ImageMagick: dyld: Library not loaded. Reason: image not found

Question

1. I downloaded ImageMagick from https://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php#macosx
2. extracted it to ~/Documents/software
3. my .profile looks like this:

export MAGICK_HOME="~/Documents/software/ImageMagick-7.0.7"
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="$MAGICK_HOME/lib/"
export PATH="$MAGICK_HOME/bin:$PATH"

4. when I run convert I get:

dyld: Library not loaded: /ImageMagick-7.0.7/lib/libMagickCore-7.Q16HDRI.4.dylib
Referenced from: /Users/oa/Documents/software/ImageMagick-7.0.7/bin/convert
Reason: image not found Abort trap: 6

Persecute

Any reason not to use homebrew? It is miles easier to manage all your packages that way - i.e. brew install imagemagick and you are done. – Pervade

Thanks @MarkSetchell, but the reason being I want to get to the bottom of this annoying error. – Persecute

First, try using $HOME instead of ~ as that works in more shells. Second, try using otool -L /Users/oa/Documents/software/ImageMagick-7.0.7/bin/convert to see what your convert binary actually needs/wants. Also, try DYLD_PRINT_LIBRARIES=1 DYLD_PRINT_LIBRARIES_POST_LAUNCH=1 convert ... to debug dynamic link libraries. Finally, resort to homebrew ;-) – Pervade

@MarkSetchell you just solved the error! Thank man. – Persecute

Pleasure! Feel free to write up the bit that helped and put it as an answer for all to see. Good luck with your project! – Pervade

Answer 1

As suggested by @Mark Setchell, the solution was to replace ~ by $HOME. Therefore, the export commands should be:

export MAGICK_HOME="$HOME/Documents/software/ImageMagick-7.0.7"
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="$MAGICK_HOME/lib/"
export PATH="$MAGICK_HOME/bin:$PATH"

Persecute

Answer 2

For those who do not use brew, using otool -L shows the problem:

    /ImageMagick-7.0.10/lib/libMagickCore-7.Q16HDRI.8.dylib (compatibility version 9.0.0, current version 9.0.0)
    /ImageMagick-7.0.10/lib/libMagickWand-7.Q16HDRI.8.dylib (compatibility version 9.0.0, current version 9.0.0)
    /opt/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib (compatibility version 19.0.0, current version 19.6.0)
    /opt/X11/lib/libpng16.16.dylib (compatibility version 43.0.0, current version 43.0.0)
    /opt/X11/lib/libXext.6.dylib (compatibility version 11.0.0, current version 11.0.0)
    /opt/X11/lib/libXt.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)
    /usr/lib/libbz2.1.0.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.5)
    /usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 904.4.0)
    /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)
    /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1292.0.0)
    /opt/X11/lib/libSM.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.1.0)
    /opt/X11/lib/libICE.6.dylib (compatibility version 10.0.0, current version 10.0.0)
    /opt/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib (compatibility version 10.0.0, current version 10.0.0)

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