kraft has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm stuck on Mac OS 9 here at work and am trying to implement some ImageMagick scripts, but I can't seem to figure out how to install the ImageMagick module in MacPerl. Is there anyone who has successfully installed this module to run with MacPerl without having to comple the source, i.e. from the binaries provided on imagemagick.org? I don't have Codewarrior here at the office. Thanks in advance for any help. Regards, Jackson West
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Re: Installing ImageMagick binaries for MacPerl
by barrd (Canon) on Oct 27, 2003 at 17:20 UTC
    Hi kraft,
    Sorry, but I think you may be out of luck. No Codewarrior, no install. The only thing I could find via the oracle was this link containing:
    >>I would like to write some perl scripts to do image resizing on Mac OS 9.

    The only way to do this would be to use MacPerl in conjunction with my mac OS scripting port of a WAY OLD version of IM via AppleEvents.

    Or, better yet, move to Mac OS X!

    The person who replied to that thread has his email addy there, as a long shot you could maybe try contacting him? Best of luck anyway. :)
Re: Installing ImageMagick binaries for MacPerl
by bradcathey (Prior) on Oct 27, 2003 at 19:10 UTC
    Hey, if you (kraft) get this to work msg me. I've had to resort to GD, which works fine, easy to use, etc., but has a crusty optimization engine (Photoshop optimized images look 10x better). Would love to use I::M but my host won't support it because of all the necessary support files.

    Curious: why are you still using OS 9??? Especially considering that OS X is running Apache, et al. I highly recommend the change. It's wonderful.

    Good luck.
      Curious: why are you still using OS 9??? Especially considering that OS X is running Apache, et al. I highly recommend the change. It's wonderful.
      Why is the sky blue? Why did I invest tons of money into OS9? Why do all my applications run only on OS9? Why is OS X so expensive? Why am I broke? Why doesn't OS X run on my hardware? .....