install ImageMagick on Mac without porting

[TechnoPhil]

Hi,
i am trying to install IM on my Mac (10.8.2) without porting programs!
How can i do that? Anyone can help me?

Thanks!
Filippo

[fmw42]

Hi,
i am trying to install IM on my Mac (10.8.2) without porting programs!
How can i do that? Anyone can help me?

Thanks!
Filippo

What do you mean by "without porting programs"? Do you mean without MacPorts or FINK?

If you want to install IM, then the easiest way is to install the Mac Binary for Mountain Lion. see http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binar ... php#macosx and download the binary and follow the instructions below the binary. Ignore the part above the binary for MacPorts.

You can also install IM manually from source, but then you have to manually install all the delegate libraries that you might want, such as for tiff, jpg, png. Then install IM afterwards. See

http://www.imagemagick.org/download/delegates/
http://www.imagemagick.org/download/www ... .html#unix
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/advan ... lation.php

[TechnoPhil]

Yes, i mean without MacPorts!

Now i have on my home directory the ImageMagick folder.
I can see the instruction but i can't understand what "MAGICK_HOME" and "DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH" environment variables are!

I know that on Mac OS, bin executables are in /usr/bin

[fmw42]

IM might be installed at /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. My install from source goes to the latter.

I cannot explain the export commands. I would just do what the instructions say. see http://www.imagemagick.org/script/resou ... nvironment

By the way, be sure you have X11 installed. It is usually on the Install disk or you can search for it at http://www.apple.com

[TechnoPhil]

This can help someone:

curl -O http://www.imagemagick.org/download/bin ... 2.0.tar.gz
tar xvfz ImageMagick-x86_64-apple-darwin12.2.0.tar.gz
sudo cp -rf ImageMagick-6.8.0/ /usr/local/

Remember to download the last version of ImageMagick "apple-darwin"

I discovered that MacPorts or other porting programs are the better way to install ImageMagick because many dependancies are needed!