From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2010-07-22T14:41:33+09:00
Subject: Re: how to make "gem install rmagick" work?

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Richard Conroy
<richard.conroy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alternatively the JRuby gem rmagick4j uses a completely different native
> library to do the rendering
> activities (Batik I think). As a result, its installation process is
> considerably easier.
>
> C;\>jruby -S gem install rmagick4j
>
> I don't know if there are any API level discrepancies between rmagick and
> rmagick4j however.

rmagick4j is definitely incomplete, but sometimes it has enough for
individual use cases.

And FWIW, it just uses Java2D libraries shipped with every JDK/JVM, so
there shouldn't be any external dependencies (if I remember right).

Also of interest: rmagick almost installs and works now with JRuby's
new C extension support, thanks to Tim Felgentreff...though of course
the native library issues that prevent running on Windows are no
different for us. Native sux.

- Charlie