magick-rust/README.md

magick-rust

A "safe" Rust interface to the ImageMagick system, in particular, the MagickWand library. The safe is in scarequotes because honestly nearly everything is little more than calls into a C library with unsafe wrapped around it.

TODO

1. Use rust-bindgen to generate Rust bindings.
2. Add a license and copyright headers
3. Develop Rustic wrappers to the MagickWand library.
   • Old Rust bindings: https://github.com/influenza/wand-of-rust
   • Wand API: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/magick-wand.php
4. Write unit tests
5. Test it on lots of images in batches to stress test it; should not crash

Building the Bindings

To build the ImageMagick bindings, we use rust-bindgen, which reads the C header files and produces a suitable wrapper in Rust.

This example is using the Homebrew installed version of ImageMagick, and the LLVM compiler suite provided in the Command Line Tools from Apple. The only real difference for Mac OS X is the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH that is needed to work around issue #89 in rust-bindgen. Otherwise, the same basic steps should work on any Rust-supported system.

$ git clone https://github.com/crabtw/rust-bindgen.git
$ cd rust-bindgen
$ cargo build
$ echo '#include <wand/MagickWand.h>' > ~/gen.h
$ DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/lib \
    ./target/debug/bindgen \
    `MagickWand-config --cflags` \
    -builtins \
    -o ~/bindings.rs \
    `MagickWand-config --ldflags` \
    ~/gen.h

Then copy the ~/bindings.rs file into the src directory of this project, and rebuild everything. Hopefully it still works.