From: Tim Hunter Date: 2003-05-08T08:47:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Installing RMagick on OS X On Wed, 07 May 2003 14:39:53 -0700, Francis Hwang wrote: > Tim Hunter wrote in message > news:... > >> Another fellow tried to install RMagick on OS X a few weeks ago and >> reached the same impasse. After several days of trying things >> back-and-forth we gave up in frustration. I think it's going to take >> somebody who understands OS X installs to figure out the problem and >> tell me what I need to change in the RMagick installation procedure. >> Sadly, I don't have access to an OS X machine. > > OK, thanks. BTW, what's InitializeMagick? > > Francis InitializeMagick is an entry point in libMagick.so (or libMagick.ar, if you built a static library). What you're seeing is the configure script trying to determine in you've installed ImageMagick by creating a little test program that references InitializeMagick, compiling it, and then linking it. (If that works, then it knows you've got ImageMagick. If that fails, it tries the same scheme to find InitializeMagick in libGraphicsMagick.so, which is a brand-new fork of IM and RMagick doesn't really support yet.) My belief is that if you can successfully run the ImageMagick utilities such as convert or mogrify, then this step of the configure script should also work. And it does on various flavors of Linux, FreeBSD, and cygwin. I don't know why it doesn't work on OS X, especially since OS X is supposed to be very compatible with other free *nixes. However, I'm OS X clue-free, so I'm hoping that some kind OS X-knowledgeable person can point out what I need to do to get RMagick to install on OS X. Anyway, sorry you're having trouble, and thanks for trying RMagick!