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

I have been unsuccessfully trying to install PerlMagick on a Windows XP machine. From previous postings it sounds as if I need to run particular versions of Perl and PerlMagick. I am hoping that someone knows how to get the current versions of Perl and PerlMagick to work together.

I receive this error: 
Can't load 'c:/Perl/site/lib/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.dll' for module 
+Image::Magick: load_file:The specified module could not be f
ound at c:/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 230.

[download]
When running this script: 
use strict;

use lib ( "C:/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.2.2-Q16" );

 use Image::Magick;

  my($image, $x);

  $image = Image::Magick->new;
  $x = $image->Read('girl.png', 'logo.png', 'rose.png');
  warn "$x" if "$x";

  exit;

[download]
The file 'c:/Perl/site/lib/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.dll' does exist. I am using this version of Perl: 
This is perl, v5.8.6 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2004, Larry Wall

Binary build 811 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.
+com
ActiveState is a division of Sophos.
Built Dec 13 2004 09:52:01

[download]

I installed PerlMagick from this version of the Image Magick installer: 
ImageMagick-6.2.2-0-Q16-windows-dll.exe

[download]

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Installing PerlMagick on Windows XP
by Jouke (Curate) on Apr 26, 2005 at 18:22 UTC
    The error message you get (about the specified module not loading), has to do with ImageMagick's own DLLs, not the Perl module's DLLs.
    When you install ImageMagick, it defines (somewhere in the registry) where it stores its DLLs. Somehow this got messed up in your installation. Maybe it's a good plan to install the ImageMagick PPM from http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppmdir.html, with which I've had very good experiences.


    Jouke Visser
    Using Perl to enable the disabled: pVoice
[reply]
      Thank you
[reply]

Back to Seekers of Perl Wisdom