# ImageScience on DreamHost or other shared hosting?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/imagescience-on-dreamhost-or-other-shared-hosting/145422>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [August 9, 2008, 12:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/imagescience-on-dreamhost-or-other-shared-hosting/145422 "2008-08-09T00:53:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![roundabout](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@roundabout](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/roundabout)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 12:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/imagescience-on-dreamhost-or-other-shared-hosting/145422/1 "2008-08-09T00:53:29Z")

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Anyone gotten ImageScience to work on DreamHost or shared hosting? I  
think I’m having a problem because I cannot install FreeImage and  
image\_science is going bellyup when it tries to find FreeImage.h.

Here’s the error I get from Passenger:

error executing "gcc -shared -fPIC -Wall -g -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -  
fPIC -I /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/x86\_64-linux -I /usr/include -L/usr/lib -o  
“/home/victorcosby/.ruby\_inline/Inline\_ImageScience\_aa58.so” “/home/  
victorcosby/.ruby\_inline/Inline\_ImageScience\_aa58.c” -lfreeimage -  
lstdc++ ": 256 Renamed /home/victorcosby/.ruby\_inline/  
Inline\_ImageScience\_aa58.c to /home/victorcosby/.ruby\_inline/  
Inline\_ImageScience\_aa58.c.bad (CompilationError)

Thanks,  
Victor