[magick-users] Installing IM 6.4.1 on OSX 10.5.3

[Mark Schonewille]

Hello,

I'm new to this list, not familiar with customs and habits, here. Hope  
you don't mind me asking about a subject that certainly has been  
discussed before. I have searched the archives without any useful  
results.

I have downloaded the binaries of IM 6.4.1 for Mac OS X a few days  
ago. I have to use these binaries from the command line, using the OSX  
terminal rather than X11. As far as I understand from the docs, X11 is  
only necessary if one wants to use a GUI, which I don't want to.

Here <http://imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#macosx> is  
clearly says: "Note, the display program requires the X11 server  
available on your Mac OS X installation DVD", which means everything  
else can be used from the regular command line, without X11.

The same website contains instructions to set a number of environment  
variables. These variables can't be set in the OSX terminal. I can use  
the export command to set a variable, but this variable only works in  
the current process/shell. It won't work if I use the same variable in  
a different shell process.

Are the instructions wrong? What do I do to make OSX find IM? What is  
the right way to install the binaries about installing them?

So far, the binaries are just sitting on my hard disk. I can execute  
the convert command with the following result:

$ ./convert ~/desktop/picture.gif
dyld: Library not loaded: /ImageMagick-6.4.1/lib/libMagickCore.1.dylib
   Referenced from: /Users/Mark/Desktop/ImageMagick-6.4.1/bin/./convert
   Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap

Apparently, the convert utility can run, but not complete its task.  
libMagickCore.1.dylib exists and so does picture.gif.

Thanks for any pointers, advice, or references to good docs.

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Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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