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:

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 Linux 6.0

i386 & alpha

EGCS 1.1.2

Dr. Alexander Zimmermann <Alexander.Zimmermann@fmi.uni-passau.de>

Red Hat Linux 7.0

i386

GCC 2.95.2

Dr. Alexander Zimmermann <Alexander.Zimmermann@fmi.uni-passau.de>

Red Hat Linux 7.0

i386

GCC "2.96" snapshot

???

Red Hat Linux 7.X

i386 & alpha

GCC 3.0

Dr. Alexander Zimmermann <Alexander.Zimmermann@fmi.uni-passau.de>

SGI IRIX 6.2, 6.5

MIPS

IRIX C++ 7.3.1.2m

Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>

SunOS 5.5.1

SPARC

Sun WorkShop CC 5.0

Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>

SunOS 5.6, 5.7, 5.8

SPARC

Sun Forte CC 5.3

Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>

HP-UX 11.00

PA-RISC

HP-UX aCC A.03.30

Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>

Mac OS 9

PowerPC

CodeWarrior Professional Release 6

Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@digapp.com>

Mac OS X 10.1 "Darwin"

PowerPC

GCC 2.95.2 (apple gcc -926)

John Cristy

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

LDFLAGS

Library paths (-L/somedir) to look for libraries. Systems that support the notion of a 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

Dr. Alexander Zimmermann maintains Linux RPMs of ImageMagick and Magick++. These may be downloaded from ftp://ftp.forwiss.uni-passau.de/pub/linux/local/ImageMagick/. This site is  mirrored periodically to the ImageMagick linux directory and from there to the many ImageMagick and Linux mirror sites. 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.