Hi, No response yet. Did I send my question to the wrong list?
Best, Mark > 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. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Benefit from our inexpensive hosting services. See http://economy-x-talk.com/server.html for more info. _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
