From: Tim Hunter <cyclists@...>
Date: 2004-12-20T21:37:40+09:00
Subject: Re: RMagick 1.7.0 for Windows -- requires X Windows server?

Sarah Tanembaum wrote:
> Hi Kaspar, is it true that ImageMagick does not have native windows
> display? PHP seems to work with the native windows, or perhaps thru the
> browsers?
> 
> At any case, I tried it also with X Windows(cygwin) as well, and it
> still give me the following error:

Sarah, 

RMagick's display and animate methods require a X server. This is part of
ImageMagick's *nix heritage. I need to be more explicit about this in the
documentation.

When I'm working on Windows I write the image to a file and then view it
with an external image viewer. You can view animated GIF files with your
web browser.

They don't work under Cygwin is because the RMagick gem is configured for
native Windows.