ImageMagick and RMagick Installation Problems

Question

I've been trying to install ImageMagick using the Mac OS X installer from Ruby Forge and the RMagick code doesnt want to compile, it outputs:

Can't install RMagick 2.10.0. Can't find the ImageMagick library or one of the dependent libraries. Check the mkmf.log file for more detailed information.

and

have_library: checking for InitializeMagick() in -lMagickCore... -------------------- no

I've tried running the installer again but to no avail. Thank you for any help!

Answer 1

I've has no problems installing ImageMagick when using MacPorts. The procedure is typically:

sudo port install ImageMagick
sudo gem install rmagick -- --disable-htmldoc

The directive to disable documentation can speed up the installation and can avoid problems with missing fonts when trying to render example images.

MacPorts is located at http://www.macports.org/