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IMAGICK WITH HEIC (nginx/php)

This write up will cover building ImageMagick with HEIC support and also building pecl's imagick in order to bring that functionality into PHP for use in web applications.  A lot of documentation that has been put out on this topic seems to be exclusive to Ubuntu and/or just totally misses the PHP portion.  In addition, the RHEL based world just wants to push everyone to OS version 9.  I just can't want to right at this moment.  So, this write up will cover that hole.

For the sake of brevity, I have already written a document on installing nginx and php, in addition a document on installing libheif.  Please work through those write ups before continuing through on this one.  You may already have a loaded web server and if so, just make sure that you cover the libheif install.  That install gets the components in place that we will need in order to make this next procedure go smoothly (libheif holds the keys to heic).

 

If all is well...  here we go.

PECL: https://pecl.php.net
IMAGEMAGICK: https://imagemagick.org (GIT: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick)

# ----- JUMP ON OVER TO OUR HAPPY PLACE -----

cd /opt

# ----- AT TIME OF WRITTING THE VERSION NUMBERS WERE -----

IM7="7.1.1-45"  # ImageMagick-7.1.1-45
IMK="3.7.0"     # imagick-3-7-0

# ----- MAKE A DIRECTORY AND PULL DOWN THE SOURCE FILES -----

mkdir imagick && cd imagick
wget https://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick.tar.gz
wget https://pecl.php.net/get/imagick-${IMK}.tgz

 

Ok.  I need to interrupt myself for a sec.  

If ImageMagick and/or the php-pecl-imagick are installed, they need to NOT be anymore.  I will detail my "clean out" real quick.  If this is a fresh system and you have been following my write ups, then please just skip past this part (but for good measure, you could double check).

 

# ----- STOP WEB SERVICES -----

systemctl stop nginx
systemctl stop php-fpm

# ----- DNF REMOVE IMAGEMAGICK AND IMAGICK -----

dnf -y remove *ImageMagick* *imagick*

# ----- GRAB MLOCATE TO MAKE A SOME SYSTEM SEARCHES A LITTLE FASTER -----

dnf install mlocate

# ----- UPDATE THE LOCATE DB -----

updatedb

# ----- SEARCH SYSTEM FOR REMNANTS AND REMOVE THEM -----

locate -i imagemagick
locate -i magick

## NOTE: Remove anything related to those applications that may still
##       be lingering around.

## PROTIP:  May be a bit easier to spot anything if you didn't extract
##          the packages we pulled down just yet.  If so, just remove
##          the extracted folders and re-update mlocate (updatedb).

 

OK. If verified that the system is free and clear of those packages, then, back to the not so regularly scheduled program.

 

# ----- UNPACK THE PACKAGES -----

cd /opt/imagick

tar xzf ImageMagick.tar.gz
tar xzf imagick-${IMK}.tgz

# ----- SOURCE THE CODECS AND LOAD LIBRARIES -----

## NOTE: THE PATHS BELOW ARE TAKEN FROM MY PREVIOUS
##       WRITE UP ON INSTALLING LIBHEIF.

## THIS PART ALONE IS KEY TO THE ENTIRE INSTALL!!

source /root/.bashrc
source /opt/codecs/PKGCONFPATH
ldconfig

# ----- CONFIGURE IMAGEMAGICK -----

cd ImageMagick-${IM7}

./configure \
--with-heic \
--with-webp \
--with-jpeg \
--with-openjp2 \
--with-dmr \
--with-dps \
--with-gslib \
--with-lqr \
--with-lzma \
--with-png \
--with-raw \
--with-rsvg \
--with-tiff \
--with-wmf \
--with-xml \
--with-zip \
--with-zlib \
--enable-hdri \
--enable-year2038 \
--enable-legacy-support \
--enable-hugepages

# ----- MAKE SURE THAT HEIC WAS FOUND THEN GO AHEAD A MAKE AND INSTALL -----

make -j$(nproc)

make install

 

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