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/svn/i/ImageMagick-6.3.3-0.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-0.21, 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-1.16, libexif-0.6.13, libjpeg-6b, libpng-1.2.16,
librsvg-2.16.1, LibTIFF-3.8.2, libxml2-2.6.27, and RALCGM (or
RALCGM-3.50)
Optional Graphics Utilities
ESP Ghostscript-8.15.4 or AFPL
Ghostscript-8.53, GhostPCL, GIMP-2.2.12,
Gnuplot,
Graphviz-2.12 (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 -e "s/\xc2\xae/\\\[rg\]/g" \
-e "s/B...'e./Be/" utilities/ImageMagick.1.in &&
./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.