Installing PerlMagick

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

Hi Perl Monks,

I've managed to install ImageMagick 6.2.1. but i'm having trouble installing PerlMagick, the Perl extension that links up with Imagemagick. Does anyone here have any experience using this?

If so can you please explain what this bit of the README.txt file is going on about? It says.

Next, edit Makefile.PL and change LIBS and INC to include the appropri
+ate
    path information to the required libMagick library. You will also 
+need
    library search paths (-L) to JPEG, PNG, TIFF, etc. libraries if th
+ey were
    included with your installed version of ImageMagick. If an extensi
+on
    library is built as a shared library but not installed in the syst
+em's
    default library search path, you may need to add run-path informat
+ion
    (often -R or -rpath) corresponding to the equivalent library searc
+h
    path option so that the library can be located at run-time.
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Can someone tell me what I need to do? I've found what it specifies the LIBS and INC and they currently look like this:

   # Header search specfication and preprocessor flags
   'INC'        => '-I../ -I.. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11R6/i
+nclude -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 -I/usr/include/libxml2',

   # Library specification
   'LIBS'       => ['-L/usr/local/lib -lMagick -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lfree
+type -lz -L/usr/lib -llcms -ltiff -lfreetype -ljpeg -lpng -ldpstk -ld
+ps -lXext -lXt -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lxml2 -lz -lpthread -lm -lpthr
+ead'],
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The base directory that i'm installing this all in is /home/tdf/

Oh the only other thing to note is that i've managed to install ImageMagick using a pre-built binary, however I can't find PerlMagick prebuilt, so I have downloaded the source for ImageMagick which also includes the source for PerlMagick, and i'm trying to install that version. I've made sure it's all the same version though, i.e. 6.2.1.

I have a horrible feeling I have probably just included far too much information in this post and I doubt anyone is still reading so I will stop writing now and hope someone can point me in the right direction.

Cheers,
Tom

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Re: Installing PerlMagick by polettix (Vicar) on Apr 06, 2005 at 14:42 UTC
Have you simply tried to compile the PerlMagick package? If you got a prebuilt distribution, chances are that the libraries you should provide the path for are those which already populate INC and LIBS - so you have to do nothing. If you encounter problems, look for the ImageMagick stuff (libraries in "lib" directories, header files in "include" directories), probably under /usr or /usr/local. I would also suggest to look at the "pre-built binary" (is it a tgz file?), usually source distributions tend to put things into /usr/local by default, while compiled packages have a bias for /usr. Flavio (perl -e "print(scalar(reverse('ti.xittelop@oivalf')))") Don't fool yourself.	[reply]
Re: Installing PerlMagick by cfreak (Chaplain) on Apr 06, 2005 at 16:39 UTC
I've had tons of hassles with PerlMagick, I believe (at least the last time I tried it) I had to comment out some of the libraries in the Makefile.PL because the compile switches weren't turning them off correctly. I've also found the Imager module to be much easier to install and just as effective. Lobster Aliens Are attacking the world!	[reply]
Re^2: Installing PerlMagick by webchalkboard (Scribe) on Apr 06, 2005 at 16:47 UTC
That's cool thanks i'll check that module out. I'm fed up with PerlMagick, i've tried installing it from source a couple of times now, but still it fails on 28 of the tests. And is giving me errors... Does Imager still require that I have ImageMagick installed? Cheers Tom Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. - Confucius WebChalkboard.com \| For the love of art...	[reply]
Re^3: Installing PerlMagick by cfreak (Chaplain) on Apr 06, 2005 at 16:57 UTC
Runs to look at it real fast It appears to use its own library. You will need to make sure to have libraries for the different image types installed though, but you should have them if you managed to get ImageMagick installed you should have most of them. Just be careful if you install from CPAN to have them first, because it will compile anyway without support for libs it couldn't find. (CPAN speeds past the nice little screen that tells you what you've got support for :) ) Lobster Aliens Are attacking the world!	[reply]
Re: Installing PerlMagick by webchalkboard (Scribe) on Apr 06, 2005 at 15:06 UTC
Yeah tried just compiling and I got a lot of error messages which looked like this: Magick.c: In function `XS_Image__Magick_Animate': Magick.c:1978: warning: unused variable `ref' Magick.c:1973: warning: unused variable `ix' Magick.c: In function `XS_Image__Magick_Append': Magick.c:2052: warning: unused variable `ref' Magick.c:2047: warning: unused variable `ix' Magick.c: In function `XS_Image__Magick_Average': Magick.c:2183: warning: unused variable `ref' Magick.c:2178: warning: unused variable `ix' [download] Then the last one looked like this `gcc -L/usr/local/lib -shared -L/usr/local/lib Magick.o -o blib/arch/ +auto/Image/Magick/Magick.so -L/usr/local/lib -L/u sr/X11R6/lib -lfreetype -lz -L/usr/lib -ltiff -lfreetype -ljpeg -lpng +-ldpstk -ldps -lXext -lXt -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -l xml2 -lz -lpthread -lm -lpthread /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lbz2 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [blib/arch/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.so] Error 1` [download] So I think it failed at the end because it couldnt find a library file... do you think I need to change where is says. `-L/usr/lib -ltiff -lfreetype -ljpeg -lpng -ldpstk -ldps -lXext -lXt -l +SM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -l xml2 -lz -lpthread -lm -lpthread` [download] To be something more like `-L/home/tdf/ImageMagick/lib -ltiff -lfreetype -ljpeg -lpng -ldpstk -ld +ps -lXext -lXt -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -l xml2 -lz -lpthread -lm -lpthread` [download] ? Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. - Confucius WebChalkboard.com \| For the love of art...	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Installing PerlMagick by samizdat (Vicar) on Apr 06, 2005 at 17:18 UTC
`+-ldpstk -ldps -lXext -lXt -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -l xml2 -lz -lpthread -lm -lpthread /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lbz2 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [blib/arch/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.so] Error 1` [download] It looks like it's trying to find a library to unpack bz2 compressed archives. Look for something like libbz2.so somewhere in your library areas. I know in FreeBSD5 they use BZ2 for packages et al, and they used to use normal .tgz tarballs. What is your OS and version?	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Installing PerlMagick by fauria (Deacon) on Apr 06, 2005 at 15:11 UTC
Hi, Have you tried: perl -MCPAN -e 'install Image::Magick'?	[reply]
Re: Installing PerlMagick by webchalkboard (Scribe) on Apr 06, 2005 at 15:28 UTC
I have now and that returns a lot of nasty looking error messages. Magick.xs:9371: error: syntax error before ')' token Magick.xs:9385: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type Magick.xs:9393: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type Magick.xs:9393: error: `MagickTrue' undeclared (first use in this func +tion) Magick.xs:9396: warning: implicit declaration of function `WriteImage' Magick.xs:9396: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type Magick.xs:9397: error: `ErrorException' undeclared (first use in this +function) Magick.xs:9399: warning: implicit declaration of function `GetImageExc +eption' Magick.xs:9401: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type Magick.xs:9408: error: `UndefinedException' undeclared (first use in t +his function) Magick.xs:9408: warning: unused variable `message' Magick.xs:9335: warning: unused variable `filename' Magick.c:9045: warning: unused variable `ref' Magick.c:9040: warning: unused variable `ix' Magick.xs: In function `boot_Image__Magick': Magick.xs:1938: warning: implicit declaration of function `InitializeM +agick' Magick.xs:1939: warning: implicit declaration of function `SetWarningH +andler' Magick.xs:1940: warning: implicit declaration of function `SetErrorHan +dler' make: *** [Magick.o] Error 1 /usr/bin/make -- NOT OK Running make test Can't test without successful make Running make install make had returned bad status, install seems impossible [download] Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. - Confucius WebChalkboard.com \| For the love of art...	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Installing PerlMagick by webchalkboard (Scribe) on Apr 07, 2005 at 09:52 UTC
Hello Again, Well I have managed to install the Imager module from cpan with no problems at all and plugged it into my script and it's working well, only the colours in the image it generates are all wrong... I will have a play around with the settings to see if I can make them better, but take a look at the following images to see what I mean. The original images look like this: http://www.freefivers.co.uk/images/ps/World%20Gallery/ztb_im_g344.jpg http://www.freefivers.co.uk/images/ps/Your%20Price%20Furniture/3drawerbedsidechest.jpg The scaled down images look like this: http://www.freefivers.co.uk/images/ps/World%20Gallery/thumbnails/ztb_im_g344.gif http://www.freefivers.co.uk/images/ps/Your%20Price%20Furniture/thumbnails/3drawerbedsidechest.png Hmm the colours are so far out i'm not sure I can use it like this... I'd be interested to know if anyone has experience with this and how I can get the colours to match better, i've tried different file formats, i.e. .gif and .png, but they both look rubbish. It doesn't seem to create .jpg files, so I presume that library isn't installed as you said. Thanks, otherwise a totally cool module. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. - Confucius WebChalkboard.com \| For the love of art...	[reply]
Re^2: Installing PerlMagick by webchalkboard (Scribe) on Apr 07, 2005 at 10:07 UTC
I have managed to solve my own problem. I took code from the cpan page for creating thumbnails and it included a filter $thumb->filter(type=>'autolevels'); Removing this line sorted my problem. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. - Confucius WebChalkboard.com \| For the love of art...	[reply]