Building & Install RMagick on OS X, lessons learned

hbeaver — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:01:55 +0000

There are several ways out there to install RMagick: via ports, package installer, etc. My advice: before you even start working on these.

1. Install ALL updates from Apple for your OSX.

2. Update XCode to the latest downloadable version.

Doing the above will save you a whole weekend and avoid weird errors like this:
.libs/libMagick.dylib must have a ‘:’ between its file names
H

Compiling RMagick on Westhost => TIPS

hbeaver — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:23:42 +0000

1. Create a working directory, I made ~/app-src.

2. cd to this dir.

3. wget ‘http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/25349/RMagick-1.15.10.tar.gz’ or latest.

4. create a symlink from the current version of libMagick.so. to no version extension :

ln -s /usr/local/ImageMagick-6.3.3/lib/libMagick.so.10.0.7 /usr/local/ImageMagick-6.3.3/lib/libMagick.so

5. export the base ImageMagick directory above as LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the current shell you are going to compile in: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/ImageMagick-6.3.3/
6. ./configure –disable-htmldoc (The HTML doc creation kept failing so I needed to do the above option.) NOTE: this is a double dash “- – ” in front of disable-htmldoc.
7. make

8. make install

9. irb; require ‘RMagick’. so far so good.

Hank Beaver » RMagick

Building & Install RMagick on OS X, lessons learned

Compiling RMagick on Westhost => TIPS