Re: Interpreting configure script's results

[Po Lu]

John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org> writes:

>     Does Emacs use imagemagick?  no
>     Does Emacs use native APIs for images?  no
>
> I expected the first 'no' and assumed that I should resolve the second.
> But for the life of me I cannot figure out what -dev package is missing.
> I have skimmed the configure script and have concluded that these
> native APIs are available only on ns, w32 and haiku.  Does this mean
> that image functionality is not supported on these three platforms? Do
> I need to add --with-imagemagick?

Native image APIs don't provide anything over the options that already
exist.  It only means Emacs will use the platform APIs to load images,
instead of using other image libraries such as libpng and ImageMagick.

Since X has no useful "native image API", that option is not available
there.