ImageMagick and RMagick on Mac OSX

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Dear Ruby people,

I want on my Mac Mini (Mac OSX 10.4.8, intel processor) ImageMagick and RMagick. I've tried everything and nothing works. Fink, DarwinPorts, installing from the source... I think I've got the wrong X11, but I've installed it with a update from 2006.

I'm very very very desperate ( I love to code, but I hate systems :wink: ).

Please help me

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You should try: http://locomotive.raaum.org/

Locomotive is RoR software for MacOSX. It has a bundle which lets you can add RMagick.

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I tend to use Fink for most things, but for RMagick I found it easier to just install everything from source. It's a finicky beast.

I followed the basic steps from here:

  Dan Benjamin

except for the ImageMagick configuration, which I took from here:

  http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-osx.html

Also, I installed everything into /usr/local to keep it as clean and separated as possible.

If you're still having problems, perhaps you could the specific error message you're getting?

Chris

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Take a look here:

http://blog.labratz.net/articles/2006/10/10/really-truly-getting-imagemagick-rmagick-working-on-osx-from-source-without-using-macports-darwinports-or-fink

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I want on my Mac Mini (Mac OSX 10.4.8, intel processor) ImageMagick and RMagick. I've tried everything and nothing works. Fink, DarwinPorts, installing from the source... I think I've got the wrong X11, but I've installed it with a update from 2006.

The X11 version may or may not be an issue. I suspect it's fine, however, as long as you have include files in /usr/X11R6/include/X11.

I'm very very very desperate ( I love to code, but I hate systems :wink: Please help me

I hate administration crap as well, which is why I use Fink:

fink install imagemagick10-dev gem install rmagick

That's all I needed to do. It is very important, however, to install imagemagick10-dev and not imagemagick-dev.

--Greg