[fpc-devel] Problems with ImageMagick MagickWand

[Andrew Brunner]

Hi there,

I presently require ImageMagick to be installed along with my software.

The reason why I use it is merely to resize images from cameras downto 
about 1024xY where Y varies to keep aspect ratio intact.  I used to use 
FPImage to stretchdraw on a canvas but at the time it was really slow. 
Slowing down directory listings in the cloud (images served via http are 
converted in real-time)

My scaling needs are called hundreds of times concurrently for 
thumbnails as well.  So whenever the user opens a file the server must 
generate 1 thumbnail for each image in the directory. ImageMagick works 
fast on Linux and Windows.

Presently I cannot get even a simple program that uses ImageMagick to 
build on darwin.  I suspect the /ImageMagick/config build the libraries 
to x86_64.

It would be nice if i could remove my dependency of ImageMagick. Does 
anyone know the status of FPImage etc. to speed up image scaling native 
to FPC?

Bug report on ImageMagick linker error with sample program : 
http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=25373

Thanks very much,
Andrew Brunner