Install RMagick on Mac OS X Leopard from Source

Posted by Ben Reubenstein Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:50:00 GMT

Here are the commands I used to compile the required libraries and programs for RMagick to work on Mac OS X 10.5. It is largely the same as this article with slight adjustments. After completing the process I dumped my history.

Before you can execute these commands, you MUST HAVE

Begin by creating a folder to hold the src.

cd ~
mkdir src
cd src

wget

I like wget, which I use in the commands below. To start compile that or replace the wget command with curl -O.

curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-latest.tar.gz
tar -zxvf wget-latest.tar.gz 
cd wget-1.11/
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..

FreeType

wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
tar zxvf freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz 
cd freetype-2.3.5
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..

PNG Library

wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/libpng-1.2.25.tar.gz
tar -zxvf libpng-1.2.25.tar.gz 
cd libpng-1.2.25
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..

JPEG Library

wget ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
tar -zxvf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz 
cd jpeg-6b/
ln -s `which glibtool` ./libtool
export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..

TIFF Library

wget ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/libtiff/tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz 
cd tiff-3.8.2
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make 
sudo make install
cd ..

GhostScript Fonts

wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gs-fonts/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz
tar -zxvf ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz 
sudo mkdir /usr/local/share/ghostscript
sudo mv fonts/ /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/

ImageMagick

wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz
tar zxvf ImageMagick.tar.gz 
cd ImageMagick-6.3.9/
export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include
export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
./configure --prefix=/usr/local  --disable-static --with-modules --without-perl  --without-magick-plus-plus --with-quantum-depth=8  --with-gs-font-dir=/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts
make
sudo make install
cd ..

RMagick

sudo gem install rmagick

MiniMagick

sudo gem install mini_magick

Clean Up

cd ~
rm -Rfv ./src

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  1. James said about 12 hours later:

    Ben, I have no idea what any of that means. Guess that's why you're way smarter than I am

  2. Justin said about 1 month later:

    Thanks nice tutorial. Also ImageMagick is now -v 6.4.0 might want to change " cd ImageMagick-6.3.9/ " could confuse some slow ones. :)

  3. Robert said about 1 month later:

    Works great.

    Thanks for the detailed steps.

  4. Michael D. Ivey said about 1 month later:

    Thanks Ben. I'm a late-adopter on Leopard, and forgot to add this to my todo list. You saved me an hour or so of searching and fiddling with ./config options tonight, when I actually needed it.

    I reeeaaally wish someone would make a ports-like system that used the built-in libraries.

  5. murphy said about 1 month later:

    Thank you, it works!

  6. ling said about 1 month later:

    Thanks for the tutorial. I think this worked. Is there any way to check.

    Also, if I wanted to reinstall all of this, how do I do a roll back and start the procedure all over?

  7. kmcital said 5 months later:

    Thanks! After two failed attempts, I found your instructions and it works!

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