UNIX/Cygwin/MinGW COMPILATION Note: Platform specific notes regarding specific operating systems may be found in the PLATFORMS.txt file. This file (README.txt) provides generic instructions which work in most common cases. Additional notes regarding Cygwin & MinGW are provided later in this file. Type: gzip -dc ImageMagick-5.5.7.tar.gz | tar xvf - cd ImageMagick-5.5.7 If you do not have gzip(1), the source for the gzip package is available as a shell archive at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.2.4a.shar or as a tar archive at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.2.4a.tar Use 'configure' to automatically configure, build, and install ImageMagick. The configure script may be executed from the ImageMagick source directory (e.g ./configure) or from a seperate build directory by specifying the full path to configure (e.g. /src/ImageMagick-5.5.7/configure). The advantage of using a seperate build directory is that multiple ImageMagick builds may share the same ImageMagick source directory while allowing each build to use a unique set of options. If you are willing to accept configure's default options, and build from within the source directory, type: ./configure and watch the configure script output to verify that it finds everything that you think it should. If it does not, then adjust your environment so that it does. By default, `make install' will install the package's files in `/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc. You can specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving `configure' the option `--prefix=PATH'. This is valuable in case you don't have privileges to install under the default paths or if you want to install in the system directories instead. If you are not happy with configure's choice of compiler, compilation flags, or libraries, you can give `configure' initial values for variables by specifying them on the configure command line, e.g.: ./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix Options which should be common to packages installed under the same directory heirarchy may be supplied via a 'config.site' file located under the installation prefix via the path ${prefix}/share/config.site where ${prefix} is the installation prefix. This file is used for all packages installed under that prefix. This is an example config.site file: # Configuration values for all packages installed under this prefix CC=gcc CXX=c++ CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include' LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib' When the 'config.site' file is being used to supply configuration options, configure will issue a message similar to: configure: loading site script /usr/local/share/config.site The configure variables you should be aware of are:
          CC          Name of C compiler (e.g. 'cc -Xa') to use
          CXX         Name of C++ compiler to use (e.g. 'CC')
          CFLAGS      Compiler flags (e.g. '-g -O2') to compile C code
          CXXFLAGS    Compiler flags (e.g. '-g -O2') to compile C++ code
          CPPFLAGS    Include paths (-I/somedir) to look for header files
          LDFLAGS     Library paths (-L/somedir) to look for libraries
                      Systems that support the notion of a library run-path
                      may require an additional argument in order to find
                      shared libraries at run time. For example, the Solaris
                      linker requires an argument of the form '-R/somedir',
                      some Linux systems will work with '-rpath /somedir',
                      while some other Linux systems who's gcc does not pass
                      -rpath to the linker require an argument of the form
                      '-Wl,-rpath,/somedir'.
          LIBS        Extra libraries (-lsomelib) required to link
Any variable (e.g. CPPFLAGS or LDFLAGS) which requires a directory path must specify an absolute path rather than a relative path. Configure can usually find the X include and library files automatically, but if it doesn't, you can use the `configure' options `--x-includes=DIR' and `--x-libraries=DIR' to specify their locations. The configure script provides a number of ImageMagick specific options. When disabling an option --disable-something is equivalent to specifying --enable-something=no and --without-something is equivalent to --with-something=no. The configure options are as follows (execute 'configure --help' to see all options). Optional Features:
       --enable-ccmalloc       enable 'ccmalloc' memory debug support (default disabled)
       --enable-prof           enable 'prof' profiling support (default disabled)
       --enable-gprof          enable 'gprof' profiling support (default disabled)
       --enable-gcov           enable 'gcov' profiling support (default disabled)
       --disable-installed     disable building an installed ImageMagick
    	                         (default enabled)
       --disable-largefile     disable support for large (64 bit) file offsets
       --enable-lzw            enable LZW support (default disabled)
Optional Packages/Options: --with-quantum-depth number of bits in a pixel quantum (default 8)
       --with-modules          enable support for dynamically loadable modules
       --with-cache            set pixel cache threshhold (defaults to available memory)
       --without-threads       disable threads support
--without-frozenpaths disable frozen delegate paths --without-magick-plus-plus disable build/install of Magick++
       --without-perl          disable build/install of PerlMagick
            or
       --with-perl=PERL        use specified Perl binary to configure PerlMagick
       --with-perl-options=OPTIONS  options to pass on command-line when
                               generating PerlMagick's Makefile from Makefile.PL
       --without-bzlib         disable BZLIB support
       --without-dps           disable Display Postscript support
       --without-fpx           disable FlashPIX support
       --with-gslib            enable Ghostscript library support
       --without-jbig          disable JBIG support
       --without-jpeg          disable JPEG support
       --without-jp2           disable JPEG v2 support
       --without-lcms          disable LCMS support
       --without-png           disable PNG support
       --without-tiff          disable TIFF support
       --without-ttf           disable TrueType support
       --without-wmf           disable WMF support
       --with-fontpath         prepend to default font search path
       --with-gs-font-dir      directory containing Ghostscript fonts
       --with-windows-font-dir directory containing MS-Windows fonts
       --without-xml           disable XML support
       --without-zlib          disable ZLIB support
       --with-x                use the X Window System
       --with-share-path=DIR   Alternate path to share directory
                               (default share/ImageMagick)
       --with-libstdc=DIR      use libstdc++ in DIR (for GNU C++)
ImageMagick options represent either features to be enabled, disabled, or packages to be included in the build. When a feature is enabled (via --enable-something), it enables code already present in ImageMagick. When a package is enabled (via --with-something), the configure script will search for it, and if is is properly installed and ready to use (headers and built libraries are found by compiler) it will be included in the build. The configure script is delivered with all features disabled and all packages enabled. In general, the only reason to disable a package is if a package exists but it is unsuitable for the build (perhaps an old version or not compiled with the right compilation flags). Several configure options require special note: --enable-shared: the shared libraries are built and support for loading coder and process modules is enabled. Shared libraries are preferred because they allow programs to share common code, making the individual programs much smaller. In addition shared libraries are required in order for PerlMagick to be dynamically loaded by an installed PERL (otherwise an additional PERL (PerlMagick) must be installed. This option is not the default because all libraries used by ImageMagick must also be dynamic libraries if ImageMagick itself is to be dynamically loaded (such as for PerlMagick).
          ImageMagick built with delegates (see MAGICK PLUG-INS below)
          can pose additional challenges. If ImageMagick is built
          using static libraries (the default without --enable-shared)
          then delegate libraries may be built as either static libraries
          or shared libraries. However, if ImageMagick is built using
          shared libraries, then all delegate libraries must also be built as
          shared libraries.  Static libraries usually have the extension .a,
          while shared libraries typically have extensions like .so, .sa,
          or .dll. Code in shared libraries normally must compiled using
          a special compiler option to produce Position Independent Code
          (PIC). The only time this is not necessary is if the platform
          compiles code as PIC by default.

          PIC compilation flags differ from vendor to vendor (gcc's is
          -fPIC). However, you must compile all shared library source with
          the same flag (for gcc use -fPIC rather than -fpic). While static
          libraries are normally created using an archive tool like 'ar',
          shared libraries are built using special linker or compiler options
          (e.g. -shared for gcc).

          Building shared libraries often requires subtantial hand-editing
          of Makefiles and is only recommended for those who know what they
          are doing.

          If --enable-shared is not specified, a new PERL interpreter
          (PerlMagick) is built which is statically linked against the
          PerlMagick extension. This new interpreter is installed into the
          same directory as the ImageMagick utilities. If --enable-shared
          is specified, the PerlMagick extension is built as a dynamically
          loadable object which is loaded into your current PERL interpreter
          at run-time. Use of dynamically-loaded extensions is preferable over
          statically linked extensions so --enable-shared should be specified
          if possible (note that all libraries used with ImageMagick must
          be shared libraries!).
--disable-static: static archive libraries (with extension .a) are not built. If you are building shared libraries, there is little value to building static libraries. Reasons to build static libraries include: 1) they can be easier to debug; 2) the clients do not have external dependencies (i.e. libMagick.so); 3) building PIC versions of the delegate libraries may take additional expertise and effort; 4) you are unable to build shared libraries. --with-modules: image coders and process modules are built as loadable modules which are installed under the directory [prefix]/lib/ImageMagick-X.X.X/modules-QN (where 'N' equals 8, 16, or 32 depending on the quantum depth) in the subdirectories 'coders' and 'filters' respectively. The modules build option is only available in conjunction with --enable-shared. If --enable-shared is not also specified, then support for building modules is disabled. Note that if --enable-shared is specified, the module loader is active (allowing extending an installed ImageMagick by simply copying a module into place) but ImageMagick itself is not built using modules. --enable-lzw: Unisys claims a patent on the algorithm supporting LZW compression (e.g. used by GIF and TIFF). To avoid possibly infringing on this patent, support for LZW is disabled by default. With LZW support, GIF files written by ImageMagick will be much larger than expected. Note that the TIFF library must be patched in order to support LZW compression, and that this support must be explicitly enabled in the libtiff Makefiles. --with-quantum-depth: This option allows the user to specify the number of bits to use per pixel quantum (the size of the red, green, blue, and alpha pixel components. For example, "--with-quantum-depth=8" builds ImageMagick using 8-bit quantums. Most computer display adaptors use 8-bit quantums. Currently supported arguments are 8, 16, or 32. The default is 8. This option is the most important option in determining the overall run-time performance of ImageMagick.
          The number of bits in a quantum determines how many values it may
          contain. Each quantum level supports 256 times as many values as
          the previous level. The following table shows the range available
          for various quantum sizes.

              QuantumDepth  Valid Range (Decimal)  Valid Range (Hex)
                    8            0-255                   00-FF
                   16           0-65535                0000-FFFF
                   32         0-4294967295         00000000-FFFFFFFF

          Larger pixel quantums cause ImageMagick to run more slowly and to
          require more memory. For example, using sixteen-bit pixel quantums
          causes ImageMagick to run 15% to 50% slower (and take twice as
          much memory) than when it is built to support eight-bit pixel
          quantums.

          The amount of virtual memory consumed by an image can be computed
          by the equation (QuantumDepth*Rows*Columns*5)/8. This is an
          important consideration when resources are limited, particularly
          since processing an image may require several images to be in
          memory at one time. The following table shows memory consumption
          values for a 1024x768 image:

              QuantumDepth  Virtual Memory
                  8              3MB
                 16              8MB
                 32             15MB
--without-magick-plus-plus: Disable building Magick++, the C++ application programming interface to ImageMagick. A suitable C++ compiler is required in order to build Magick++. Specify the CXX configure variable to select the C++ compiler to use (default "g++"), and CXXFLAGS to select the desired compiler opimization and debug flags (default "-g -O2"). Antique C++ compilers will normally be rejected by configure tests so specifying this option should only be necessary if Magick++ fails to compile. --without-frozenpaths: Normally full paths to external programs (based on searching the PATH set when configure is run) will be saved to the delegates.mgk file. Specify this option to disable saving full paths to programs. --without-threads: By default, the ImageMagick library is compiled with multi-thread support. If this is undesireable, then specify --without-threads. --with-cache: Specify a different image pixel cache threshold using the --with-cache option. This sets the maximum amount of heap memory that ImageMagick is allowed to consume before switching to using memory-mapped temporary files to store raw pixel data. --disable-largefile: By default, ImageMagick is compiled with support for large (> 2GB on a 32-bit CPU) files if the operating system supports large files. All applications which use the ImageMagick library must then also include support for large files. By disabling support for large files via --disable-largefile, dependent applications do not require special compilation options for large files in order to use the library. --without-perl: By default, PerlMagick is conveniently compiled and installed as part of ImageMagick's normal "configure", "make", "make install" process.. When --without-perl is specified, you must first install ImageMagick, change to the PerlMagick subdirectory, build, and finally install PerlMagick. Note, PerlMagick is configured even if --without-perl is specified. If the argument --with-perl=/path/to/perl is supplied, then /path/to/perl will be taken as the PERL interpreter to use. This is important in case the 'perl' executable in your PATH is not PERL5, or is not the PERL you want to use. --with-perl-options: The PerlMagick module is normally installed using the Perl interpreter's installation PREFIX, rather than ImageMagick's. If ImageMagick's installation prefix is not the same as PERL's PREFIX, then you may find that PerlMagick's 'make install' step tries to install into a directory tree that you don't have write permissions to. This is common when PERL is delivered with the operating system or on Internet Service Provider (ISP) web servers. If you want PerlMagick to install elsewhere, then provide a PREFIX option to PERL's configuration step via "--with-perl-options=PREFIX=/some/place". Other options accepted by MakeMaker are 'LIB', 'LIBPERL_A', 'LINKTYPE', and 'OPTIMIZE'. See the ExtUtils::MakeMaker(3) manual page for more information on configuring PERL extensions. --without-x: By default, ImageMagick will use X11 libraries if they are available. When --without-x is specified, use of X11 is disabled. The display, animate, and import programs are not built or installed. The remaining programs have reduced functionality such as no access to X11 fonts (consider using Postscript or TrueType fonts instead). --with-gs-font-dir: Specify the directory containing the Ghostscript Postscript Type 1 font files (e.g. "n022003l.pfb") so that they can be rendered using the FreeType library. If the font files are installed using the default Ghostscript installation paths (${prefix}/share/ghostscript/fonts), they should be discovered automatically by configure and specifying this option is not necessary. Specify this option if the Ghostscript fonts fail to be located automatically, or the location needs to be overridden. --with-windows-font-dir: Specify the directory containing MS-Windows-compatible fonts. This is not necessary when ImageMagick is running under MS-Windows. Building under Cygwin ImageMagick may be built under the Windows '95-XP Cygwin Unix-emulation environment available for free from http://www.cygwin.com/ X11R6 for Cygwin is available from http://xfree86.cygwin.com/ It is strongly recommended that the X11R6 package be installed since this enables ImageMagick's X11 support (animate, display, and import will work) and it includes the Freetype v2 DLL required to support TrueType and Postscript Type 1 fonts. Make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your PATH prior to running configure. If you are using Cygwin version 1.3.9 or later, you may specify the configure option '--enable-shared' to build Cygwin DLLs. Specifying '--enable-shared' is required if you want to build PerlMagick under Cygwin because Cygwin does not provide the libperl.a static library required to create a static PerlMagick. Building under MinGW & MSYS ImageMagick may be built using the free MinGW ("Minimalistic GNU for Windows") package version 1.1, available from http://www.mingw.org which consists of a GNU-based (e.g. gcc) compilation toolset plus headers and libraries required to build programs which are entirely based on standard Microsoft Windows DLLs. MSYS provides a Unix-like console shell window with sufficient functionality to run the ImageMagick configure script and execute make. Unlike the Cygwin build which creates programs based on a Unix-emulation DLL, and which uses Unix-style paths to access Windows files, the MinGW build creates native Windows console applications similar to the Visual C++ build. Please note that since the MinGW build is very new, some aspects of the installation may vary from Windows user's expectations, and that only a static build (no DLLs or modules) is currently supported. Once MinGW & MSYS have been installed, start the MSYS console (via the MSYS icon on the Windows desktop) and follow the Unix configure and build instructions. Note that the default installation prefix is "/usr/local" which installs the package into a MSYS directory. To install outside of the MSYS directory tree, you may specify an installation prefix like "/c/ImageMagick" which causes the package to be installed under the Windows directory "C:\ImageMagick". The installation directory structure will look very much like the Unix installation layout (e.g. "C:\ImageMagick\bin", "C:\ImageMagick\lib", "C:\ImageMagick\share", etc.). Any additional delegate libraries (e.g. libpng) will need to be built under MinGW in order to be used. Dealing with configuration failures: While configure is designed to ease installation of ImageMagick, it often discovers problems that would otherwise be encountered later when compiling ImageMagick. The configure script tests for headers and libraries by executing the compiler (CC) with the specified compilation flags (CFLAGS), pre-processor flags (CPPFLAGS), and linker flags (LDFLAGS). Any errors are logged to the file 'config.log'. If configure fails to discover a header or library please review this log file to determine why, however, please be aware that *errors in the config.log are normal* because configure works by trying something and seeing if it fails. An error in config.log is only a problem if the test should have passed on your system. After taking corrective action, be sure to remove the 'config.cache' file before running configure so that configure will re-inspect the environment rather than using cached values. Common causes of configure failures are: 1) a delegate header is not in the header include path (CPPFLAGS -I option); 2) a delegate library is not in the linker search/run path (LDFLAGS -L/-R option); 3) a delegate library is missing a function (old version?); 4) compilation environment is faulty. If all reasonable corrective actions have been tried and the problem appears to be due to a flaw in the configure script, please send a bug report to the configure script maintainer (currently bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us). All bug reports should contain the operating system type (as reported by 'uname -a') and the compiler/compiler-version. A copy of the configure script output and/or the config.log file may be valuable in order to find the problem. If you send a config.log, please also send a script of the configure output and a description of what you expected to see (and why) so the failure you are observing can be identified and resolved. Makefile Build Targets Once ImageMagick is configured, these standard build targets are available from the generated Makefiles:
           'make'
              Build the package

           'make install'
              Install the package

           'make check'
              Run tests using the installed ImageMagick ('make install' must
              be done first!).

           'make clean'
              Remove everything in the build directory created by 'make'

           'make distclean'
              Remove everything in the build directory created by 'configure'
              and 'make'. This is useful if you want to start over from scratch.

           'make uninstall'
            Remove all files from the system which are (or would be)
            installed by 'make install' using the current configuration.
              Note that this target is imperfect for PerlMagick since Perl
              no longer supports an 'uninstall' target.
Build & Install: Now that ImageMagick is configured, type make to build the package and make install to install it. Verifying The Build: To confirm your installation of the ImageMagick distribution was successful, type: ./utilities/display The ImageMagick logo is displayed. If the image colors are not correct use this command: ./utilities/display -visual default For a more serious test, you may run the ImageMagick test suite by typing make check Note that due to differences between the developer's environment and your own it is possible that some tests may be indicated as failed even though the results are ok. Differences between the developer's environment environment and your own may include the compiler, the CPU type, and the library versions used. The ImageMagick developers use the current release of all dependent libraries. "Image manipulation software that works like magick"