> From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 3 December 2003 7:28 PM > > I would like to contribute and maintain ImageMagick: > > 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 have built ImageMagick-5.5.3 as a shared library. It worked for me some time in July 2003. I indended to contribute the package myself, but .... (insert usual excuses). I am travelling on business, but I have one of my old build script with me. See below.
ImageMagick-5.5.3-1.patch
Description: ImageMagick-5.5.3-1.patch
ImageMagick-5.5.3-1.sh
Description: ImageMagick-5.5.3-1.sh
