Hi all,

I have a compiled version of Perl (5.14.2 which works with compiled apache2 & mod_perl ok).

When I try and compile ImageMagick using the args --with-perl I get the error cannot find -lperl (After researching, I'm assuming this is libperl.so its after).

If I look for libperl.so I can only find the system installed version, and can only find libperl.a in the custom compiled Perl version (in /opt/perl).

This is where I get stuck in my understanding. Should I be compiling Perl differently to produce a .so file (I tried option -Duseshrplib for compiling perl, but problem persisted even though I can now see a .so) rather than .a, or should there be something in the ImageMagick compile options that would accept a .a. I sort of vaguely understand the idea of static vs shared libs, but not sure of any consequences or problems or solutions

Does anyone have any ideas how I could get ImageMagick to compile correctly with my non system version of Perl without it negatively affecting anything else ?

Thanks in advance

In reply to Compiling ImageMagick and Perl problem by Gib

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