Re: regarding imread in Octave-3.2.0_i686-pc-mingw32_gcc-4.3.0

[Benjamin Lindner]

Suren Singh Gahlawat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I previously used to work with matlab. Just shifted to octave. I work in the 
> domain of image processing. I couldn't figure out about how to read the image. 
> It is giving the following error
>
> > i = imread('sunset.jpg');
> error: imread: invalid image file: Magick++ exception: Magick: Unable to access 
> configuration file (magic.mgk) reported
> by 
> d:/files/admin/octaveforge_svn/trunk/octave-forge/admin/Windows/mingw32/graphicsmagick/GraphicsMagick-1.3.3/magick/bl
> ob.c:1824 (GetConfigureBlob)
> error: called from:
> error:   C:\Octave\3.2.0_gcc-4.3.0\share\octave\3.2.0\m\image\imread.m at line 
> 74, column 7
> octave-3.2.0.exe:3:C:\Octave
>
> I manually tried to put magic.mgk at certain places but doesnt work still. I even downloaded the image module build 1.0.10 but was not able to do using that too. 
>
> Please respond.

This is a known problem which will be fixed in the next octave/mingw32 
release.

benjamin