Hi Tony, I get exactly the same error under R.2.7.1 (see below) and the same trick as before works. I attach the link where I found this info. http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-apps@cygwin.com/msg19908.html there might be better pages Cheers Marco ------------------------------------------------------------------ R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US .UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_N AME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTI FICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.7.1 g++ -shared -L/usr/local/lib64 -o EBImage.so colors.o conversions.o display.o drawable.o EBImage.o features_haralick.o features_hull.o features_moments.o features_zernike.o filters_distmap.o filters_floodfill.o filters_magick.o filters_morph.o filters_normalize.o filters_propagate.o filters_thresh.o filters_watershed.o frameDist.o io.o objects.o tools.o -L/usr/local/lib -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 -L/usr/local/lib -lfreetype -lz -L/usr/local/lib -lMagickWand -lMagickCore -lWand /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lWand collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [EBImage.so] Error 1 -------------------------- On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Tony Chiang <tchiang@fhcrc.org> wrote: > Hi Marco, > I am copying the list so that others can see your solution (if they search > the archives in the future). Generally, versions should be the most up to > date because there is very little time and resource to maintain old packages > and such. > > Cheers, > --tony > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:55 AM, marco zucchelli <marco.bioc@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi and thanks, >> >> I think I found the solution in the mean while: >> >> seems that starting from 6.4 of lmagemagick libWand became libMagickWand >> so by making softlinks of the type ln -sf libMagickWand libWand in >> /usr/local/lib makes the package to install >> >> now the question is if this is correct or not. I found this tip by >> googling around .... >> >> If Oleg would like to comment bout this would be great! >> >> Thanks, I will update R ! >> Cheers >> >> Marco >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Tony Chiang <tchiang@ebi.ac.uk> wrote: >> >>> Hi Marco, >>> I am sure that Oleg or someone else with more technical know how can give >>> you some better suggestions than I can, but for what it is worth, can you >>> update your R to the latest released version and see if that helps with >>> installation? The package should conform with the version of R, so the >>> latest released version of R should (in principle) work with the latest >>> released version of EBImage. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> --tony >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:10 AM, marco zucchelli <marco.bioc@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear All, >>>> >>>> I am trying to install EBImage on fedora 5. >>>> I installed ImageMagick 6.4 and gtk+ 2.12 with all the dependencies from >>>> source without problem. >>>> Anyway when I install the EBImage package (either the standard or the >>>> most >>>> recent 2.3.16) >>>> I get the following error: >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------ >>>> g++ -shared -L/usr/local/lib64 -o EBImage.so colors.o conversions.o >>>> display.o drawable.o EBImage.o features_haralick.o features_hull.o >>>> features_moments.o features_zernike.o filters_distmap.o >>>> filters_floodfill.o >>>> filters_magick.o filters_morph.o filters_normalize.o filters_propagate.o >>>> filters_thresh.o filters_watershed.o frameDist.o io.o objects.o tools.o >>>> -L/usr/local/lib -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 >>>> -lm >>>> -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl >>>> -lglib-2.0 -L/usr/local/lib -lfreetype -lz -L/usr/local/lib >>>> -lMagickWand >>>> -lMagickCore -lWand >>>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lWand >>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status >>>> make: *** [EBImage.so] Error 1 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> > sessionInfo() >>>> R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08) >>>> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu >>>> >>>> locale: >>>> >>>> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE= en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=e n_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US. UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C >>>> >>>> attached base packages: >>>> [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base >>>> >>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >>>> [1] rcompgen_0.1-17 tools_2.6.2 >>>> ---------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> Does anybody encountered the same problem, either has any suggestion ? >>>> To me seem that libWand should come with ImageMagick but it is not >>>> created >>>> not even building from source >>>> >>>> >>>> Best Regards >>>> >>>> Marco Zucchelli >>>> >>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Bioconductor mailing list >>>> Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >>>> Search the archives: >>>> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor >>>> >>> >>> >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]