Comments on thoughts from left field: Mac OS X & Rails & ImageMagick without the kruft

For those with problems like gs not found,change t...

2008-01-11T11:50:00.000-05:00

For those with problems like gs not found,
change the pathes in
/usr/local/lib/ImageMagick-*/config/delegates.xml
for the gs delegate entries.
Take care gs will (if installed) most likely be in /usr/local/bin and that path might or might not be in your path hence the trouble.
You can also configure ImageMagick with --frozen-pathes then paths for found delegates will be absolute...

take care
paradoxix

Let me add my thank you to the rest. It worked per...

2007-12-30T20:59:00.000-05:00

Let me add my thank you to the rest. It worked perfectly. Also, thanks to Malcolm for his comment on solving the issue with the jpeg configure script.

For the record, this works on Leopard.

2007-10-10T21:08:00.000-04:00

For the record, this works on Leopard.

Thank you for this clean step by step installation...

2007-06-08T11:42:00.000-04:00

Thank you for this clean step by step installation guide.

I am on an Intel Mac OS X 10.4. All the steps went well so far. I am psyched to try it.

[me@my-machine] irb
>> require 'rmagick'
=> true

GREAT!

Hello,Great tutorial. I've used it in the past wi...

2007-03-08T07:32:00.000-05:00

Hello,

Great tutorial. I've used it in the past without problems. But I'm getting some problems now on a fresh machine...

This is from the gem install step:
RMagick: FreeTypeLibraryIsNotAvailable `(null)'.
RMagick: no decode delegate for this image format `/var/tmp/magick-ea4gs8oj'.
RMagick: Postscript delegate failed `/var/tmp/magick-ea4gs8oj'.

And later on, I see that an error that not enough tests passed.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Matt

As others have said... great tutorial.My addition:...

2007-02-12T16:30:00.000-05:00

As others have said... great tutorial.

My addition:

When running the jpeg configure script I got an error:
ltconfig: cannot guess host type; you must specify one

I was running this on an intel Mac mini by the way. The command 'uname -m' shows what you are looking for... in my case 'i386' is the host type.

I opened up the 'configure' script, and found the line where it runs ltconfig and added 'i386' to the end of the line (no quotes of course).

Thanks again,
Malcolm

Anonymous, if you get this error, "sh: line 1: gs:...

2006-11-22T18:39:00.000-05:00

Anonymous, if you get this error,
"sh: line 1: gs: command not found" it simply means that you do not have ghostscript installed on your machine or the executable location is not in your path. A simple way to get gs is by installing fink and installing the gs package.

great it works perfectsystem here is G4 Double pr...

2006-10-05T05:18:00.000-04:00

great it works perfect
system here is G4 Double proc 2x1.4 GHz with 1GB RAM, OS 10.4.8

regards Frank

Unfortunatelyhttp://www.ijg.orgdoesn't seem to exi...

2006-08-24T15:54:00.000-04:00

Unfortunately

http://www.ijg.org

doesn't seem to exist now

This is a great tutorial ... saved me a lot of has...

2006-08-19T15:16:00.000-04:00

This is a great tutorial ... saved me a lot of hassle and worked like a treat!

The only teeny weeny suggestion I'd make is adding in the command cd .. at the end of each bit you install because if you follow your instructions literally you get end up with a 'unique' directory structure!

Something's still missing. I tried going through t...

2006-06-19T21:49:00.000-04:00

Something's still missing. I tried going through this (in the console):

http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/web2/web2.html

and when I got to this statement:

gc.annotate(background, 0, 0, 70, HEIGHT, "RMAGICK")

I get errors:

sh: line 1: gs: command not found
sh: line 1: gs: command not found
RMagick: no decode delegate for this image format `/var/tmp/magick-Cg1JykLQ'.
RMagick: Postscript delegate failed `/var/tmp/magick-Cg1JykLQ'.
sh: line 1: gs: command not found
sh: line 1: gs: command not found
RMagick: no decode delegate for this image format `/var/tmp/magick-zCiPCyGp'.
RMagick: Postscript delegate failed `/var/tmp/magick-zCiPCyGp'.
=> (no primitives defined)

Huh?!?

I also get errors when trying to do a gem update.

Anyone?

Thanks a ton. This worked great on the intel mac....

2006-05-28T13:33:00.000-04:00

Thanks a ton. This worked great on the intel mac. I had no problems with the libpng-1.2.10. I have XCode 2.3 that just shipped - maybe that fixes the problem some have reported.

the current version of libpng is 2.1.10. it no lo...

2006-05-13T07:17:00.000-04:00

the current version of libpng is 2.1.10. it no longer ships with the configure option. and didn't see a valid makefile in the script dir which worked with osx intel. got the 2.1.8 from sourceforge

THANK YOU good man!I jumped onto the intel bandwag...

2006-05-05T04:26:00.000-04:00

THANK YOU good man!

I jumped onto the intel bandwagon without really thinking it over (the filthy alure of PC game whores). And then: Wheres imagemagick for intel macs???!? Since I am not into the "sudo" midst of things, I was done for.

Thanks!!!!

I got some issue with imagemagick and libpng 1.2....

2006-04-24T06:05:00.000-04:00

I got some issue with imagemagick and libpng 1.2.10, back to 1.2.8 everything was fine...
thanks!

Hey Adam,I totally agree that Darwin Ports and Fin...

2006-04-22T08:49:00.000-04:00

Hey Adam,

I totally agree that Darwin Ports and Fink are excellent ways to get all this running. For many people that is a much better route to take.

I however like just having the software I need without adding an entirely new management framework and a boat load of other bloat. The ImageMagick that comes with Darwin Ports/Fink is compiled with pretty much every option turned on. I don't really need 80% of the features that IM offers, so it just seemed easier to roll my own.

Your curl statement for ImageMagick does not work ...

2006-04-22T02:38:00.000-04:00

Your curl statement for ImageMagick does not work they are on 6.2.7-0. Other than that great tutorial. It seems all the libraries are being updated right after you change their listings. :)

ImageMagick is up to 6.4.7-0. Trying the install n...

2006-04-21T23:41:00.000-04:00

ImageMagick is up to 6.4.7-0. Trying the install now, hopefully all will be ok

Don't get me wrong, I love the tutorials, and I am...

2006-04-21T22:56:00.000-04:00

Don't get me wrong, I love the tutorials, and I am glad this is all being well documented. But between Rails and ImageMagick, DarwinPorts is the way to go. I have installed everything through it, and it is just works so well.

libpng is no longer available on the link posted. ...

2006-04-21T22:01:00.000-04:00

libpng is no longer available on the link posted. Get it from one of the sourceforge downloads linked from the official home page http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html

Thanks Dave, I've updated the post to correct the ...

2006-04-21T20:00:00.000-04:00

Thanks Dave, I've updated the post to correct the missing period, and changed tiff to 3.8.2.

Just some notes:In the steps for JPEG there's a pe...

2006-04-20T12:53:00.000-04:00

Just some notes:

In the steps for JPEG there's a period missing, it should be:

./configure --enable-shared --prefix=/usr/local

and when I did this the version of tiff was up to 3.8.2. Replace all of the 3.8.1 in the tiff instructions with 3.8.2 you should be golden.

Finally, libpng wasn't available from simplesystems the day I did it. I picked up the latest from

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html

Many thanks for such a great tutorial. I've follow...

2006-04-14T21:53:00.000-04:00

Many thanks for such a great tutorial. I've followed it successfully several times. Now, where did I leave my beverage...

This works great! Thank you.

2006-04-06T20:07:00.000-04:00

This works great! Thank you.