I'm using xampp to do some localhost tests of my PHP projects, but just realized that I'm missing the Imagick package. I've searched around and cannot find a set of instructions (dumbed down to my level) to install ImageMagick.
I followed a tutorial involving MacPorts only to find out later that you can install it via PECL within xampp (whatever that means).
cd /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/bin/
pecl download imagick
Running the above resulted in:
invalid package name/package file "imagick"
download failed
I'm a web coder with embarrassingly ZERO server-type skills. Any help is MUCH appreciated. I think I read something about needing the devel version of xampp. Could that be my problem? And how would I know if that's what I've got?
Mac Verion 10.6.7 Xampp version 1.7.3
What are the results of executing
$ pecl search imagick
I just downloaded XAMPP to test this, and had the following results:
mlambie@destro:/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin$ ./pecl search imagick
Retrieving data...0%
Matched packages, channel pecl.php.net:
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Package Stable/(Latest) Local
imagick 3.1.0b1 (beta) Provides a wrapper to the ImageMagick library.
Note that whilst pecl can see the package, attempting to install it with $ pecl install imagick failed with the following error:
ERROR: `/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/temp/pear/temp/imagick/configure --with-imagick' failed
This is because I do not have the ImageMagick libraries installed on my machine. I rectified that with:
$ brew install imagemagick
(I use homebrew instead of MacPorts to manage this kind of thing).
I was still missing the PHP headers, which I installed using the XAMPP Developer Package. I downloaded and installed this from the same location where I downloaded XAMPP from. Note that the Developer Package is a separate DMG entirely.
Once that was done, I successfully compiled the module with:
$ pecl install imagick