How to install Image Magick for MAMP (Pro) on Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Question

I've been searching for a way to install Image Magick on my Mountain Lion setup (where I use MAMP Pro). I did find this article, but it isn't specific to ML. Also found a couple other similar questions here on SO but they were too specific I think. Doesn't help that I'm not great at this sort of thing. Can anyone point me to a good resource?

Answer 1

As was pointed out in erwinheiser's comment, MAMP 3 now comes with imagemagick pre-installed. I checked MAMP's User Guide (PDF) and found this:

The ImageMagick PHP module is included by default, but you must enable it inside the php.ini template file. Remove the ‘;’ from the following line.

;extension=imagick.so

And how do you find and change the (right) php.ini file for MAMP Pro?

• From MAMP's menu choose File › Edit Template › PHP › [the latest version]
  • or use the keyboard shortcut: ⌘4
• Make the edit. (Imagick was was at line 542 in mine.)
• Save and close the file.
• MAMP asks if you want to restart the servers now, choose yes.

And you're done!

Answer 2

Make sure you check out Joel Farris' answer if you're using an up-to-date version of MAMP

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I finally managed to get it installed properly using Homebrew and the instructions here: http://egoco.de/post/23167969231/installing-imagemagick-for-php-and-mamp

I did have to run brew doctor and brew link a couple of times to fix dependencies (and change permissions on a file or two), and use

brew install php54-imagick

rather than the one mentioned at the url.

The extension he mentions at the end (the bit you have to paste in your different ini files) is:

[imagick]
extension="/usr/local/Cellar/php54-imagick/3.1.0RC2/imagick.so"

Hope it helps!

Answer 3

MAMP comes with Imagick installed. I have MAMP v3.2.1 (not MAMP Pro) running on OS X 10.10.3 (Yosemite).

I enabled imagick by editing php.ini file which comes with MAMP.

php.ini file is available on the following path:

/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.7/conf/php.ini

Replace 5.6.7 with your php version number.

php.ini file will contain the following line:

;extension=imagick.so

Change that line to:

extension=imagick.so

Now restart the MAMP servers and you are good to go.