PreBuilt Binary of ImageMagick

[xyle_one]

I have run into a small problem. I am hosting a site on a friends server, but my site requires imageMagicks convert for the portfolio section of the site. Well, the admin section anyways. I wanted clean images resized with convert, and not PHPs GD functions. I was never happy with the results from that. Anyways, it appears that ImageMagick was not installed. He is renting a machine from 1and1 and they use the Plesk control panel. I can't install anything on it and my friend isn't replying today for some reason. Google searching has led me to the idea of a pre built, ready to run binary that I can point my scripts to. I can't find any more information than that though.

I've found for totally instant gratification, that I can download a prebuilt binary of ImageMagick and just upload it to my webspace with the proper permissions and just point my script to that and it works fine. Or you can send in a ticket and they can do what they need to do
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Is it possible to do this? Can I just drop a binary in the users root directory and use that? That would be a miracle
The machine is running Fedora, though I don't know what version...

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rpm -ql ImageMagick | more

returns "package ImageMagick is not installed"
locate ImageMagick returned /usr/share/man/fr/man1/ImageMagick.1.gz and some cache files...


If I must, I will switch to PHPs built in image manipulation tools. Perhaps I am just using them wrong and can get the same quality that convert achieves.

Thanks in advance.

[Void Main]

That would be very strange to have a man page and not have the application. That's an odd location for the man page though, mine is in /usr/share/man/man1. I guess that's the French version.

If it is not installed you are probably not going to be able to just upload the convert binary unless you also have all the shared libraries installed that convert was linked against. Here's all the libraries my copy of convert is linked to:

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$ ldd /usr/bin/convert
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x0054b000)
        libMagick.so.6 => /usr/lib/libMagick.so.6 (0x00d5d000)
        libtiff.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3 (0x00111000)
        libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x00ab1000)
        libgs.so.7 => /usr/lib/libgs.so.7 (0x00f78000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00a21000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x0045d000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x005de000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x001f5000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x00166000)
        libbz2.so.1 => /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1 (0x00a4a000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x001bb000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x001df000)
        libltdl.so.3 => /usr/lib/libltdl.so.3 (0x002c9000)
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00770000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00b48000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x001f1000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x002d0000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x005f8000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x003fa000)
        libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x00404000)
        libcupsimage.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcupsimage.so.2 (0x00c46000)
        libcups.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcups.so.2 (0x00860000)
        libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x00428000)
        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x0048c000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00470000)
        libssl.so.5 => /lib/libssl.so.5 (0x0054c000)
        libcrypto.so.5 => /lib/libcrypto.so.5 (0x0087f000)
        libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x007d8000)
        libkrb5.so.3 => /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3 (0x006de000)
        libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/libcom_err.so.2 (0x0042c000)
        libk5crypto.so.3 => /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x00b18000)
        libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x0042f000)
        libkrb5support.so.0 => /usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.0 (0x00442000)

If the convert binary cannot find all those libraries with those exact names it will not work. They don't actually have to reside in the directories shown above so you could upload the libraries to a directory under your home as well and add that directory to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable.

However, an easier way is to compile ImageMagick on another machine but compile it static rather than dynamic. When you statically link it it will suck those libraries right into the convert binary so there are no dependencies. The convert program will be significantly larger but you could then upload it and run it without all those other libraries. Maybe you can find one out on the net that is already compiled and statically linked.

[xyle_one]

Thanks Void Main. I'll look into that.