Compiling ImageMagick for MAMP Pro

Posted on November 20, 2012

Today I spent a good few hours trying to get ImageMagick to compile for MAMP on OSX. It seems like plenty of other people have also had to deal with this, so I thought I’d write up how I did it.

For the record, this was running MAMP Pro on OSX 10.7. You’re going to need xcode installed, and I used Macports to make life easier.

1. In terminal, run sudo port install imagick.
2. Edit ~/.profile and add the following line, where # is whatever version of PHP you’re running in MAMP. Mine was 5.3.14.
   export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php#.#.##/bin:$PATH
3. Go to http://mamp.info/en/downloads/index.html and download MAMP Components (as of this writing, MAMP_components_2.0.2.zip)
4. Unzip that file, find the latest version of PHP (it was 5.3.6 for me) and untar (tar -xf) that file. Move the untarred directory to /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php#.#.##/include/php
5. cd into that directory and run ./configure, then make, and finally make install
6. Download imagick from http://pecl.php.net/get/imagick-2.3.0.tgz
7. Untar that file, and then cd into the directory and run ./configure, then make, and make install
8. Edit the appropriate php.ini, find where the rest of the extensions are, and add:
   extension=imagick.so

And that’s it! Well, mostly. Again, no guarantee that this will work for everyone – but hopefully it at least points you in the right direction.

Sources:

• http://forum.mamp.info/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=15399
• http://www.lullabot.com/articles/installing-php-pear-and-pecl-extensions-on-mamp-mac-os-x-107-lion
• http://unrealexpectations.com/blog/2010/01/mamp-imagick-on-snow-leopard/
• http://lelandcope.com/2012/04/installing-imagemagick-php-into-mamp-pro-2-0-5-os-10-7-x-lion/