From 4a5c86da61de8a8cb2be3a73d057cc1eedc96c5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dirk Lemstra <dirk@lemstra.org>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 18:45:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed build error.

---
 MagickCore/compare.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/MagickCore/compare.c b/MagickCore/compare.c
index 4cfbea7429..580be66a4c 100644
--- a/MagickCore/compare.c
+++ b/MagickCore/compare.c
@@ -388,6 +388,7 @@ static MagickBooleanType GetAbsoluteDistortion(const Image *image,
   /*
     Compute the absolute difference in pixels between two images.
   */
+  area=0;
   status=MagickTrue;
   SetImageDistortionBounds(image,reconstruct_image,&columns,&rows);
   image_view=AcquireVirtualCacheView(image,exception);