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RE: (R)Magick complete bundle [ reply ]
2010-01-26 20:39

by the way (it may help sombody) the procedure I followed can be found at http://scenari-platform.org/trac/dev-core/wiki/bui/mac/convert

By: Grégoire Deveaux

RE: (R)Magick complete bundle [ reply ]
2010-01-26 20:37

Hello Julian,
I would be very interested by feedbacks on how you managed to include RMagick in a mac os x app bundle.
I've been following a procedure for building a static ImageMagick but I can't find how to build a standalone version of RMagick.
Could you help me?

By: Julian Raschke

RE: (R)Magick complete bundle [ reply ]
2008-07-08 00:33

Okay, big thanks :)

By: Tim Hunter

RE: (R)Magick complete bundle [ reply ]
2008-07-07 21:00

I've never heard from anybody that's done this. ImageMagick supports a "static" build that links in all the dependent libraries, and an "uninstalled" build that uses the MAGICK_HOME environment variable to find things. This sounds like a good starting point.

You can read more about ImageMagick configuration here: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/advanced-unix-installation.php and here: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/install-source.php#windows.

By: Julian Raschke

RE: (R)Magick complete bundle [ reply ]
2008-07-07 16:54

I was thinking of deploying end-user friendly .app bundles :)

Pixelmator seems to statically link against ImageMagick as it comes as an .app bundle with no dependency on ImageMagick, yet uses it for mostly everything. So what I think I'd have to do is statically link all of ImageMagick into the RMagick bundle, but I have no idea if anyone has done that before.

By: Roger Pack

RE: (R)Magick complete bundle [ reply ]
2008-07-07 16:45

if it were a macport you could add a dependency of image magick.

By: Julian Raschke

(R)Magick complete bundle [ reply ]
2008-07-06 23:18

Hi,

I would love to use RMagick not just for web apps, but also for desktop apps/games. However, bundling it for installation seems like a major task, due to the dependency on a "standard" ImageMagick install.

The farthest I've gotten was on Windows, where I found that one can compile custom ImageMagick DLLs that don't depend on the Registry, and then I thought one ought to be able to link RMagick against that, and then ship all the necessary DLL's with the application. On the Mac, I have no clue so far whatsoever.

Any thoughts on this? Did anyone ever try to build an easily redistributable complete package of it, on either OS X or Windows? I will likely just try it again in the future, but advice from someone with more RMagick dev experience would probably help a lot then :)

Thanks,
Julian