Re^2: Merge multiple BMP images into ICO files

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Hi

Thanks for the suggestion. Imager looked quite promising, but it seems to do its .ico processing using a XS backend .dll that I won't be able to use on other OSs.

Unfortunately I think I need a pure-Perl solution.

- j

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Re^3: Merge multiple BMP images into ICO files by 5mi11er (Deacon) on Mar 22, 2007 at 14:20 UTC
I think you're incorrect about needing a .dll file. I've used imager on a few linux boxes, and though I've never needed to do much with .ico files, I've been more than pleased with having chosen that package to work with. -Scott	[reply]
Re^4: Merge multiple BMP images into ICO files by jimbojones (Friar) on Mar 22, 2007 at 14:53 UTC
Hi I based that comment on seeing the following pulled down from ActiveState PPM: `Installing C:\Progra~1\Perl\Perl586_811\site\lib\auto\Imager\File\ICO\ +ICO.dll` [download] So at least for the `.ico` support, it seems to need a .dll. Thanks, J	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Merge multiple BMP images into ICO files by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 22, 2007 at 14:58 UTC
Large parts of Imager are written in XS, which is mostly C with some Perl macros. On Win32, XS gets compiled into `.dll` files. On other platforms, it gets compiled into whatever format dynamically loadable libraries have. You can find out the filename extension for a platform by inspecting the output of `perl -V:so` on that platform: Win32: `Q:\>perl -V:so so='dll';` [download] Solaris: `$ perl -V:so so='so';` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: Merge multiple BMP images into ICO files by jimbojones (Friar) on Mar 22, 2007 at 15:08 UTC
Re^5: Merge multiple BMP images into ICO files by tonyc (Pilgrim) on Mar 29, 2007 at 01:03 UTC
The ICO.dll (or ICO.so, or ICO.bundle) is created during the build process. All of the code Imager requires to support ICO is part of Imager (most of the format support is in ICO/msicon.c). The structure of images inside an ICO file is similar enough to BMP that you could probably write a simple script (or module) to do the conversion. One issue is that .ico doesn't allow compressed images, but you could test for that, since you need to parse the bmp header for the image size anyway.	[reply]
Re^6: Merge multiple BMP images into ICO files by jimbojones (Friar) on Mar 30, 2007 at 00:14 UTC
Re^4: Merge multiple BMP images into ICO files by Anonymous Monk on Mar 22, 2007 at 14:46 UTC
XS means .dll http://search.cpan.org/src/TONYC/Imager-0.55/Imager.xs	[reply]
Re^5: Merge multiple BMP images into ICO files by 5mi11er (Deacon) on Mar 22, 2007 at 16:17 UTC
No, XS means C code; see Corion's reply below.	[reply]

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