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VIPS 7.12
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VIPS
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VIPS is an image processing library. It's good for large images and for
colour. There's a GUI as well, see the VIPS website:
http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk
There are packages for most linuxes and OS X. There is a pre-compiled windows
binary on the vips website.
Getting VIPS from SVN
=====================
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root% make install
By default this will install files to /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/share/vips,
/usr/local/include, /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/man.
By default this will install files to /usr/local.
If you have problems, read on.
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Building VIPS on OS X
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I used macports to install all the dependencies. Fink also works.
There are packages in macports.
http://www.macports.org
You need to tell configure to use the msgfmt from macports. Something like:
GMSGFMT="/opt/local/bin/msgfmt" ./configure --prefix=/Users/john/vips
Dependencies
============
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controlling these libs. By default, if suitable versions are found, VIPS will
build support for them automatically.
VIPS looks for stuff in /usr. If you have installed you own versions of these
libraries to /usr/local, vips will not see them. Use switches to VIPS
VIPS looks for stuff in /usr. If you have installed your own versions of
these libraries to /usr/local, vips will not see them. Use switches to VIPS
configure like:
./configure --prefix=/home/john/vips \
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libpng
if present, VIPS can load and save png files. Version 1.2+ preferred.
libMagick
libMagick, or optionally GraphicsMagick
if available, VIPS adds support for loading all libMagick supported
image file types (about 80 different formats). No saving though.

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- should check for gettext in configure? see
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1836080&group_id=100050&atid=626186
- docs include figures twice! yuk
WONTFIX
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