Cannot find Magick++ header files

Since you are under Linux, I would think you can install the imagemagick package that comes with your installation. It's available on all flavors of Linux I know of.

Under Debian/Ubuntu it would be something like this:

sudo apt-get install libmagick++-dev

Otherwise, I personally would use cmake to do all the setup. It's a bit of a learning curve at first, but then it automates those things for you.

It seems to me that if your command line is:

g++ main.cpp

Then you are missing a couple of -I options. Installing the package may not require you to use the -I option (since I use cmake and don't really pay attention to those things... it just works for me.)

So to solve your problem, you probably need something like this:

g++ -I/home/simeon/ImageMagick-6.8.9-0/Magick++/lib main.cpp

Also, if you have a single .cpp file, you may want to use a -o myprog command line option.

For the compile and link steps to work as expected, you may want to use the pkgconfig definitions of Magick

# compilepkg-config --cflags /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/ImageMagick++.pc# linkpkg-config --libs /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/ImageMagick++.pc

These commands are actually what cmake would try to use to determine the compile time and link time additional flags.

ImageMagick ships with a configuration utility that should give you the correct path. For Magick++, it's simply Magick++-config (see section Usage in Magick++ docs.)

IM_CXXFLAGS=$(Magick++-config --cxxflags)IM_LDFLAGS=$(Magick++-config --ldflags)g++ $IM_CXXFLAGS $IM_LDFLAGS main.cpp

You will need to use the system's include statement (<>), and keep it simple by including the parent header.

#include <Magick++.h>

If you just need it for single file, here is the proper build command for a Magick++ module:

g++ `Magick++-config --cxxflags --cppflags` -O2 -Wall -o yourProgramName yourFile.cpp `Magick++-config --ldflags --libs`

If it does not work you may need to install libmagick++-dev first:

sudo apt-get install libmagick++-dev

And install imageMagick from Unix Source:

1. download ImageMagick-7.0.3-5.tar.gz from here
2. Install it using instructions from here