Compiling PerlMagick, the Perl binding for ImageMagick, is a major pain in the neck, as it almost never works out of the box. Check out this blog post to discover an effortless solution to that tedious task. Say goodbye to manual tinkering and compiling headaches and hello to use Image::Magick!
Spawning subprocesses and catching their standard output and standard error channels sounds like a trivial task but it is somewhat tricky to make it also work on Windows because of the platform's numerous quirks. It is, however, feasible, as the instructions below show. Code is provided for both C and Perl. You should be able to port it to other scripting languages without major problems.
