ImageMagick / GraphicsMagick

Hi all,
a couple of times the request for ImageMagick / GraphicsMagick came up here 
in the forums, and so I tried to compile the beast....
well, it was very easy, and my goal was to build the php_magick extension and 
use it from PHP....
but the PHP extension crashes, and I had no more time to look into this; I 
did the latest GD2 extension which is currently sufficient for me, and I 
cantr spend more time on it...
however if someone wants to start playing with it, and try to fix the abend 
with the PHP extension, then you can dowbload my builds and patches here:
http://www.gknw.com/test/magick/

I have the stuff now nearly three months laying around, and I need at least 
some help from testers willing to abend their servers....

have fun, Guenter.

""Guenter Knauf, DevNet SysOp 32"
<devforums@novell.com>" wrote in
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> Hi all,
> a couple of times the request for ImageMagick / GraphicsMagick came up
> here in the forums, and so I tried to compile the beast....
> well, it was very easy, and my goal was to build the php_magick
> extension and use it from PHP....
> but the PHP extension crashes, and I had no more time to look into this;
> I did the latest GD2 extension which is currently sufficient for me, and
> I cantr spend more time on it...
> however if someone wants to start playing with it, and try to fix the
> abend with the PHP extension, then you can dowbload my builds and
> patches here: http://www.gknw.com/test/magick/
> 
> I have the stuff now nearly three months laying around, and I need at
> least some help from testers willing to abend their servers....

    	I'm willing to ABEND my test servers with this if I can access it from 
PERL.  I do zero PHP programming as everything is in PERL, and wish to 
continue with a pure-PERL solution for these large projects I'm working on.

    	ImageMagick and PostgreSQL together are the major pieces that will 
make it possible for me to keep the up-and-coming projects on NetWare, and 
so I'm naturally very excited about what you've done -- thank you!

-- 
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Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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""Randolf Richardson, DevNet SysOp 29" <rr@8x.ca>"
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> ""Guenter Knauf, DevNet SysOp 32"
<devforums@novell.com>" wrote in
> novell.devsup.opensource: 
> 
>> Hi all,
>> a couple of times the request for ImageMagick / GraphicsMagick came up
>> here in the forums, and so I tried to compile the beast....
>> well, it was very easy, and my goal was to build the php_magick
>> extension and use it from PHP....
>> but the PHP extension crashes, and I had no more time to look into
>> this; I did the latest GD2 extension which is currently sufficient for
>> me, and I cantr spend more time on it...
>> however if someone wants to start playing with it, and try to fix the
>> abend with the PHP extension, then you can dowbload my builds and
>> patches here: http://www.gknw.com/test/magick/
>> 
>> I have the stuff now nearly three months laying around, and I need at
>> least some help from testers willing to abend their servers....
> 
> I'm willing to ABEND my test servers with this if I can access it from 
> PERL.  I do zero PHP programming as everything is in PERL, and wish to 
> continue with a pure-PERL solution for these large projects I'm working
> on. 
> 
> ImageMagick and PostgreSQL together are the major pieces that will 
> make it possible for me to keep the up-and-coming projects on NetWare,
> and so I'm naturally very excited about what you've done -- thank you!

    	Guenter, did you miss this message?  I didn't see a reply, and was 
worried that it might have been missed for some reason.

    	I'm quite willing to do quite a bit of testing since I will need to 
use many of ImageMagick's features.

-- 
Randolf Richardson - rr@8x.ca
Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
http://www.8x.ca/

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Hi Randy,
>          Guenter, did you miss this message?  I didn't see a reply, and
>          was 
> worried that it might have been missed for some reason.
> 
>          I'm quite willing to do quite a bit of testing since I will
>          need to 
> use many of ImageMagick's features.
> 
no, sorry; I simply forgot to reply, but only cause I have no solution for 
you; I have not done the Perl extension, and if you want to help its 
necessary that you start with the commandline tools - if the lib doesnt work 
its senseless to look for bindings; once the lib works with the commandline 
tools then the php binding is ready, and if that works too we can try to ask 
either Christian or teh Novell folks for compiling the Perl xs stub.
So the start point is to check if/when/why the lib crashes...

greets, Guenter.

""Guenter Knauf, DevNet SysOp 32"
<devforums@novell.com>" wrote in
novell.devsup.opensource: 

> Hi Randy,
> 
>> Guenter, did you miss this message?  I didn't see a reply, and was 
>> worried that it might have been missed for some reason.
>> 
>> I'm quite willing to do quite a bit of testing since I will need to 
>> use many of ImageMagick's features.
> 
> no, sorry; I simply forgot to reply, but only cause I have no solution

    	No worries!  Newsgroups that don't expire old messages are great for 
long-term follow-ups (thanks for responding).  =)

> for you; I have not done the Perl extension, and if you want to help its
> necessary that you start with the commandline tools - if the lib doesnt
> work its senseless to look for bindings; once the lib works with the
> commandline tools then the php binding is ready, and if that works too
> we can try to ask either Christian or teh Novell folks for compiling the
> Perl xs stub. So the start point is to check if/when/why the lib
> crashes... 

    	Thanks for that explanation.  I guess it must be a lot more work to 
hook directly into the functions instead of just accessing the command-line 
tools ... ?  =(

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Randolf Richardson - rr@8x.ca
Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
http://www.8x.ca/

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