Over the last few hours I’ve installed ImageMagick on MacPorts (super easy), and imagick on PECL (not so much). Xentek‘s post on ImageMagick and imagick was a great help, and got me past the first brick wall I hit (passing in the ImageMagick prefix to prevent it complaining about Wand-config)… but then I couldn’t get the darned extension installed. Anyway, here’s the steps I went through, and if anyone has any suggestions for improvements I’m all ears.
Installing ImageMagick through MacPorts is simplicity itself:
sudo port install ImageMagick
Then you need to install imagick, the PHP extension which wraps ImageMagick for convenience (note the sudo, which some commentators missed in articles I read):
sudo pecl install imagick
After lots of scrolling bumpf, you will be told ” 1. Please provide the prefix of Imagemagick installation : autodetect”, followed by a prompt “1-1, ‘all’, ‘abort’, or Enter to continue:”. As suggested by Xentec, here I hit 1, then entered:
/opt/local
Where I differed from Xentec was on the final line. Bizarrely my imagick.so extension file didn’t end up where PHP was expecting so I had to find it with Spotlight and drop a full path into php.ini as follows:
[imagemagick]
extension="/opt/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/imagick.so"
Of course your imagick.so may be somewhere else, and it might just have been me that’s messed something up somewhere along the lines, so you probably should try this first instead:
[imagemagick]
extension="imagick.so"
If that doesn’t work, you’ll see a line in your PHP error log similar to this one (and you won’t be able to use the extension):
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './imagick.so' - (null) in Unknown on line 0
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