Addressing common installation problems with RMagick - CORE_RL_magick.dll & RMagick.so February 26, 2007
Posted by Bryan in : Coding , 5 commentsIt seems that two potential areas for problems when installing RMagick are the CORE_RL_magick.dll (or other .dll) “not found” error and errors mentioning RMagick.so.
Having encountered the “CORE_DL_magick.dll not found” error while working on Datechest.com I know that there’s not a lot of information out there about how to fix it. A question on the RMagick rubyforge forums regarding it didn’t even result in an answer. However, the solution is simple and obvious (not to say that it didn’t take me about an hour to realize). Just reboot your development machine. That worked for me and I’ll bet it will work for you.
Apparently, according to this thread, that can work for errors with RMagick.so as well. I’d imagine if you’re installing RMagick on a Windows development machine rebooting after installing would solve or prevent a lot of problems.
