I am pulling my hair out over this damn ImageMagick, PerlMagick thing. All I want to do is create a web site, on OSX, that can do all the cool crap that I have seen ImageMagick do through a web browser (using Perl of course). The problem is... I CAN"T GET IT TO WORK! I have used fink to install ImageMagick and it works great through the GNOME GUI. No problems there. Beyond that, I'm stumped. Isn't PerlMagick supposed to be installed automattically when IM is installed? If it is, I have no idea how to link my perl scripts, running on the OSX Apache server, to any PerlMagick components residing within Fink's "/sw" directory. Does PerlMagick get installed with IM when installed through fink? If not, how do I get it installed? Do I need to install IM without Fink? I have tried to install PM from source and I get errors (I think it has something to do with dynamic linking which OSX perl does not seem to do well (by the way, how do I fix that?)). How do I get the Perl script "MagickStudio.cgi" (that resides in my CGI-Executables directory to use PerlMagick?
If anyone could just provide some nice, clear, & concise installation instructions to get from point A to point B, that would be great. It doesn't have to be simple, just clear. Assume that nothing is installed and I'm starting from scratch (that should make it easier). I'm running Jaguar (10.2.1) by the way. Sorry if I'm jumping around a bit but this is just the most irritating situation. Why can't Apple (god bless them) make their OS infrastructure more like default Linux? It would be so much easier to get shit done. Anyway, any help on the above mentioned topic would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Ned Dupont
