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Re: [ITP] ImageMagick


I vote for this - this has my vote :)

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:27:48AM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> I would like to contribute and maintain ImageMagick:
> 
>     http://www.imagemagick.org/
> 
> ImageMagick 5.5.7 is a robust collection of tools and libraries offered 
> under a usage license to read, write, and manipulate an image in many 
> image formats (over 89 major formats) including popular formats like 
> TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF.
> 
> 
> ***Reviewer's Caveat***: ImageMagick depends on just about every library 
> we have :)  I have not created a list of proper dependencies in the 
> setup.hint file below, nor have I done so for the Cygwin-specific 
> README.  This is not difficult to do, but it is time-consuming and I 
> would like to get to bed; I will create this list later.  Or, I would 
> appreciate it very much if someone else ran 'find -name "*.exe" | xargs 
> cygcheck' and created a list of required packages for me.
> 
> Question for other maintainers: ImageMagick defaults to building as a 
> static library... I have not yet tried to build it as a shared library; 
> does anyone have an instant educated guess as to whether or not it will 
> be a good idea to pursue a shared library?  It would save me a lot of 
> wasted effort if someone told me right now that "ImageMagick won't work 
> as a shared lib on Cygwin because foo isn't a shared library" or that 
> ImageMagick is known to use undefined symbols at link time.  Thanks.
> 
> ------------------------ cut here --------------------------------------
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> wget \
> http://msu.edu/~huntharo/cygwin/release/ImageMagick/setup.hint
> 
> wget \
> http://msu.edu/~huntharo/cygwin/release/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-5.5.7-1.tar.bz2
> 
> wget \
> http://msu.edu/~huntharo/cygwin/release/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-5.5.7-1-src.tar.bz2
> 
> ------------------------ cut here --------------------------------------
> 
> MD5 sums:
> 
> f0945d9a7d8177e7242ba5c9cfda31d9 *ImageMagick-5.5.7-1-src.tar.bz2
> 38bf884a4f693c57a056472bf17ff9ea *ImageMagick-5.5.7-1.tar.bz2
> 918958230140e25b89f10489d8df6437 *setup.hint
> 
> 
> Harold

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