Re: GM in one binary

On Wed, 13 Jun 2018, Artsimovich, Wladislav wrote:

>> the default "delegates" configuration is essentially empty
> I guess I noticed that already. I compiled GM with MinGW64, without setting ENV Paths and executing
> errored out with "Unable to access configuration file (delegates.mgk)."

An actual error (maybe only a warning?) is not good.

Given what you appear to be doing (and now that I know you are using 
MinGW64 with configure), I suggest you add --disable-installed to your 
configure options:

   --disable-installed     disable building an installed GraphicsMagick

This option removes hard-coded search paths for files and builds 
relative paths instead.

Set MAGICK_DEBUG=configure in the environment if you need to debug 
initialization issues.  This should cause logging of what GM is doing 
while it is initializing.

>> I don't think that there is a compile option which keeps the software
>> from looking for the external ".mgk" files. The external ".mgk" files
>> are loaded via a function called GetConfigureBlob() in magick/blob.c
>> so it is easily modified if need be.
> Easily is a relative term ;D
> Delving into C code is really intimidating for a C virgin, especially with all the #if defineds. So basically:
> Step1: Figure out how to prevent GetConfigureBlob() from searching
> Step2: Figure out how the .mgk files work and populate them to work when statically linked
> Step3: Link dependencies and GM into one binary
> And it should work, correct?

Hopefully it is not too hard. :-)

If you need minor improvements we can get them into the next release.

Bob

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