yesĬhecking for ImageMagick version >= 6.4.9. Users/jkamenik/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352/bin/ruby extconf.rbĬhecking for Ruby version >= 1.8.5.

This could take a while.ĮRROR: Failed to build gem native extension. If everything's worked out, you should now see an Imagick section here.Building native extensions. Finally valet restart and go back to your Utilities > PHP Info in your control panel. Once this command has been run, and the directory has been created, try running pecl install imagick again and maybe run php please glide:clear to be on the safe side. In this case, you needed to run: pecl config-get ext_dir | pbcopyįollowed by pressing cmd + v to paste the value you just copied to your clipboard. I eventually found an article by Patrique Ouimet, which detailed a fix-thank you, Patrique! This didn't help the error I ran into-which in this case was: warning: mkdir(): File exists in System.php on line 294 The good news is you can usually Google search-engine your way out of an error when it comes to popular software-and luckily ImageMagick is relatively popular.īefore you start searching for fixes it may be worth clearing the cache first with: php please glide:clear While ImageMagick usually runs smoothly you'll see in the video I ran into an error. In my experience development environment things seldom “just work”-there's either something you forgot to set or some error you need to deal with. You'll know ImageMagick is successfully installed if 1) it generates Statamic Glide images correctly, and 2) if you go to yoursite/cp/utilities/phpinfo you should a new full section with the headline imagick, with the first row of the section detailing the imagick module version Once complete try running valet restart and refreshing your site. When prompted with Please provide the prefix of Imagemagick installation : just hit enter. At this point in the video, I was prompted to run a command to remove some leftover files. If Terminal tells you the version number, then you're good to go. To check if you have homebrew installed, you can run brew -v.

Search for driver and change the value to imagick Installing ImageMagick LocallyĮven if you're comfortable getting ImageMagick installed on your production server, installing locally will likely be a different process. For most cases, this will probably be an OK default, but from my experience using ImageMagick as alternative image processing software generates far superior images-especially with larger, more noticeable images. You may be wondering “Why would I want to do this?” By default, like most CMS’s, Statamic generates images using software called “GD” (Graphics Draw). As part of my Statamic series, this post covers installing ImageMagick locally to process images, to get superior image quality on your sites.

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