in reply to Image::Magick problems

I have been having problems with IM in some (originally *NIX) perl scripts. The scripts where not detecting the Image::Magick.pm. So I have found this page that explains some recipies to solve any win32 problem related to a bad compilation of the win32 version...

I have added the recipie at Code Catacombs/Win32 Stuff.

In short, it all comes from not installing the IM application in the C:\\imagemagick\ directory. And not copying the CORE*.dll files in C:\perl\bin\.

My problems were solved after following this recipie.

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Re: Re: Image::Magick problems
by Roger (Parson) on Jan 20, 2004 at 02:13 UTC
    On windows platform you could just download and install the binary release package from the IM website. Although it was compiled for version 5.8.0 of ActiveState perl, I tested it under version 5.8.2 and it appeared to work fine.

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      Sorry,Roger

      Not for me.

      I don't know much of the reason why the most recent version of www.fuzzymonkey.org Mike's Photo Gallery Script was not working as the previous at my local Win XP pro. I tryied everything to get the script see the IM module, but it didn't. Finally, after installing IM twice from IM's site (with PerlMagick) and later, following that recipie, it all worked fine.

      It would be great to invest some time in checking all the script to find out why it was working that way. But it is not the first time that I try to use a script that depends on IM at Win32 and it doesn't work.

      It is a shame because IM represents a lot in LINUX, but it can't be used the same at Windows.

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        I just downloaded ImageMagick-5.5.7-Q8-windows-dll.exe and the setup program asked me if I want to install perl binding, I clicked yes and it installed without any problems. Was that how you installed it? Or did you use the PPM instead?

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