Installing Magick++ General In order to compile Magick++ you must have access to a standard C++ implementation. The author uses gcc 3.1 (GNU C++) which is available under UNIX and under the Cygwin UNIX-emulation environment for Windows. Standards compliant commercial C++ compilers should also work fine. Most modern C++ compilers for Microsoft Windows or the Mac should work (project files are provided for Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0). It was decided that Magick++ will be around for the long-haul, so its API definition depends on valuable C++ features which should be common in all current and future C++ compilers. The compiler must support the following C++ standard features: * templates * static constructors * C++-style casts (e.g. static_cast) * bool type * string class () * exceptions () * namespaces * Standard Template Library (STL) (e.g. , ) The author has personally verified that Magick++ compiles and runs using the following compiler/platform combinations: Tested Configurations Operating System Architecture Compiler SunOS 5.6, 5.7, 5.8 ("Solaris 2.6, 7, & 8) SPARC GCC 3.0.4 SunOS 5.7 ("Solaris 7") SPARC Sun Workshop 5.0 C++ SunOS 5.8 ("Solaris 8") SPARC Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3 FreeBSD 4.0 Intel Pentium II GCC 2.95 Windows NT 4.0 SP6a Intel Pentium II Visual C++ 6.0 Standard Edition Windows XP Intel Pentium IV Visual C++ 6.0 Standard Edition Service Pack 5 Windows '98 + Cygwin 1.3.10 Intel Pentium III GCC 2.95.3-5 Windows NT 4.0 SP6a Intel Pentium II GCC 2.95.3-5 Windows XP + Cygwin 1.3.10 Intel Pentium IV GCC 2.95.3-5 Users of Magick++ have reported that the following configurations work with Magick++: Other Known Working Configurations Operating System Architecture Compiler Reported By Red Hat i386 & alpha EGCS 1.1.2 Dr. Alexander Zimmermann Linux 6.0 Red Hat i386 GCC 2.95.2 Dr. Alexander Zimmermann Linux 7.0 Red Hat i386 GCC "2.96" ??? Linux 7.0 snapshot Red Hat Dr. Alexander Zimmermann Linux 7.Xi386 & alpha GCC 3.0 SGI IRIX MIPS IRIX C++ Albert Chin-A-Young 6.2, 6.5 7.3.1.2m SunOS Sun WorkShop Albert Chin-A-Young 5.5.1 SPARC CC 5.0 SunOS 5.6, 5.7,SPARC Sun Forte CC Albert Chin-A-Young 5.8 5.3 HP-UX PA-RISC HP-UX aCC Albert Chin-A-Young 11.00 A.03.30 Mac OS 9 PowerPC CodeWarrior Leonard Rosenthol Professional Release 6 Mac OS X GCC 2.95.2 10.1 PowerPC (apple gcc Cristy "Darwin" -926) Please let me know if you have successfully built and executed Magick++ using a different configuration so that I can add to the table of verified configurations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Unix/Linux Building From Source Magick++ is now built using the ImageMagick configure script and Makefiles. Please follow the installation instructions provided by its README.txt file. The following instructions pertain to the Magick++ specific configuration and build options. To install ImageMagick plus Magick++ under Unix, installation should be similar to ./configure [ --prefix=/prefix ] make make install The library is currently named similar to 'libMagick++.a' (and/or libMagick++.so.5.0.39) and is installed under prefix/lib while the headers are installed with Magick++.h being installed in prefix/include and the remaining headers in prefix/include/Magick++. To influence the options the configure script chooses, you may specify 'make' option variables when running the configure script. For example, the command ./configure CXX=CC CXXFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix specifies additional options to the configure script. The following table shows the available options. Environment Variables That Effect Configure Make Option Variable Description CXX Name of C++ compiler (e.g. 'CC -Xa') to use compiler 'CC -Xa' CXXFLAGS Compiler flags (e.g. '-g -O2') to compile with CPPFLAGS Include paths (-I/somedir) to look for header files Library paths (-L/somedir) to look for libraries. Systems that support the notion of a LDFLAGS library run-path may additionally require -R/somedir or '-rpath /somedir' in order to find shared libraries at run time. LIBS Extra libraries (-lsomelib) required to link Installing Linux RPMs Please note that the default version of the C++ compiler delivered with the system may not be sufficient to support Magick++. Use of GCC 2.95 or later is strongly recommended under Linux. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windows '9X, NT, 2000, ME, & XP Visual C++ Windows '95 through Windows XP are supported by the ImageMagick source package for NT available in the 'win2k' subdirectory of the ImageMagick ftp site (and mirrors). The ImageMagick source package for NT provides sources to ImageMagick, Magick++, add-on libraries (e.g. JPEG), and a ready-made Visual C++ 6.0 build environment. Please read the configuration and build instructions in README.txt (under the heading "Windows Win2K/95 VISUAL C++ 6.0 COMPILATION") in order to build Magick++. Cygwin & GCC It is possible to build both ImageMagick and Magick++ under the Cygwin Unix-emulation environment for Windows NT. Obtain and install Cgywin from http://www.cygwin.com/ . An X11R6 environment for Cygwin is available from http://www.cygwin.com/xfree/ .To build using Cygwin and GCC, follow the instructions for building under Unix. ImageMagick and Magick++ do not yet include support for building Windows DLLs under Cygwin so do not enable dynamic libraries when building ImageMagick.