Re:[GM-help] Re: Re: Cant register ImageMagickObject on WIndows 98

[Bob F. <bfr...@si...>]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Marcelo Cid wrote:

> I executed Dependency Walker and
> opened imagemagickobject.dll with it
> on Windows 98. It list COMSVCS.DLL as
> required module, but this DLL is not
> found on Windows 98. This is a Windows
> 2000/XP DLL only. Another error it
> reports is that the function
> InterlockedCompareExchange was not
> found on KERNEL32.DLL on Windows 98. I
> never program in C++, but this library
> really depends on COMSVCS.DLL? Some
> change on the build files can resolve
> this?

If you are able to compile GM from source code, I see that removing 
the USE_SPINLOCKS preprocessor define will disable use of 
InterlockedCompareExchange.  GraphicsMagick 1.0.6 does not use this 
API.  Use of ATL is what requires COMSVCS.DLL.  You would need to find 
it somewhere.  Recent Microsoft licenses require that Microsoft DLLs 
be downloaded from Microsoft rather than distributed with packages. 
If you discover the download URL, please let us know what it is so it 
can be added to our documentation.

I was not aware that (by default) GraphicsMagick is using an API which 
is not available under Windows '98.  Oops!

Bob
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