ImageMagick port outdated

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 27, 2020, at 18:20, Uli Wienands wrote:

> Being curious, and just having received my first .HEIC image ever (form a guy with an iPhone), I upgraded ImageMagic to the present version (worked) and then tried it: It failed. Here are the call & the error message:
> 
> macbook-pro:Pictures uli$ convert IMG_3160.HEIC img_3160.png
> convert: unable to load module `/opt/local/lib/ImageMagick-6.9.11/modules-Q16/coders/heic.la': file not found @ error/module.c/OpenModule/1315.
> convert: no decode delegate for this image format `HEIC' @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/566.
> convert: no images defined `img_3160.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3226.
> 
> The weird thing is that /opt/local/lib/ImageMagick-6.9.11/modules-Q16/coders/heic.la actually exists, and so are the four related libraries in /opt/local/bin: /opt/local/lib/libheif.1.dylib /opt/local/lib/libheif.a    /opt/local/lib/libheif.dylib /opt/local/lib/libheif.la
> 
> So, what could be amiss?

Not sure! I tried converting some heic images now and it worked fine for me on macOS 10.13.6.

What's the contents of /opt/local/lib/ImageMagick-6.9.11/modules-Q16/coders/heic.la?

Does /opt/local/lib/ImageMagick-6.9.11/modules-Q16/coders/heic.so also exist? What's the output of:

otool -L /opt/local/lib/ImageMagick-6.9.11/modules-Q16/coders/heic.so


What OS version are you on? You mentioned /opt/local/lib/libheif.la exists. The default behavior for MacPorts is to delete .la files* on OS X 10.9 and later. If you are on 10.8 or earlier, maybe there is a problem specific to older OS versions that we need to investigate. The only reason why you should have /opt/local/lib/libheif.la if you're on 10.9 or later is if you edited macports.conf and set "delete_la_files no".


*ImageMagick is an exception. It needs the .la files of its modules for proper operation so they will not be deleted for that port on any OS version.