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Asked: 2026-05-12T06:59:15+00:00

I’m trying to install a piece of software ( moddims ) that depends on

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I’m trying to install a piece of software (moddims) that depends on “Imagemagick 6.3.9+” – I tried installing the latest version of ImageMagick (6.5.4-5) but got the following error when I tried to “make” moddims:

mod_dims_ops.c: In function ‘dims_smart_crop_operation’:
mod_dims_ops.c:34: error: too few arguments to function ‘ParseGravityGeometry’

Presumably the function signature changed somewhere between ImageMagick 6.3.9 and the current version.

I’d like to try installing moddims against the older version of ImageMagick – but I want to install ImageMagick 6.3.9 without interfering with the already-installed 6.5.4-5 version.

What ./configure incantations can I use to a) install the older version of ImageMagick in such a way that it won’t over-write or otherwise interfere with my modern version and b) compile moddims to use that older version?

I’m on OSX, but I anticipate having the same problem for when I later need to install moddims on a Linux production server.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Clearly, you have to obtain, compile and install the older version of ImageMagick.

    Faced with this problem – especially since it is at an experimental phase (you don’t know for sure you want to keep this version of ImageMagick around) – I would:

    • Create a new directory to install ImageMagick:

      /opt/ImageMagick

    • Configure ImageMagick 6.3.9 to install in there – probably:

      ./configure --prefix=/opt/ImageMagick

    • Build, test, and install it.

    • Configure moddims to look in the ImageMagick location before standard places:

      export LDFLAGS=-L/opt/ImageMagick/lib
export CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/ImageMagick/include
./configure ....

    • Check that the produced moddims code uses your preferred libraries:

      otool -L ...moddims-progam-or-library...    # MacOS X
ldd ...moddims-program-or-library...        # Linux, etc.

    The first check will be “does moddims compile when configured”; if it doesn’t, you are probably using the ‘standard’ version of the moddims header file despite this attempt to avoid doing so.

    There might also be configure options to specify where the ImageMagick library should be pulled from – check with ‘./configure --help‘ (and/or ‘grep -i image configure‘).

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