ImageMagick "display" and "convert" fail with a Visual C++ runtime error

[Igor Peshansky]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Dmitry Golovaty wrote:

> Thanks - the culprit is the MATLAB entry
>
> /cygdrive/c/Program Files/MATLAB/R2007a/bin/win32
>
> in the path; removing it fixes the problem ... is there way to pluck
> it out automatically (e.g. in .bashrc) when the path is imported from
> Windows at Cygwin start-up? Thanks again and sorry for starting
> another thread - I did not subscribe in time to get the original
> message.

PATH is usually processed left-to-right.  As an alternative to what Brian
suggested, simply prepending C:\cygwin\bin to the PATH should work.

FWIW, the above is already done in the standard shell startup scripts, so
unless you're using custom .*rc scripts, you probably attempted to invoke
ImageMagick from a Windows command prompt.  One word of warning for
working in that mode: some of the programs in /bin are symbolic links or
scripts that Windows does not understand.  You're better off invoking
Cygwin programs from a Cygwin shell, unless you're sure they are .exe
files.
	Igor
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