Introduction to ImageMagick
ImageMagick is a collection of
tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in
various image formats. Image processing operations are available
from the command line. Bindings to various programming languages
are also available.
Package Information
The ImageMagick source releases
are updated frequently and the version shown above may no longer be
available from the download locations. You can download a more
recent version and use the existing BLFS instructions to install
it. Chances are that it will work just fine, but this has not been
tested by the BLFS team. If the package version shown above is not
available from the locations shown above, you can download it from
the BLFS package server at
http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/BLFS/6.2.0/i/ImageMagick-6.2.8-0.tar.bz2.
ImageMagick Dependencies
Recommended
X Window System
The optional dependencies listed below should be installed if you
need support for the specific format or the conversion tool the
dependency provides. Many of the dependencies' capabilities and
uses are described in the “MAGICK
DELEGATES” section of the README.txt file located in the source tree.
Additional information about the dependencies can be found in the
Install-unix.txt file located in the
source tree as well as issuing the ./configure --help command. A summary of
this information, as well as some additional notes can be viewed
on-line at
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/advanced-unix-installation.php.
Optional System Utilities
pkg-config-0.20, CUPS-1.2.7 or LPRng-3.8.28 (or any other print utility
that provides an lpr
command), dcraw, Dmalloc, Electric
Fence, PGP or GnuPG-1.4.3 (you'll have to do some
hacking to use GnuPG), SANE-1.0.17, and Wget-1.10.2
Optional Graphics Libraries
corefonts, FlashPIX (or
FlashPIX library), FreeType-2.1.10, Jasper, JBIG-KIT, little cms-1.15,
libexif-0.6.13, libjpeg-6b, libpng-1.2.12, librsvg-2.14.4, LibTIFF-3.8.2, libxml2-2.6.26, and RALCGM (or RALCGM-3.50)
Optional Graphics Utilities
ESP Ghostscript-8.15.2 or AFPL Ghostscript-8.53, GhostPCL, GIMP-2.2.12, Gnuplot,
Graphviz-2.8 (requires a >2.8
development snapshot), POV-Ray, and
Radiance
Optional Conversion Tools
AutoTrace, Enscript-1.6.4, hp2xx, html2ps, libwmf, MPEG-2 Video
Codec, Netpbm, teTeX-3.0, Transfig,
txt2html (requires Module::Build-0.2801 and
Perl Module
Getopt::ArgvFile), and Utah
Raster Toolkit (or URT-3.1b)
User Notes:
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/imagemagick
Installation of ImageMagick
Install Imagemagick by running the
following commands:
sed -i "s/\xc3\xa9/\\\\['e]/" utilities/ImageMagick.1 &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-modules &&
make
To test the results, issue: make
check. Note that some of the tests may fail due to
system and/or build parameter settings. In a recent test build
performed on a current LFS SVN (20060508) platform with all the
delegate dependencies installed, 11 of the 714 tests failed.
Now, as the root user:
make install
Command Explanations
sed -i "s/\xc3\xa9/\\\\['e]/"
utilities/ImageMagick.1: One man page is installed
with character encoding not displayable using the Man-db package. This command changes the
offending bytes to characters man can properly display.
--with-modules: Enables support
for dynamically loadable modules.
--with-gslib=/usr/lib: Enables support to
use the Ghostscript shared library.
--with-fpx: Enables support to use the
FlashPix library.
--with-windows-font-dir=<Some/Directory>: This
option specifies the directory where the Windows CoreFonts are
installed.
The options and parameters listed above are the only ones you
should have to pass to the configure script to activate all the
delegate dependencies. All other dependencies will be automatically
detected and utilized in the build if they are installed.