[magick-users] building 6.0.2 on FreeBSD

[David T-G]

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Hi, all --

Well, after piloting out a lovely suite of image effects (text on a box,
raised lettering stamping, image watermarking, and splashing opaque text)
on my home box with 5.5.7, I find that the 5.5.6 we have on the web
server won't make a transparent watermark (the -dissolve step never
dissolves).  Arrrgh!

The FreeBSD port of IM is orphaned, so I have nobody to build it for me.
In I dive, with great trepidation :-/

I think my biggest challenge will be getting all of the delegate libs in
place; that's been a real problem for me in the past.  I'd appreciate any
tips anyone has to offer!  I know that we'll want GIF* (compressed, now
that the patent has expired), JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP*, CMYK, CMYKA, FPX,
AVI, MPG, XBM, XPM, XWD, and perhaps XCF, MNG and JNG formats along with
the usual LOGO, PLASMA, and other built-ins and the pbmplus-type
portables, and to and from PDF and to PS, TXT, HTML would be nice, and it
would be really great if I could add more fonts.

I'd also like to have both PerlMagick and the new PHP hooks built; I had
heard of PHP support but haven't seen it yet, and I see it mentioned in
the IM6 announcement.  What, if anything, do I need to do to include
that?

I plan to practice this on my Linux box at home before mucking about with
the web server, but I imagine that the only thing perhaps different on
the FreeBSD server will be some libs already present in the /usr/ports
tree, so if anything I should be doing the harder one first :-)  Still,
any gotchas that this will bring up I'd love to discover here rather than
while building.


TIA & HAND

:-D
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David T-G
davidtg at justpickone.org
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