ImageMagick not found

[SREERAJ P]

ImageMagick not found is being shown while starting Damselfly server in Windows. ImageMagick is already installed. If we run the command "convert --version" the exitcode is 4.

Please fix

[Mark Otway]

Hi,

If ImageMagick is in the path, Damselfly will find it. If not, there's nothing I can do.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

[SREERAJ P]

ImageMagick is in path. But in your code you are checking for exitcode 0. It is returning exit code 4

[SREERAJ P]

Code for Test.exe
namespace Test
{
class Program
{
private const string imageMagickExe = "convert";
static void Main(string[] args)
{

        var process = new Process();

        process.StartInfo.FileName = imageMagickExe;
        process.StartInfo.Arguments = "-version";
        process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = false;
        process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
        process.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
        process.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;

        var success = process.Start();

        if (success)
        {
            process.WaitForExit();

            Console.WriteLine("Success: " + process.ExitCode);
        }
        else {
            Console.WriteLine("Failure");

        }

        
    }
}

}

[Mark Otway]

According to SO, it looks like error code 4 is happening because a convert.exe command that isn't ImageMagick is being executed.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50582885/imagemagick-convert-command-returning-error-code-4-when-used-with-php

So I suspect the answer is to move the PATH entry for ImageMagick nearer to the start of the path. Either that, or copy convert.exe into the folder that Damselfly runs from.

I could add an option to explicitly specify the IM path, but

1. It's not really high on my list of priorities for Damselfly. I need to get image editing working, and face recognition up and running again.
2. It would have to be Windows-only, and I don't really want to add OS specific logic.
3. I only really support docker installations (as specified in the documentation) otherwise I'd spend my life trying to fix people's windows install issues, and I have little enough time to work on Damselfly as it is.

Sorry I can't help more.

If this is for HEIC support, I have a recently opened issue to handle that natively, rather than using ImageMagick. I'm far more likely to work on that. #479