Making it easier to use ImageMagick libraries on Windows

[DanKegel]

In viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8577
a user talked about confusion when trying to use the ImageMagick API
in Visual C++.
The standard answer he was given was "Just copy the project files from the demo directory",
but IMHO ImageMagick could do better than that.

Boost, for instance, provides very clear instructions
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_46_0/mo ... st-library

Part of what makes life easier for casual Boost users is that their headers include pragmas like this:

#ifndef IMAGEMAGICK_NOAUTOLINK
#if DEBUG
#pragma comment(lib, "Core_DB_magick_.lib"
#else
#pragma comment(lib, "Core_RL_magick_.lib"
#endif
#endif

so users don't have to know or care what the individual libraries are named;
they only need to tell Visual C++ what directory they're in.

Would there be any interest in a patch adding this feature?

[magick]

Post a URL to the patch. We'll test it and if it works, we'll include it in the next point release of ImageMagick. Thanks.

[dlemstra]

Did you receive a patch for this?

[magick]

Not that we can recall.

[dlemstra]

I will submit one later this week.

EDIT:

Patches have been applied. You should define STATIC_MAGICK to enable this:

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#define STATIC_MAGICK
#include "Magick++.h"

When you are using STATIC_MAGICK and don't want auto linking magick you should define NOAUTOLINK_MAGICK

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#define STATIC_MAGICK
#define NOAUTOLINK_MAGICK
#include "Magick++.h"