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Could not find convert
I install convert ,it prompt node-waf node found but the node-waf package has been replaced by node-gyp o.o
Hi @UglyMelon007 this seems a rather windows-related bug. I am not very skilled in those since I am using Linux.
It seems some people managed to get gifify working on windows still like @aledelgo, maybe he can help you?
I'm having the same problem on OSX:

But I already installed that using the instructions here: https://github.com/vvo/gifify#requirements
convert, the famous ImageMagick ($ brew install imagemagick --with-fontconfig)
I think I figured out the problem. I had previously installed an older version of imagemagick and had to re-link it:
brew link --overwrite imagemagick
Thanks!
TL;DR: Create a Windows batch file in the path used by gifify
, e.g.
"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-7.0.5-Q16\magick.exe" %*
I ran into the problem on Windows 10. There is already a system utility named convert
that is used for file system conversion.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>which convert
C:\WINDOWS\system32\convert.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32>convert /?
Converts a FAT volume to NTFS.
CONVERT volume /FS:NTFS [/V] [/CvtArea:filename] [/NoSecurity] [/X]
...
Additionally, I am using ImageMagick-7.0.5-Q16. I found a couple of articles indicating the functionality of convert has been replaced by magick
in version 7.
- http://stackoverflow.com/a/38319795/6146580
- https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=29582
I tried a link file with little success and ended up using a batch file (convert.bat
).
Like gkhays pointed out, there is an exe in System32 which windows will pick up first. To fix this in powershell you can run this: $env:Path = "C:\Users\jared\path-to-convert\;$env:Path"
Now the imagemagick convert exe gets found.