in reply to Image::Magick with ActiveState

It may not be related to your specific problem, but I know several people that have moved from Active Perl to Strawberry because of the policy recently adopted by Active Perl with respect to supported versions and module support.

Please note that I am sot saying that you should migrate to Strawberry, I do not know the problem concerning your specific case. I am only saying that some persons that I know have done it for problems looking quite similar to yours.

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Re^2: Image::Magick with ActiveState
by Odud (Pilgrim) on Dec 07, 2014 at 11:42 UTC

    Experiments with Strawberry

    C:\Users\Pete>ppm install Image::Magick
Installing package 'Image-Magick'...
Error installing package 'Image-Magick': Read a PPD for 'Image-Magick'
+, but it is not intended for this build of Perl (MSWin32-x86-multi-th
+read-64int-5.20)

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    Trying with CPAN seemed to work (one test failed but I forced it in), but I now can't get Image::ExifTool to install... I will continue to try.

    I've now managed to install everything I need - I was getting random failures in CPAN that were avoided by quitting and restarting the DOS CMD prompt

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      For reference in case anyone else needs to do this here's what I did:

      1. Install Strawberry 5.20.1 for 32 bit

      2. Instal ImageMagick 6.9.0 Q16 for 32 bit including the headers

      3. start CPAN and force install Image::Magick

      I didn't try with the 64 bit versions. So far so good, let's see how I get on with Strawberry this time!

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Re^2: Image::Magick with ActiveState
by Odud (Pilgrim) on Dec 07, 2014 at 09:47 UTC

    I have tried moving to Strawberry in the past - the problems I had was that a lot of stuff that I downloaded from CPAN gave me lots of make errors that were beyond my ability to fix. I do like ActiveState because (in general) if I can find it in Package Manager then it installs and works without trouble.

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