Comments on: Installing ImageMagick/RMagick on Leopard

By: John Ford

John Ford — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:20:01 +0000

@Benny, you may have to recompile PHP with the GD flag to enable it. When I compile PHP on my system it looks something like this:

./configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--with-apxs2 \
--with-curl \
--enable-fastcgi \
--enable-zip \
--with-zlib=/usr \
--enable-ftp \
--enable-sockets \
--with-openssl \
--with-ldap=/usr \
--with-kerberos=/usr \
--enable-cli \
--with-xmlrpc \
--with-xsl=/usr \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
--with-mysql-sock=/tmp/mysql.sock \
--with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config \
--with-gd \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib \
--with-png-dir=/usr/X11R6 \
--with-freetype-dir=/usr/X11R6 \
--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6 \
--enable-exif \
--with-mcrypt \
--with-pdo-mysql=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config

By: Benny

Benny — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:07:46 +0000

I have tried to install ImageMagick for 2 weeks on Mac OS Leopard without success. Everybody talked about usr/local/bin and I was not able to install it in that directory. Thanks to this script I could. I only used the last 9 lines of the script that installs ImageMagick, is that wrong? I still have a problem. I can use ImageMagick from the terminal and it works perfect. But why can’t I use it from PHP code with the exec command?

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:33:04 +0000

Thank you!! Fantastic help.

I was just trying to run the unit tests for Paperclip on my Mac and realized they relied on ImageMagick… this script saved me!

By: arctan

arctan — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:39:27 +0000

@Don French

i had the same problem on 10.5 while compiling ghostscript. my fix involved downloading libiconv and compiling that. then make clean on ghostscript (imagemagick in your case) and then make -j1

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:12:23 +0000

ImageMagick-6.4.4 release doesn’t have the configure so you just unpack and configure your environment paths correctly and your good to go. I posted about it on my site. ;) Hope that helps someone out cause it frustrated the hell out of me.

By: Don French

Don French — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:55:10 +0000

I get the following error when trying to run his script:
Undefined symbols:
“_iconv_close”, referenced from:
_opvp_to_utf8 in gdevopvp.o
“_iconv”, referenced from:
_opvp_to_utf8 in gdevopvp.o
“_iconv_open”, referenced from:
_opvp_to_utf8 in gdevopvp.o
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [bin/gs] Error 1

Any ideas what is missing?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:15:49 +0000

Hey John, thanks a lot to you and Solomon for blogging this!

Tom: I modified John’s script slightly to use the latest versions from mirrors near me (UK). ImageMagick is currently at 6.4.2-0, so try:

curl -O ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.4.2-0.tar.gz

Hope this helps!

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:00:11 +0000

I had some problems with the last couple groups of commands. I don’t know if ImageMagick 6.3.7-1 is still available on their ftp?

By: John WUlff

John WUlff — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:54:17 +0000

Thanks!

By: Brian Fury

Brian Fury — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:31:51 +0000

For people like me who do not have X11 installed on their Leopard machine, this may help:

I needed to add a
with-x=no
to the end of the
./configure [...]
line, four lines up from the end of the script, in order for ImageMagick to install.

Thanks for the script though!