# My RMagick sucks under windowsXP

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 5, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-rmagick-sucks-under-windowsxp/105970 "2007-06-05T03:11:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fredric](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fredric](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Fredric)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-rmagick-sucks-under-windowsxp/105970/1 "2007-06-05T03:11:14Z")

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Hi,I plan to use rmagick for my rails app,however it can not work  
normally under windowsXP platform:  
I have installed ruby1.8.5,and then rmagick-1.14.1 and  
ImageMagick-6.3.0-7-Q8-windows-dll,which can be got from the url:  
[http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/15132/RMagick-1.14.1\_IM-6.3.0-7-Q8.zip](http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/15132/RMagick-1.14.1_IM-6.3.0-7-Q8.zip)  
after my installation,and when i run a rmagick test under  
C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rmagick-1.13.0-win32\doc\ex  
I use the following instruction:  
ruby texturefill.rb  
and I have got the following errors:

C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rmagick-1.13.0-win32\doc\ex\>ruby  
texturefill.rb texturefill.rb:7:in `initialize': undefined method `cur\_image’ for #\<Magick::Ima  
ge:0x2e7a3cc\> (NoMethodError)  
from texturefill.rb:7:in `new’  
from texturefill.rb:7  
texturefill.rb:7: [BUG] Segmentation fault  
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25) [i386-mswin32]

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual  
way.  
Please contact the application’s support team for more information.

However,If I use ruby1.8.4 and rmagick-1.13.0 which can be got from  
[http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/12421/rmagick-1.13.0-IM-6.2.9-0-win32.zip](http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/12421/rmagick-1.13.0-IM-6.2.9-0-win32.zip)  
All works well.

It seems that the latest rmagick package release can not work well with  
ruby1.8.5 under windows platform.Can anyone here help me with how to  
resolve this? Tks

Fredric

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**Author:** ![Fredric](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fredric](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Fredric)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 3:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-rmagick-sucks-under-windowsxp/105970/2 "2007-06-05T03:48:51Z")

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If I uninstalled my ruby1.8.5(version: ruby185-22Final) and reinstalled  
ruby1.8.5-24, everything is ok.  
A strange problem