,
    Soren Andersen
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RE: Building ImageMagick on Cygwin

[Dockeen]

I feel doubly stupid.  I haven't got a clue about the issues of policies or
politics he seems to be talking about, and I did not even get a clear
picture of what you need to do to do the build, because of his taking so
much time explaining why things don't work the normal way.

On this note of personal intellectual futility, I am off to bed...if I can
remeber how to get in it...

Wayne (Notso) Keen



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