From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2008-01-20T05:21:58+09:00
Subject: Re: My experience of installing RMagick on windows

Irfan Ahmad wrote:
> Hi
> I am trying to install RMagick 2.1.0 on Windows XP. I already have
> installed the required version of ImageMagick. Here are the steps I
> adopted.
> 
> 1. I tried the command "gem install rmagick", I got this error message
> 
> checking for Ruby version >= 1.8.2... yes
> checking for stdint.h... no
> checking for sys/types.h... no
> checking for magick/MagickCore.h... no
> Can't install RMagick 2.0.0. Can't find MagickCore.h.
> 
> *** extconf.rb failed ***
> Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
> necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
> details.  You may need configuration options.
> 
> 2. I checked the "extconf.rb" file and I was astonished to see that the
> path for ImageMagick and Ruby were hard coded. This is really a very bad
> piece of coding.
> 
>   $CPPFLAGS = %Q{-I"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Platform SDK for
> Windows Server 2003 R2\\Include" -I"C:\\Program
> Files\\ImageMagick-#{$1}-Q8\\include"}
>   # The /link option is required by the Makefile but causes warnings in
> the mkmf.log file.
>   $LDFLAGS = %Q{/link /LIBPATH:"C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Platform
> SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2\\Lib" /LIBPATH:"C:\\Program
> Files\\ImageMagick-#{$1}-Q8\\lib" /LIBPATH:"C:\\ruby\\lib"}
>   $LOCAL_LIBS = 'CORE_RL_magick_.lib X11.lib'
> 
> 3. I do not have ImageMagick and Ruby on these paths so I changed the
> paths and tried to run the extconf.rb file manually. But it gave me the
> same error.
> 
> Can someone please help me installing RMagick for windows?
> 
> Thanks,

http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html#win

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