Introduction to ImageMagick
ImageMagick is a collection of
tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in
various image formats. Image processing operations are available
from the command line. Bindings for Perl and C++ are also
available.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6
platform.
Package Information
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Download (FTP):
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.8.9-7.tar.xz
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Download MD5 sum: 763db53af657867e067cc74d6a532f49
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Download size: 7.3 MB
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Estimated disk space required: 148 MB (with typical
dependencies, additional 29 MB to run the test suite,
reputedly 450 MB with all dependencies)
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Estimated build time: 2.4 SBU (typical build - additional 5.4
SBU to run the test suite and 12.6 SBU to run the validation
suite)
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
Note
The ImageMagick source releases
are updated frequently and the version shown above may no longer
be available from the download locations. You can download a more
recent version and use the existing BLFS instructions to install
it. Chances are that it will work just fine, but this has not
been tested by the BLFS team. If the package version shown above
is not available from the locations shown above, or from the
legacy/ directory at ftp.ImageMagick.org/pub/ImageMagick you can
download it from the BLFS package server at
http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/BLFS/svn/i/ImageMagick-6.8.9-7.tar.xz.
ImageMagick Dependencies
Recommended
Xorg
Libraries
The optional dependencies listed below should be installed if you
need support for the specific format or the conversion tool the
dependency provides. Many of the dependencies' capabilities and
uses are described in the “MAGICK
DELEGATES” section of the README.txt file located in the source tree.
Additional information about the dependencies can be found in the
Install-unix.txt file located in the
source tree as well as issuing the ./configure --help command. A
summary of this information, as well as some additional notes can
be viewed on-line at http://www.imagemagick.org/script/advanced-unix-installation.php.
Optional System Utilities
Cups-1.7.5, cURL-7.37.1,
FFmpeg-2.3.3, p7zip-9.20.1 (LZMA), SANE-1.0.24, Wget-1.15, xdg-utils-1.1.0-rc2, xterm-310, Dmalloc,
Electric Fence, FFTW, PGP or GnuPG-2.0.26 (you'll have to do some hacking to
use GnuPG), Profiles,
and ufraw
(for raw formats listed in www/formats.html)
Optional Graphics Libraries
JasPer-1.900.1, Little CMS-1.19 or
Little
CMS-2.6, libexif-0.6.21, libjpeg-turbo-1.3.1,
libpng-1.6.13, librsvg-2.40.3, LibTIFF-4.0.3,
libwebp-0.4.1, Pango-1.36.7, DjVuLibre,
FlashPIX
(libfpx), JBIG-KIT, libgxps,
Liquid Rescale,
OpenEXR,
OpenJPEG 2,
and RALCGM (or
ralcgm)
Optional Graphics Utilities
ghostscript-9.14, Gimp-2.8.14, Graphviz-2.38.0, Inkscape-0.48.5, Blender, corefonts, DejaVu fonts, GhostPCL,
Gnuplot,
POV-Ray, and
Radiance
Optional Conversion Tools
Enscript-1.6.6, texlive-20140525, AutoTrace, GeoExpress
Command Line Utilities, AKA MrSID Utilities (binary package),
hp2xx, html2ps,
libwmf,
UniConvertor, and Utah Raster Toolkit
(or URT-3.1b)
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/imagemagick
Installation of ImageMagick
Install ImageMagick by running the
following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--enable-hdri \
--with-modules \
--with-perl \
--disable-static &&
make
Now, as the root user:
make install
To test the installation, issue: make
check. For a more comprehensive test, run the
ImageMagick validation suite, also
after the package is installed. Note that the EPS, PS, and PDF
tests require a working Ghostscript. One test needs "Helvetica" from
"Standard Fonts" which are optionally installed in ghostscript-9.14.
Command Explanations
--enable-hdri: Enables
building of a high dynamic range version of ImageMagick.
--with-modules: Enables
support for dynamically loadable modules.
--with-perl: Enables
building and installing of PerlMagick.
--disable-static: Prevents
the static libraries being built and installed.
--with-gslib: Enables support to use
the Ghostscript shared library.
--with-rsvg: Enables support to use the
librsvg library.
--with-autotrace: Enables support to
use the Autotrace library.
--with-wmf: Enables support to use the
libwmf library.
--with-gvc: Enables support to use
GraphViz.
--with-windows-font-dir= <Some/Directory>: This
option specifies the directory where the Windows CoreFonts are
installed.
--with-dejavu-font-dir= <Some/Directory>: This
option specifies the directory where the DejaVu fonts are
installed.
The options and parameters listed above are the only ones you
should have to pass to the configure script to activate all
the delegate dependencies. All other dependencies will be
automatically detected and utilized in the build if they are
installed.