What I have learned so far on getting PerlMagick up and running on Windows 2000:

The site: http://www.imagemagick.org/www/windows.html doesn't seem to actually have a link to the ImageMagick windows installer. But do a search on google for: ImageMagick-5.5.7-12.zip and you will find the zip file containing the .exe file with the ImageMagick installer.

Active State Perl does not in fact seem to provide the Perl Magick module as an option at installation as it claims. With ImageMagick 5.5.7 installed and working, when I install Active State Perl 5.8.1.807 the installer states that it will provide the installation of Perl Magick as an option if I have ImageMagick installed, but this does not in fact occur.

So, I have now tried to install the module via the CPAN module (not much luck here), and then manually with MakeFile.pl (many errors given for libraries not found) and then nmake (error given because cl is not a recognizable executable), and finally had the best luck with ppm (make sure that you are using a repository with Image Magick...the comment above contains info on setting up ppm to point to a repository that does have image-magick)

Here is what I learned about the ppm installation: If one does the FULL install of image-magick (available in the repository in an above message), this installs all the perl module stuff and the required ImageMagick dll's. This is probably the cleanest route because it is imperitive that the ImageMagick version and the PerlMagick version match. If they do not match you will have problems.

In reply to Re: Image::Magick on Windows! by jeffpflueger
in thread Image::Magick on Windows! by jeffpflueger

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