On Mar 3, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Timothy Hunter wrote:

> James Edward Gray II wrote:
>> On Mar 3, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Timothy Hunter wrote:
>>
>>> The reason I'm asking these questions is because I'm working on a  
>>> Ruby program to download and install ImageMagick, all its  
>>> delegate libraries, and RMagick, on OS X, starting from scratch  
>>> and not using MacPorts.
>>
>> I just spent about a day fixing my RMagick install (on Mac OS X),  
>> that had become horribly broken, so releasing something like this  
>> would make you a hero in my eyes.
>>
>> James Edward Gray II
>>
> Ouch! Sorry you had trouble. Email me when you have a problem,  
> James. I'll be glad to do what I can to help.
>
> BTW, just last week I updated my "Installing RMagick on OS X HOWTO"  
> here: http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-osx.html. I guess it's  
> too late to help you but maybe it'll help somebody else.
>

	Here is a shell script I wrote a while ago to build ruby/imagemagick/ 
rmagick on OSX without using macports. Feel free to use it if you want.

#!/bin/sh

# Install Ruby & IMageMagick & RMagick on Macintosh OS X 10.4.7 (Intel)
# Stock Apple Developer Tools (2.3)

# Readline
READLINE_VERSION="5.1"
wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-${READLINE_VERSION}.tar.gz
tar xzvf readline-${READLINE_VERSION}.tar.gz
pushd readline-${READLINE_VERSION}
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
popd


# Ruby

RUBY_VERSION="1.8.5"

wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-${RUBY_VERSION}.tar.gz
tar xfz ruby-${RUBY_VERSION}.tar.gz

pushd ruby-${RUBY_VERSION}
./configure
make
sudo make install
popd

# Ruby Gems

GEM_VERSION="0.9.2"

wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/11289/rubygems-$ 
{GEM_VERSION}.tgz
tar xfz rubygems-${GEM_VERSION}.tgz

pushd rubygems-${GEM_VERSION}
sudo ruby setup.rb
popd

# ImageMagick

LPNG_VERSION="1.2.12"

wget ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/src/libpng-$ 
{LPNG_VERSION}.tar.gz
tar xfz libpng-${LPNG_VERSION}.tar.gz

pushd libpng-${LPNG_VERSION}
./configure
make
sudo make install
popd

JPEG_VERSION="6b"

wget http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v${JPEG_VERSION}.tar.gz
tar xfz jpegsrc.v${JPEG_VERSION}.tar.gz

pushd jpeg-${JPEG_VERSION}
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo make install-lib
popd

TIFF_VERSION="3.8.2"

wget ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/tiff-${TIFF_VERSION}.tar.gz
tar xfz tiff-${TIFF_VERSION}.tar.gz

pushd tiff-${TIFF_VERSION}
./configure
make
sudo make install
popd

IM_VERSION_MAJOR="6.2.9"
IM_VERSION_MINOR="4"

IM_VERSION="${IM_VERSION_MAJOR}-${IM_VERSION_MINOR}"

wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.net/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-$ 
{IM_VERSION}.tar.gz
tar xfz ImageMagick-${IM_VERSION}.tar.gz

pushd ImageMagick-${IM_VERSION_MAJOR}
./configure
make
sudo make install
popd


sudo gem install rmagick


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