Magick.NET

Building Magick.NET

This document describes the requirements and instructions to build Magick.NET on your own machine.

Requirements

• Visual Studio 2019 (community)
• Powershell (>= 3.0)
• Git for Windows (>= 2.7.2)
• Windows SDK (>= 10.0.10586)

Download the code

The first step is to either clone this repository with git or download the latest release and unzip the file.

Install Magick.Native

Magick.NET uses the Magick.Native library and that needs to be installed first. To install this the following steps need to be done:

• Log into your GitHub account and go to the Settings.
• Now click on Generate new token on the top right.
• Write the name of the token under Note and then select read:packages option, finally click Generate token.
• Copy and store the token safely as it won’t be shown again!
• Open a command prompt and navigate to the src\Magick.Native folder.
• Type in install.cmd there will be two prompts, one for the username and other for the previously obtained read token.

Building the project

After installing the Magick.Native library the .sln file of this project can be used to build the Magick.NET library. Inside VisualStudio select the desired version (Q8, Q16, Q16-HDRI) and build the solution.

Submitting a pull request

Before opening a pull request the unit tests of the project should be run. The tests will only run in the Test* or Debug* configuration. If new functionality was added or if a bug was fixed with this pull request make sure that a new unit test is added to avoid a regression. Also make sure that there are no compiler warnings anymore because the GitHub actions build will treat warnings as errors.

Debugging Magick.Native

This project also includes some files that make it easy to debug the Magick.Native library. For this to be possible the Magick.Native library needs to be cloned out at the same level as the Magick.NET library. If Magick.NET is cloned in C:\Projects\Magick.NET the library needs to be cloned into C:\Projects\Magick.Native. Before executing one of the build files inside this project ImageMagick needs to be cloned in the Magick.Native project. This can be done with the file Magick.Native\src\ImageMagick\checkout.cmd. After the library is cloned one of the scripts inside src/Magick.Native/build can be used to do create a debug build that can be used to debug the native code through this project.

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