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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?

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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!

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Joel Farris
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  • After doing this, I get "Uncaught exception 'ImagickException' with message 'NoDecodeDelegateForThisImageFormat" while trying to create a thumbnail. – Meetai.com Jun 22 '14 at 06:16
  • This may have to do with the file extension of your image. Are you trying it with a '.jpg'? – Joel Farris Jun 24 '14 at 01:28
  • Tried with both a jpg and a png, same error. Finally I'm trying with exec() or passthrough(), because the sytem-installed binary works ok, until I find a way that imagick reads those. – Meetai.com Jun 24 '14 at 02:15
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    If you don't have MAMP Pro, depending on your PHP version look here in OSX: **/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.14/conf/php.ini** then just create an alias in your .bash_profile and easily edit your php.ini file whenever you need to: **alias phpini='nano /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.14/conf/php.ini'** – i_a Feb 24 '15 at 19:07
  • After losing a lot of time, this is for me the best answer for install ImageMagick for MAMP 3.4 on 2015.. – Julien Malige Sep 07 '15 at 21:49
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    Note that PHP 7 in MAMP 3.5 does not have the ImageMagick extension installed. So uncommenting it in the php.ini file won't have any effect there. – Lutsen Aug 30 '16 at 12:14
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Make sure you check out Joel Farris' answer if you're using an up-to-date version of MAMP

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!

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  • I had to run this before running the above `brew tap josegonzalez/php` `brew tap homebrew/dupes` as per http://stackoverflow.com/a/16064860/778669 – Kus Jan 07 '14 at 04:06
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    apparently the latest mamp pro version comes with imagemagick pre-installed, Check http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp-pro/ – erwinheiser Apr 01 '14 at 16:23
  • I had to run `brew update` and clean up the whole thing before running `brew install php55-imagick` – Anriëtte Myburgh Jun 02 '15 at 21:30
  • Thanks, it really helped. I was failing on instruction by egoco.de, but your two lines of code fixed everything ;) Cheers! – Gediminas Šukys Jan 22 '17 at 16:38
  • if imagick is preinstalled on mamp then why can't i use it. i also use bluehost and it says it's supposed to be preinstalled as well but it still says not found. can someone PLEASE help me with this. it's driving me nuts – Alex May 29 '17 at 23:15
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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.

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We made a Mac installer package here— http://www.cactuslab.com/imagemagick/

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