RMagick on Mac OS X - weird error

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Hey,

I’m trying to install RMagick on Leopard, and I’ve already installed
ImageMagick. Here’s the version I have:
$ convert -version
Version: ImageMagick 6.3.9 03/17/08 Q8 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2008 ImageMagick Studio LLC

I downloaded RMagick-1.15.13.tar.gz from this page:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=12&release_id=18732

There are some simple instructions once you extract RMagick.
$ ./configure
$ make
($ su)
$ make install
(optionally)
$ make clean

I ran “./configure” and everything seemed to run fine.

Then I ran “make” and after a bit, got these weird errors:
rmimage.c: In function ‘Image_delay’:
rmimage.c:3569: error: ‘C_unsigned’ undeclared (first use in this
function)
rmimage.c:3569: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
rmimage.c:3569: error: for each function it appears in.)
rmimage.c:3569: error: syntax error before ‘long_to_R_unsigned’

I’ve searched for solutions to this, but haven’t found anything. Can
anyone help? rmagick has been driving me bonkers.

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I’m trying to install RMagick on Leopard, and I’ve already installed
ImageMagick. Here’s the version I have:
$ convert -version
Version: ImageMagick 6.3.9 03/17/08 Q8 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2008 ImageMagick Studio LLC

I downloaded RMagick-1.15.13.tar.gz from this page:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=12&release_id=18732

Why not download 2.2.2?

I’m on leopard…

$ convert -version
Version: ImageMagick 6.3.9 03/12/08 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2008 ImageMagick Studio LLC

$ gem search rmagick

*** LOCAL GEMS ***
rmagick (2.2.2)

I just did “sudo gem install rmagick” though…

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I tried to use rmagick-1.15.13 just because I had it working on another
computer.

But anyhoo, if I try
sudo gem install rmagick

I get this error:
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
ERROR: Error installing rmagick:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

and then these errors at the end:
rmimage.c:3181: error: ‘C_unsigned’ undeclared (first use in this
function)
rmimage.c:3181: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
rmimage.c:3181: error: for each function it appears in.)
rmimage.c:3181: error: syntax error before ‘long_to_R_unsigned’

Does anyone know why I can’t seem to install rmagick?

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and then these errors at the end:
rmimage.c:3181: error: ‘C_unsigned’ undeclared (first use in this
function)
rmimage.c:3181: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
rmimage.c:3181: error: for each function it appears in.)
rmimage.c:3181: error: syntax error before ‘long_to_R_unsigned’

Does anyone know why I can’t seem to install rmagick?

Do you have Xcode installed?

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I posted to below guy…ooops:

My 2 cents:
In my experience with ImageMagick and RMagick on OSX. You need the
latest version of Xcode installed with the latest X11 also. The gem
actually does compilation too if I recall and you can spend hours
trying to figure out issues that have to do with older libs. Do this
first and then retry.

H

On Mar 18, 10:12 am, Joe P. [email protected]

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I tested ImageMagick by converting a .gif to a .jpg, and it worked
great.

My only problem seems to be rmagick. Whenever I try
“sudo gem install rmagick”
I get
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
ERROR: Error installing rmagick:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

Do I need to specify some options when I install rmagick?

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My 2 cents:
In my experience with ImageMagick and RMagick on OSX. You need the
latest version of Xcode installed with the latest X11 also. The gem
actually does compilation too if I recall and you can spend hours
trying to figure out issues that have to do with older libs. Do this
first and then retry.

H

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blasterpal wrote:

My 2 cents:
In my experience with ImageMagick and RMagick on OSX. You need the
latest version of Xcode installed with the latest X11 also. The gem
actually does compilation too if I recall and you can spend hours
trying to figure out issues that have to do with older libs. Do this
first and then retry.

H

How can I see what versions of XCode and X11 I have installed?

Thanks for all advice, I still have hope that I’ll get RMagick working
on this computer :slight_smile:

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I am pretty sure Xcode is installed – doing “locate xcode” yields a lot
of results.

I can install all other gems, but not rmagick. I already have
ImageMagick installed, too. Any ideas on what the problem could be?

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Welp, looks like I already have X11 on the computer:

$ X -version
TransformProcessType: Success
X11.app starting:
X.org Release 7.2
X.Org Xquartz X Server 1.3.0-apple5
Build Date: 20080109

Also, I already have XCode:
version 3.0

So those seem fine. Plus I have ImageMagick installed. What more do I
need to do to be able to install RMagick??

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installing RMagick is always a tricky one. Recommend checking out this
installer script: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=12&release_id=16101

On Mar 18, 11:46 am, Joe P. [email protected]

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[email protected] wrote:

installing RMagick is always a tricky one. Recommend checking out this
installer script: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=12&release_id=16101
It definitely is a tricky one. I’ve already tried that, to no avail.
My guess now is that I have more than one version of ImageMagick
installed.

$ convert -version
Version: ImageMagick 6.3.9 03/17/08 Q8 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2008 ImageMagick Studio LLC

But when I do “locate ImageMagick” it just finds a bunch of
ImageMagick-6.3.2 files, no ImageMagick-6.3.9 files at all. And when I
go to look at those ImageMagick-6.3.2 files, they aren’t there.

Does anyone have some good advice on how to completely remove
ImageMagick? It’s like a week that I can’t kill…