[ITP] ImageMagick

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Wed Dec 3 13:49:00 GMT 2003


Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Question for other maintainers: ImageMagick defaults to building as a 
> static library... I have not yet tried to build it as a shared library; 
> does anyone have an instant educated guess as to whether or not it will 
> be a good idea to pursue a shared library?  It would save me a lot of 
> wasted effort if someone told me right now that "ImageMagick won't work 
> as a shared lib on Cygwin because foo isn't a shared library" or that 
> ImageMagick is known to use undefined symbols at link time.  Thanks.

I built IM shared once upon a time.  I believe all I needed to do was 
relibtoolize, but I'll check.

Vote pro, BTW.

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Chuck



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