Install imagick on OS X

I have now installed imagick on 3 machines running Apple OS X Lion and have put these instructions together to help others. There isn’t a great deal of information out there, well not a lot that seems to work or is complete. So here goes.

The 3 machines I used are an iMac 27″, a MBP and a Mac Mini all running OS X Lion with MAMP 2.0.5 and Xcode 4.2 installed

You are going to need the following software.

1. Macports dmg http://www.macports.org/install.php
2. Latest version of PHP (At this time it is php5.3.10) http://www.php.net
3. Apple Xcode v4 or above

If you have any problems please drop me a comment and I will do what I can to help out.

Now, on with the process. This is not a quick one so make sure you have time to do it and that your MBP (if using one) is mains powered.

1. Install Macports, that you have downloaded by running the dmg and installing via the pkg.

2. Open terminal and run

sudo port install ImageMagick

3. Once this is complete run the following,

vi /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/envvars

4. Comment out the following lines:

• # DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH = “/Applications/MAMP/Library/lib: $DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH”
• # Export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

5. Add this at the end

export PATH="$PATH :/opt/local/bin"

6. Now create the directy to add the latest php version to.

mkdir /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/include

7. And change the permissions

sudo chmod -R 775 /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/include/

8. Download the php source code of the latest stable version of PHP 5 from php.net if you haven’t already.

9. Navigate to the include folder you have just created

cd /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/include/

10. Navigate in to the include folder

11. Un tar the php file

tar -xvf /path/to/php-5.3.10.tar.gz

12. Rename the file

mv php-5.3.10 php

13. And navigate in to it

cd php

14 Run the following to configure php

./configure

15. Rename the current pear configuration file

mv /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/conf/pear.conf /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/conf/pear.conf.original

16. Install imagick

sudo pecl install imagick

17. When asked for it type the imagickdirectory

/opt/local

18. Add the following to the php.5.3.6 php.ini file via MAMP template editor

extension = imagick.so

19. Navigate to the extensions folder to check if the imagick.so is there.

cd /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/

If its not there then it needs to be copied from the location where it has installed. In my experience this could be in /opt/local or /usr/lib/php/extensions. Either way copy it over to the extensions folder in MAMP

cp /location/of/imagick.so /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/.

You may also need to change the permissions on the recently copied file.

chmod 777 imagick.so

Restart MAMP. Done!

Issues:

As I mentioned I had some issues when doing this, one has been covered off the other one was related to macports not working. At step 2 I received sudo: port: command not found. To overcome this you need to add the following to ~/.bash_history

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin
export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/local/share/man
export INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:/opt/local/share/info

Now resource the .bash_profile

source .bash_profile