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William Ross - 13 Nov 2003 15:37 GMT

has anyone had any success installing perlmagick on panther?

I'm using the fink-and-make method, which has always worked for me
before and is succinctly described by Randal in
http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.macosx/3812

fink on 10.3 is in some flux at the moment and they don't recommend
installing from source 'for the next few weeks', but that's what you
have to do in order to get a version of perlmagick which matches the
version of imagemagick you have just installed, so that's what i did,
and it seems to have compiled and installed without any bother. the
command-line tools work, and the libraries all appear to have ended up
where they should.

i then go into the perlmagick subdirectory, amend the library and
include locations as usual and try to make it. That appears to work
too: there are no warnings or complaints from running either the
makefile or make. however, on make test (or installing and trying to
use the module), I get a flood of errors like this:

/sw/temp/ImageMagick-5.5.1/PerlMagick/blib/arch/auto/Image/Magick/
Magick.bundle undefined reference to _xmlSwitchEncoding expected to be
defined in a dynamic image

which sounds like the old dyld in new clothes? Or maybe a compiler
mismatch? curses. I'm using the system 5.8.1rc3 that ships with
panther, and fink 0.6.1, both of which expect to use gcc3.3, I believe.
fink is selfupdating again at the moment, but that will take a while
(all i can get here is 28.8) so I thought I'd enquire. any advice would
be most welcome.

thanks

will

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William Ross - 17 Nov 2003 13:41 GMT

hello again.

I've got perlmagick working, at last.

it seems that panther has some linking quirk or other than can be
avoided by manually specifying libraries in the LIBS line of
Makefile.PL. I found this in a completely unrelated bug report about
installing DBD::Pg
(http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/dbdpg/bugs/bugupdate.php?619), and
indeed it works in this case too. If you add this to the LIBS line:

-ljpeg -lpng -lTIFF -lBZ2 -lxml2

then nearly all the loader errors in make test go away. I have no idea
why. Anyone?

The only errors that remain are to do with linking to XDPS, and I
believe those will only come up if you are trying to use Apple's X11
instead of the old fink one, which includes the necessary DPS
libraries. I suppose it shouldn't come as a surprise that the Apple
version does not.

But it seems a much better idea to use Apple's X, if possible, and you
can get around the DPS problem either by installing the imagemagick-nox
package instead (which gives you no X tools, but doesn't seem to mind
when it can't find dps), or by editing imagemagick.info to remove the
dependency on dps from its configuration.

Here's an amended version of Randal's recipe. I'm using the unstable
branch, but I expect the same tweaks work for the stable version as it
seems to be the same at the moment.

1) edit
/sw/fink/10.3/(stable|unstable)/main/finkinfo/graphics/imagemagick.info
so that
the ConfigureParams line has --without-dps instead of --with-dps
2) "fink install imagemagick" (This will take a while)
3) "fink list imagemagick"
4) Note the version number (n.n.n-n) by the version you have installed.
5) "cd; mkdir Build; cd Build" (getting to a scratchdir)
6) "tar xvfz /sw/src/ImageMagick-n.n.n.tar.gz; cd Image*/PerlMagick/"
7) edit Makefile.PL so that
INC begins with -I/sw/include
LIBS begins with -L/sw/lib
LIBS includes -ljpeg -lpng -lTIFF -lBZ2 -lxml2
after the path definitions (and as well as whatever other
specifications are there)
8) "perl Makefile.PL; make all install"
9) "cd; rm -rf Build"

it still fails a few tests, as always, but it loads ok and works fine,
as far as I can see, with the mainstream formats.

I hope this helps someone out.

will

PS. In the course of these lengthy experiments I also selfupdated to
fink 0.6.2, and for all I know that's what made the difference, making
these instructions completely redundant :)

On 13 Nov 2003, at 15:37, william ross wrote:

> has anyone had any success installing perlmagick on panther?
>
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>
> will

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William Ross - 18 Nov 2003 09:16 GMT

and here's a patch for PerlMagick/Makefile.PL. I hope it's in vaguely
the right format.

will

--- Makefile.PL.old    Tue Oct 15 02:42:49 2002
+++ Makefile.PL    Mon Nov 17 11:33:48 2003
@@ -60,13 +60,13 @@
'DEFINE'    => '-DHAVE_CONFIG_H', # e.g., '-DHAVE_SOMETHING'

# Header search specfication and preprocessor flags
- 'INC'    => '-I../ -I.. -D_REENTRANT -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
-I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 -I/usr/include/freetype2
-I/usr/include/libxml2',
+ 'INC'    => '-I../ -I.. -D_REENTRANT -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
-I/sw/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11
-I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libxml2',

# Install PerlMagick binary into ImageMagick bin directory
'INSTALLBIN'    => '/usr/local/bin',

# Library specification
- 'LIBS'    => ['-L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/local/lib
-lMagick -llcms -lfreetype -lXext -lXt -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lz -lpthread
-lm'],
+ 'LIBS'    => ['-L/sw/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/lib
-L/usr/local/lib -lMagick -ljpeg -lpng -lTIFF -lBZ2 -lxml2 -llcms
-lfreetype -lXext -lXt -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lz -lpthread -lm'],

# Perl binary name (if a Perl binary is built)
'MAP_TARGET'    => 'PerlMagick',

On 17 Nov 2003, at 13:41, william ross wrote:

> hello again.
>
> I've got perlmagick working, at last.

<snip>

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