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Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)

Solomon White — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:07:00 +0000

I’ve recently upgraded to OS X 10.5 (Leopard), and all-in-all, I’m pleased with the experience. My biggest issue has been the default stacks behavior—the icon changes to the last thing added to the stack, making visual identification unnecessarily cumbersome. I worked around this annoyance (as outlined here) by changing the sort to name rather than date added, and adding a dummy folder named “_1” that will sort to the top. For extra bonus points, I customized the icon of the dummy folder. For some yet unknown reason, the most recently downloaded item still peeks through from time to time, but it’s much better than before.

Maybe it’s my Windows history showing through, but I went with the “clean-sweep” erase and install method. For a non-developer, I’d probably recommend the upgrade (and in fact I used that method for my Father-in-law’s MacBook), but I had lots of custom bits scattered about my machine, and didn’t want to be chasing any incompatibility gremlins.

So now, to get my development environment set up on the new machine… Leopard includes a fairly complete Rails stack out of the box, with a non-broken Ruby, readline support, and most of the commonly used gems. Read more here.

MySQL was not included, but the latest installer (mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-i686.dmg) for 10.4 from dev.mysql.com downloads worked (mostly) fine. The Server and the StartupItem install and operate correctly. The PrefPane installs, but does not appear to actually do … anything. I’ll have to work on that, but I can live without it for now. After a bit of manual hacking on my database dump file from Tiger (where I was running a 5.1.x beta of MySQL), all my databases are back in place.

One last piece that I needed for my Rails apps—RMagick. I know it’s possible to install RMagick and its dependencies, um, “autoRMagickally” via a package management system like MacPorts or Fink, but I prefer not to. For some background on why not, you can read this article at hivelogic. The last time I was rebuilding my laptop and desktop near the same time, I put together a shell script to automate the process of installing RMagick. I got it back out and dusted off the cobwebs, and voila! RMagick on Leopard. (note: replace wget with “curl -O”, if you don’t have wget installed on your machine) Here’s the code:

install_rmagick.sh

#!/bin/sh
wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
tar xzvf freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
cd freetype-2.3.5
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..

wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/libpng-1.2.22.tar.bz2
tar jxvf libpng-1.2.22.tar.bz2
cd libpng-1.2.22
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..

wget ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
tar xzvf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
cd jpeg-6b
ln -s `which glibtool` ./libtool
export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..

wget ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/libtiff/tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz
tar xzvf tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz
cd tiff-3.8.2
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..

wget http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wvware/libwmf-0.2.8.4.tar.gz
tar xzvf libwmf-0.2.8.4.tar.gz
cd libwmf-0.2.8.4
make clean
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..

wget http://www.littlecms.com/lcms-1.17.tar.gz
tar xzvf lcms-1.17.tar.gz
cd lcms-1.17
make clean
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..

wget ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs860/ghostscript-8.60.tar.gz
tar zxvf ghostscript-8.60.tar.gz
cd ghostscript-8.60/
./configure  --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..

wget ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/current/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz
tar zxvf ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz
sudo mv fonts /usr/local/share/ghostscript

wget http://imagemagick.site2nd.org/imagemagick/ImageMagick-6.3.5-9.tar.gz
tar xzvf ImageMagick-6.3.5-9.tar.gz
cd ImageMagick-6.3.5
export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include
export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-static --with-modules --without-perl --without-magick-plus-plus --with-quantum-depth=8 --with-gs-font-dir=/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts
make
sudo make install
cd ..

sudo gem install RMagick

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by Sven

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:32:15 +0000

I’m not such a big fan of Fink (too outdated) and MacPorts (awfully poor dependency handling) either. But as my servers are running smoothly on Gentoo for years now, I’ve chosen Gentoo Prefix as my distro of choice for the Mac, too. Here’s more on how I did it:

http://www.bitcetera.com/en/tecblog/2008/05/08/gentoo-prefix-on-mac-os-x/

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by Sven

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:31:54 +0000

http://www.bitcetera.com/en/tecblog/2008/05/08/gentoo-prefix-on-mac-os-x/

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by Tiffani

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:17:42 +0000

This was an absolutely great post. After fumbling around with ImageMagick and RMagick on OS X all day I was just about to hang it up like I’d done a few months ago. I wasn’t working an absolutely clean install, so no other directions worked. This did. THAAAANKS!

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by manuel

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:09:03 +0000

Hi. I install with this step but when try executing my web aplication in ruby on rails say this:

no such file to load—RMagick

I test with this: irb(main):001:0> require ‘rubygems’ => true irb(main):002:0> require ‘rmagick’ => true

any idea? please. thanks.

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by b

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:26:13 +0000

when i try to install libwmf, and run the “make” command, I get the following error:

make: * No rule to make target `clean’. Stop.

Is this some incompatibility with my compiler, and is the “clean” part needed (what does it do)?

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by Kyle

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:21:30 +0000

Thanks for this; saved me a bit of headache.

As of Sep 30, 2008, here’s an updated version using curl and with 100% valid urls.

http://pastie.org/282226

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by Cary

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:03:02 +0000

Thank you! Saved alot of time.

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by Web Design Preston

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:47:05 +0000

Thanks to Julie for the URL’s. Saved me a heap of time.

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by Jeffrey Krause

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:01:44 +0000

Here is the latest modified version which worked for me on a new leopard install, new links, new versions, etc:

#!/bin/sh
curl -O http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.3.7.tar.gz
tar xzvf freetype-2.3.7.tar.gz
cd freetype-2.3.7
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..

curl -O http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/libpng-1.2.29.tar.bz2
tar jxvf libpng-1.2.29.tar.bz2
cd libpng-1.2.29
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..

curl -O http://quirkysoft.googlecode.com/files/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
tar xzvf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
cd jpeg-6b
ln -s `which glibtool` ./libtool
export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5.4
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo mkdir /usr/local/man/man1
sudo make install
cd ..

curl -O ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/libtiff/tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz
tar xzvf tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz
cd tiff-3.8.2
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..

curl -O http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wvware/libwmf-0.2.8.4.tar.gz
tar xzvf libwmf-0.2.8.4.tar.gz
cd libwmf-0.2.8.4
make clean
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..

curl -O http://www.littlecms.com/lcms-1.17.tar.gz
tar xzvf lcms-1.17.tar.gz
cd lcms-1.17
make clean
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..

curl -O ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs860/ghostscript-8.60.tar.gz
tar zxvf ghostscript-8.60.tar.gz
cd ghostscript-8.60/
./configure  --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..

curl -O ftp.yzu.edu.tw/mirror/pub1/Unix/Tex/CTAN/support/ghostscript/GPL/gs815/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz
tar zxvf ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz
sudo mv fonts /usr/local/share/ghostscript

curl -O ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.4.2-6.tar.gz
tar xzvf ImageMagick-6.4.2-6.tar.gz
cd ImageMagick-6.4.2
export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include
export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-static --with-modules --without-perl --without-magick-plus-plus --with-quantum-depth=8 --with-gs-font-dir=/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts
make
sudo make install
cd ..

sudo gem install rmagick

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by Bob F.

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:05:13 +0000

This worked pretty well on a brand new Leopard system. I used curl and adjusted some URLs, as mentioned by others already.

I’d like to point out two problems:

It’s important you build a later version of libpng, as there’s a vulnerability in the version given here.
If you see this error during the installation phase of the jpeg ”/usr/local/man/man1/cjpeg.1: No such file or directory” it just indicates that the directory /usr/local/man/man1 doesn’t exist and you need to create it before running the install.

Thanks for putting this together… it saved me a ton of headaches.

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by D. Starr

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:28:07 +0000

Hi, I’m just wondering why you didn’t compile Ghostscript as a framework (which seems to be the recommended way) and if you’ve tested that your IM can actually call GS to delegate vector formats.

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by Huy Tong

Tue, 06 May 2008 16:24:28 +0000

Nice script. I did the steps and it didn’t work on my end. Something about the headers. I’m trying the OSX installer now provided on the forge, I think it pretty much does what your script does but I’ll wait and see.

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by Lance Carlson

Mon, 05 May 2008 05:55:31 +0000

I think it’s sudo gem install rmagick not RMagick. Otherwise everything worked pretty well with the urls from Julie.

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by nick

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:30:47 +0000

Thank you very much! Everything worked! :)

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by Julie

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:54:31 +0000

there was a problem with both ghostscript ftps, so I substituted:

wget http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ghostscript/ghostscript-8.60.tar.gz

and

wget http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ghostscript/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by Adam

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:12:39 +0000

@Peter: If you didn’t figure this out already, the gem is in fact called ‘rmagick’, so “sudo gem install rmagick” should work for you.

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by Peter

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:26:44 +0000

hmmm, when i follow this guide, i eventually get this at the end (after gem install RMagick): ERROR: could not find RMagick locally or in a repository

any ideas/

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by Justin Grevich

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:55:08 +0000

@Tim

You may also need to require ‘rubygems’ before requiring RMagick in irb (depending if you are using an .irbrc or not). Somehow my OS X install of Ruby auto-installed an .irbrc for me. I posted an example of it here: http://pastie.org/158471

Hope that helps,

justin

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by Dave Frey

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:11:18 +0000

Excellent, thanks a lot.

Your ImageMagick link was broken for me, but I found another here: http://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.3.5-9.tar.gz

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by Robert Aganauskas

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 05:26:03 +0000

@Tim: you have to require rubygems before rmagick i.e.

irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require 'RMagick'
=> true

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by Patrick

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:57:24 +0000

thanks so much, worked like a champ.

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by Markus Arike

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:56:30 +0000

I had great success with the rm_install.rb script that is available at RubyForge’s RMagick http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/ page . It automates the process, much like the above script, but seems to do more clean up, error handling, etc. After trying to get it working on OSX for so long, to no avail, I finally have it. It’s good day.

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by Simon Plenderleith

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:37:53 +0000

Dude… you are an absolute saviour! I’ve been going crazy trying to get ImageMagick working as I want it in Leopard. I changed the URLs as required and it worked great.

Thank you so much!

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by kematzy

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:26:42 +0000

Thanks a lot!! Worked a treat apart from the URL issues which were commented about above.

"Installing RMagick on Leopard (without MacPorts or Fink)" by jm

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:52:59 +0000

A good link to compile wget once and for all on leopard : http://radio.javaranch.com/bear/2005/03/02/1109829480523.html

Thanks for this script !