Using magick++ from a directory (without make install)

[goalieca]

I need to use magick++ for some medical imaging research unfortunately i do not have permissions to install it. I have compiled it myself but the libraries remain sitting inside the build directory.

I have successfully compiled my programs that require it, i add to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH as needed. The programs give an error whenever i want to write a png file (or bmp, jpeg, tiff, etc.). It complains that there is no encode delegate found and that is all.

I did some googling and have tried to set the MAGICK_HOME variable without success. During compile of the libmagick it did show png support enabled. I cannot figure what else may be the problem.

[magick]

Add --disable-installed to your configure command line and rebuild ImageMagick. It will then respect the MAGICK_HOME environment variable. Try

• cd ImageMagick-6.3.4
  export DESTDIR=/home/whoami
  export MAGICK_HOME=/home/whoami/ImageMagick-6.3.4
  ./configure --disable-installed -disable-shared --without-frozenpaths --prefix=/ImageMagick-6.3.4
  make
  make install
  make install-data

Substitute a path on your system for DESTDIR.

[goalieca]

Thanks. I managed to get it installed and working.