Re: Building ImageMagick on Cygwin

2002-05-01 Thread perlspinr
The URL I promised (as the o.p. who started this thread): http://home.att.net/~perlspinr/IM_build.html That page will give some background information, as well as I am able at this time. Hope it helps those who might want the help. I am sure that many readers of this List don't want my "help"

RE: Building ImageMagick on Cygwin

2002-04-29 Thread Dockeen
I feel doubly stupid. I haven't got a clue about the issues of policies or politics he seems to be talking about, and I did not even get a clear picture of what you need to do to do the build, because of his taking so much time explaining why things don't work the normal way. On this note of per

RE: Building ImageMagick on Cygwin

2002-04-29 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] > If one does things in a > fairly standard plain manner: i.e. you don't have some stuff already > prepared or adapted but you just go and get the latest I~M~ source > package and unpack it and try to run `configure', you're going to have > trouble with a couple of libraries which you migh

Re: Building ImageMagick on Cygwin

2002-04-29 Thread Charles Wilson
Soren, having followed some of the discussion on the libpng list, I understand your frustration. However, NOBODY ELSE here on the cygwin list has any IDEA what you're talking about. You are ranting in front of the wrong audience -- why take out your frustrations with those other people on us?

Building ImageMagick on Cygwin

2002-04-29 Thread perlspinr
Hello, Heads up. Some persons reading this List might want to know this information. ImageMagick is not yet available as a binary Cygwin package. I have no way of knowing what the likelihood is of it becoming such a supported Cygwin package at any time in the future. Thus for now building Im