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Hi,

This would be a question for the people who create the Windows sources for ImageMagick.
We came across this when looking at the source code differences for Windows and Unix...

It looks like the Windows sources located at ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/windows are complete supersets of the Unix sources. Is this correct? That's what it looks like, but I wanted to make sure.

If ImageMagick-windows.zip can be used to build all the Unix versions as well, then the non-Windows source archives in ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ aren't really necessary...

If anyone can confirm or explain the differences, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,

FS

The Windows source distribution is the Unix source distribution plus about 10 delegate libraries. It is a convenience for Windows users so they do not need to download/build/install delegate libraries such as PNG and JPEG. This step is generally not necessary under Unix since JPEG and PNG, for example, are typically already installed on your system

Sounds good.

Thanks for your reply.


FS