KaRo,
I am not interested in the command line tool.
As I mentioned, I work in C and was intending to analyze a couple of the algorithms in gmic, and assess things as they are.
On the mac, the installation via both homebrew and macports failed. I don’t know what you mean that “they are already compiled and don’t take long” - for example, the heavy ones, llvm and clang, and all of the 341 are downloaded and compiled when calling the macports install gmic command, and this takes hours. - not to mention that I would not want these installed on our computers, and that they require individual patching on the latest Mac OS with new hardware. It has been clearly communicated that using the Mac is not supported, and I have moved on.
On linux, there are dependency and/or linking problems for both C++ and C. The information in the documentation about both installing and using the library even for linux is incorrect and I was not able to compile the example code.