Comments on: Compiling FreeImage in 64-bit on Snow Leopard

By: Ffelagund

Ffelagund — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:37:15 +0000

I have XCode4 and Lion, and I tried modify the makefile to support Lion (using the SDK 10.7) but I had no luck. Many “no such file or directory” messages relative to system headers (algorithms, float.h, and so)
Any clue?
Thanks.

By: Aaron B. Russell

Aaron B. Russell — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:03:35 +0000

@Blake: I’ve not made the jump to Xcode 4 yet, I’m still on 3.2.5. You probably don’t want a g++-4.0 symlink pointing to a 4.2 binary though, it’s very likely there differences between the two which may cause you problems if a build does anything specific for 4.0. and figuring out the cause of those problems could be a nightmare. :)

If you re-run the Xcode installer and customise the installation, I think you might be able to install g++-4.0 if you need it, but if you managed to build with 4.2 your solution of just having g++ in the Makefile (or perhaps changing it to g++-4.2) is probably better. Hope this helps!

By: Blake

Blake — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:14:45 +0000

I found that I was getting “make[1]: g++-4.0: No such file or directory” with your makefile. I have a new MBP, with a fresh XCode 4.0.1 install. I was able to track down that the error is from a missing symbolic link being setup – but searching for more than an hour was not showing me how to get that symbolic linksetup. So, noting that “g++” resolves to “i686-apple-darwin10-g++-4.2.1″, I changed your makefiles’s two references of “g++-4.0″ to be “g++” and the two references to “gcc-4.0″ to “gcc” and the compile works.

Amy idea why I don’t have that symbolic link and how to get it?

By: rasco

rasco — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:28:23 +0000

Hi,
I have problem compiling it with OSX SDKs. I always get warning, that there exist multiple definition of symbol in SDK /10.4., 10.5., 10.6./ and FreeImage.a compiled by this tutorial.

Any ideas? Thx.

By: Aaron B. Russell

Aaron B. Russell — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:58:11 +0000

@Joshua: I’m not sure. I’m not very familiar with FreeImage, I just needed to get it working so that a Rails app I was working on could boot properly.

By: Joshua Pinter

Joshua Pinter — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:26:42 +0000

King among men, thank you.

Is there a better (read: more updated) library to use?

By: Aylwin Lo

Aylwin Lo — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:56:01 +0000

Seems to have worked for me, too. Thanks for posting this!

By: Aaron B. Russell

Aaron B. Russell — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:59:07 +0000

It certainly seems to have worked, yeah. I’ve not done much in the way of image related tasks, but all the warnings I was getting upon booting my Rails app have gone away.

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By: rono

rono — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:47:58 +0000

and does this worked at the end?