[magick-users] Success at last! Re: Day three (4) of trying to install ImageMagick on Windows 2000 / IIS

[Joshua Boughey]

Yay!  Finally got it installed.  Thanks to Mike Southern for pointing the 
way....

I had originally tried to download ImageMagick-i686-pc-windows.exe, the 
file indicated (and linked) by IM's Windows Quick Start doc, but it was 
nowhere to be found on the ftp site.  So I did a Google search for the 
filename and found a copy here:

http://ring.maffin.ad.jp/archives/pc/meadow/snapshot/

I downloaded the file, copied it to the C:\ImageMagick folder on my server, 
and double-clicked it to launch the installer.  I checked the option to 
install the Perl modules.  It installed 5.5.3 for ActivePerl 5.8 build 804, 
and passed the test with no MSVCR70.dll dependencies or other issues.  Like 
butter!  I haven't tried the Perl stuff yet but I have gotten past the 
first major hurdle and I can once again hear the birds singing.

It would make a lot of sense to make this file available on the 
Image-Magick ftp site again until the issues with the newer .exe's is resolved.

Thanks to everyone for all your suggestions and help.  I will now get on 
with my life.  ;)

At 06:36 PM 8/7/2003 -0400, Mike Southern wrote:
>I have found an ImageMagick-i686-pc-windows.exe install file. Can't remember
>where I got it, but it works perfectly.
>
>It's a friendly windows setup file.
>
>Select the install options that you need, ensuring that ImageMagick for perl
>is also selected (it isn't, by default).
>
>Be patient with the install - a dos window appears, apparently doing
>nothing, but eventually dos messages come up.
>
>When the process is done, image-macgick in completeion, with the perl
>module, should be installed.
>
>Reboot and check it.
>
>The web share method - IIS, Apache, Omnipro - doesn't matter.
>
>I have run this install now, along with PDFAPI2, Ghostscript, and a couple
>of other required modules, on 5 regional web servers for ad proofing
>(internal WAN), and it works so well it's predictable.
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>Maybe the method you are using now is not making the .ppd file available.
>After unzipping, is there an installation process to follow?
>
>
>
>On 8/7/03 2:32 PM, Joshua Boughey at josh_boughey at harvard.edu wrote:
>
> > I downloaded the PerlMagick-full.zip yesterday.  I re-downloaded it today
> > (per your suggestion) and had the exact same problem.
> >
> > I am getting it from here:
> >
> > http://www.dylanbeattie.net/magick/download/latest/
> >
> > I have unzipped it into my C:\TEMP directory, as instructed, but when I 
> run:
> >
> > C:\TEMP>ppm install Image-Magick.ppd
> >
> > I STILL get the error:
> >
> > Error: No suitable installation target found for package Image-Magick.
> >
> > When I run Perl -v it says:
> >
> > This is perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32... etc
> >
> > Binary build 806 provided by ActiveState Corp.
> >
> > ...so I believe I DO have build 5.8.0 and I think it is the ActiveState
> > version.
> >
> > What do I have to do to get this to work?  Do I need to install the full
> > Image-Magick package first?  Very frustrated and dead in the water.
> >
> > At 09:20 AM 8/7/2003 +0200, you wrote:
> >> At 15:56 06/08/2003, Joshua Boughey wrote:
> >>> If I run ImageMagick-5.5.7-Q16-windows-dll.exe it appears to install, but
> >>> when I try to test it, I get error messages about needing MSVCR70.dll,
> >>> MSVCP70.dll, MFC70.dll and MFCu.dll, respectively.
> >>
> >> This was an error in the release which the kind Image Magick people was
> >> going to be fixed yesterday - when did you download your binaries?
> >>
> >>
> >>> Then I downloaded PerlMagick-full.zip via this page:
> >>> http://www.dylanbeattie.net/magick/downloads.html. The text says: This is
> >>> all you need to install PerlMagick. This returns the error message:
> >>>
> >>> Error: No suitable installation target found for package Image-Magick.
> >>
> >> There is a difference between the version of perl you are running
> >> (probably 5.6) and the version of perl Image Magick was compiled for 
> (5.8).
> >>
> >> If you are in face running 5.8, then you're probably not running
> >> ActiveState - me neither. Let me know if this is the case and I'll tell
> >> you how to tweak things to get going. When you (and I) have the new IM
> >> binaries.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Lee
> >
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