Re: Setting up HDRI in ImageMagick

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Gary Roach wrote:
> The instructions say to run ./configure --enable-hdri at the
> command line.  On Debian Stretch with KDE desktop and bash konsole this
> returns command not found.

You first need to go to the directory with the ./configure script.
Normally this is the top directory unpacked from a source tarball.

So the instruction
  ./configure --enable-hdri
in
  http://www.imagemagick.org/script/high-dynamic-range.php
is most probably a modification instruction for
  http://www.imagemagick.org/script/install-source.php
where you can see ./configure after the step
  cd ImageMagick-6.9.3

Well, the base instruction seems slightly outdated.
Currently the file
  http://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick.tar.gz
unpacks to directory
  ImageMagick-6.9.3-4

So my proposal for modified instructions is:

  cd $HOME
  mkdir image_magick_dir
  cd image_magick_dir
  wget http://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick.tar.gz
  tar xzf ImageMagick.tar.gz
  cd ImageMagick-6.9.3-4
  ./configure --enable-hdri
  make

(Be prepared that ImageMagick-6.9.3-5 or -6 emerges instead of -4.)

If this succeeds with no demotivating error message at the end, then
you should de-install the Debian binary version before you perform
the step

  sudo make install

After that, the command
  identify -version
should report HDRI. At least according to

I did not try out anything of this. Good luck to the trailblazers !


Have a nice day :)

Thomas