RE: Problem installing PerlMagick 6.02

["Bryan Thrall" <thrall at vss dot fsi dot com>]

Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Hello Bryan,
>
> Am Freitag, 8. Oktober 2004 um 19:23 schriebst du:
>
>> I am trying to install PerlMagick on my WinXP box with Cygwin, and
>> everything seems to install (after some tweaking of the build
>> process, described below) fine.  Except that none of the PerlMagick
>> tests pass and when I run the demo, I get this error:
>
>> PerlMagick-6.02/demo$ make
>> perl demo.pl
>> Read...
>> Exception 435: unable to open image `': No such file or directory at
>> demo.pl line 14. Exception 435: unable to open image `': No such
>> file or directory at demo.pl line 18. Exception 410: no images
>> defined `label' at demo.pl line 19.
>> make: *** [all] Error 10
>
>
>> Using the Cygwin ImageMagick package.  I've also built and installed
>> ImageMagick 6.08 myself and have no problems with it (display and
>> convert work fine, for example). ImageMagick is installed in
>> /usr/local. The errors produced from my own ImageMagick install are
>> slightly different:
>
>> PerlMagick-6.02/demo$ make
>> perl demo.pl
>> Read...
>> Exception 435: unable to open image `ck': No such file or directory
>> at demo.pl line 14. Exception 435: unable to open image `f': No such
>> file or directory at demo.pl line 18. Exception 410: no images
>> defined `label' at demo.pl line 19.
>> make: *** [all] Error 10
>
>> It looks like the image name is being truncated somehow ('ck' is the
>> last part of 'NULL:black' and 'f' is the last part of 'model.gif'),
>> but I don't know enough about DLLs and perl to guess why that might
>> be happening.
>
> There is a bug in cygwin-1.5.11, do you use 1.5.11?
> Then please try the latest snapshot and report back.
>
> And update ExtUtils::MakeMaker, the .dll.a bug was fixed a year ago,
> but it seems that MakeMaker in the stable release of perl was not
> updated.
>
>
> Gerrit

I think I know what the problem was, now.  I thought I'd uninstalled the
Cygwin ImageMagick packages, but for some reason I still had libMagick6 on
my system.  So, while some stuff worked fine and display gave me 6.0.8 as
the version, PerlMagick was dynamically loading the 6.0.4 DLL.  Obviously,
there's a mismatch there.  When I finally figured this out and removed the
libMagick6 package, everything worked fine.

I now also have PerlMagick (from ImageMagick's 6.0.4-5 release) running fine
with Cygwin's ImageMagick packages, though I had to copy a couple of
ImageMagick 6.0.4-5's mgk files into /usr/lib/ImageMagick-6.04/config
(namely coder.mgk, log.mgk, and magic.mgk).

Thanks for listening, everything's resolved now :-)

--
Bryan Thrall
Realtime Software Engineer
FlightSafety International


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