From: Jarmo Pertman <jarmo.p@...>
Date: 2010-07-22T19:40:10+09:00
Subject: Re: how to make "gem install rmagick" work?

There are already opened issues under RMagick for 1.9.1 and Windows:
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=27765&group_id=12&atid=134
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=6065&group_id=12&atid=134

I succeeded some time ago compiling RMagick to Ruby 1.9.1 by using
instructions at http://www.waydotnet.com/blog/2010/02/rmagick-on-ruby-1-9-1-i386-mingw32-work-d/

Jarmo


On Jul 22, 8:41 am, Charles Oliver Nutter <head...@headius.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Richard Conroy
>
> <richard.con...@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