Re: OT need ImageMagick utility

You may be able to compile on another FreeBSD box and upload to your "cgi" directory and http://php.net/exec it -- WARNING richard@zend.com address is an endangered species -- Use ceo@l-i-e.com Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Daniel Baldoni <dbaldoni@iinet.net.au> Newsgroups: php.general To: PHP users <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 11:38 AM Subject: OT need ImageMagick utility > G'day folks, > > After telling my client that they'd quite happily install anything on their > virtual host that was needed, the chosen hosting company has now renegged and > refuses to install ImageMagick. To make matters worse, they haven't given us > shell access so we can't compile up our own. And, as we don't have access to > various directories (e.g. /usr/local/lib), we can't install a pre-built > dynamically-linked version. > > What we really need is a statically linked copy of ImageMagick's convert > program. If anybody can point me at such a beast, I'd much appreciate it. > If not, do you know of another utility (again, we need a prebuilt statically > linked binary) which can resize an arbitrary image into a thumbnail? > > Either way, the solution needs to be compiled for FreeBSD 4.3 on an Intel > platform. > > Thanks for any help. > > Ciao. > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------+------------------ --- > Daniel Baldoni BAppSc, PGradDipCompSci | Technical Director > require 'std/disclaimer.pl' | LcdS Pty. Ltd. > -------------------------------------------------------+ 856B Canning Hwy > Phone/FAX: +61-8-9364-8171 | Applecross > Mobile: 041-888-9794 | WA 6153 > URL: http://www.lcds.com.au/ | > Australia > -------------------------------------------------------+------------------ --- > "Any time there's something so ridiculous that no rational systems programmer > would even consider trying it, they send for me."; paraphrased from "King Of > The Murgos" by David Eddings. (I'm not good, just crazy)