Hi friends,

Thanks so much for your support.

I eventually got it running. For the benefit of anyone with similar issues...

I am using Win8.1 x64, with Strawberry Perl 5.22.0 x64 and ImageMagick 6.9.1-9 Q16 x64.

Previously I've just used the "Install PerlMagick" checkbox during the ImageMagick install, but that did not work this time. Instead I installed ImageMagick checking only the boxes to "x Add application directory to your system path" and "x Install development headers...". Then I ran "cpan Image::Magick" to download/build/install directly from CPAN. This failed, but I could see it was just due to some tests failing, so I ran "cpan" to enter the shell and ran "notest install Image::Magick", which worked.

My earlier efforts had failed in part because I was trying hard to get ActivePerl working, and I had rebooted between tries, and so my %PATH% wasn't clean. I ultimately uninstalled everything, rebooted, then installed Strawberry & ImageMagick, rebooted, then confirmed %PATH% in the System control panel, then starting using cpan.

I also tried 'ppm' but that didn't work, and I saw online some people were suggesting a third-party repository bribes.org but I didn't want to go there.

In reply to Re: running Image::Magick with Windows Perl in 2015? by pm395080566
in thread running Image::Magick with Windows Perl in 2015? by pm395080566

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