Re: Fixing imagemagick on W32

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stephen Leake <address@hidden>
> Cc: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 16:46:31 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > The Imagemagick build is not officially supported in the MS-Windows
> > build, because no one submitted patches to make it behave like all the
> > other optional image libraries.  By that I mean: be able to run an
> > Emacs binary built with Imagemagick support on a system that doesn't
> > have the Imagemagick DLLs installed.  AFAIU, the image.c.diff hack
> > allows one to build Emacs with Imagemagick, but the resulting binary
> > will refuse to run on a system where it cannot load the Imagemagick
> > DLLs at startup.  That is not how we handle optional libraries in the
> > Windows build.
> >
> > So the right way of handling this problem is to modify the Emacs
> > Imagemagick support code in image.c so that it uses LOAD_DLL_FN etc.
> > (There's one complication with Imagemagick: it needs to load 2 DLLs
> > rather than one, and figuring out how to deal with that is part of the
> > job.)
> 
> I'd like to work on this.

Thank you.

> First I need a test; what elisp level functions use the imagemagick
> functions in image.c? 

Something that scales an image, perhaps in shr.el?