Building ImageMagick from Source with HEIF, WebP, and Modern Codecs on macOS

imagemagick-build-script-for-macos.md

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# ============================================================
# ImageMagick Build Script (macOS / source-based installation)
# ============================================================
# This script builds ImageMagick from source with support for
# HEIF, WebP, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, FreeType, and more.
# All libraries are installed into a custom isolated directory.
# ============================================================

brew install cmake pkg-config

mkdir -p $HOME/Applications/imagemagick_sources
mkdir -p $HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library

# === nasm === #
# SIMD CPU Optimization
cd $HOME/Applications/imagemagick_sources
curl https://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/3.01/nasm-3.01.tar.gz -o nasm.tar.gz
mkdir -p nasm && tar -zxvf nasm.tar.gz -C ./nasm --strip-components=1 && rm nasm.tar.gz
cd nasm
./configure --prefix="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library"
make && make install

export PATH="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library/bin:$PATH"


# === libpng === #
cd $HOME/Applications/imagemagick_sources
git clone --branch 'v1.6.50' --depth 1 --single-branch https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng.git
cd libpng
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../
make && make install


# === libjpeg-turbo === #
cd $HOME/Applications/imagemagick_sources
git clone --branch '3.1.2' --depth 1 --single-branch https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo.git
cd libjpeg-turbo
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DWITH_JPEG8=ON -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../
make && make install


# === libwebp === #
cd $HOME/Applications/imagemagick_sources
git clone --branch 'v1.6.0' --depth 1 --single-branch https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libwebp
cd libwebp
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../
make && make install


# === libtiff === #
cd $HOME/Applications/imagemagick_sources
git clone --branch 'v4.7.1' --depth 1 --single-branch https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff.git
cd libtiff/build
cmake -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library" -Dwebp=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../
make && make install


# === freetype === #
cd $HOME/Applications/imagemagick_sources
git clone --branch 'VER-2-14-1' --depth 1 --single-branch https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype.git
cd freetype
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../
make && make install


# === djvulibre === #
cd $HOME/Applications/imagemagick_sources
curl -L http://downloads.sourceforge.net/djvu/djvulibre-3.5.29.tar.gz -o djvulibre.tar.gz
mkdir -p djvulibre && tar -zxvf djvulibre.tar.gz -C ./djvulibre --strip-components=1 && rm djvulibre.tar.gz
cd djvulibre
CPPFLAGS="-I$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library/include" LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library/lib" ./configure --prefix="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library"
make && make install


# === libSDL2 === #
# Required when building libde265
cd $HOME/Applications/imagemagick_sources
git clone --branch 'release-2.32.10' --depth 1 --single-branch https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL.git
cd SDL
mkdir build && cd build
CPPFLAGS="-I$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library/include" LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library/lib" ../configure --prefix="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library"
make && make install


# === libde265 === #
# HEVC decoder for HEIF
cd $HOME/Applications/imagemagick_sources
git clone --branch 'v1.0.16' --depth 1 --single-branch https://github.com/strukturag/libde265.git
cd libde265
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../
make && make install


# === x265 === #
# HEVC encoder for HEIF
cd $HOME/Applications/imagemagick_sources
git clone --branch 'master' --depth 1 --single-branch https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265_git.git x265
cd x265/build/xcode
cmake -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library" ../../source
make && make install


# === libaom === #
# AV1 codec support for HEIF
# Adjust AOM_TARGET_CPU according to your architecture (x86_64 for Intel, arm64 for Silicon).
cd $HOME/Applications/imagemagick_sources
git clone --branch 'v3.13.1' --depth 1 --single-branch https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom
cd aom/build
cmake -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library" ../ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DAOM_TARGET_CPU=x86_64
make && make install


# === libheif === #
cd $HOME/Applications/imagemagick_sources
git clone --branch 'v1.20.2' --depth 1 --single-branch https://github.com/strukturag/libheif.git
cd libheif
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library" \
      -DLIBSHARPYUV_INCLUDE_DIR="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library/include/webp" \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library" \
      -DWITH_EXAMPLES=OFF ../
make && make install


# === ImageMagick === #
cd $HOME/Applications/imagemagick_sources
curl -L https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/archive/refs/tags/7.1.2-8.tar.gz -o 7.1.2-8.tar.gz
tar -zxvf 7.1.2-8.tar.gz
cd ImageMagick-7.1.2-8
CPPFLAGS="-I$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library/include" \
LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library/lib" \
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library/lib/pkgconfig" \
./configure --prefix="$HOME/Applications/ImageMagick-NoTRD-V7.1.2-8" \
            --without-threads \
            --disable-shared \
            --enable-delegate-build
make && make install

# Add library path to the executable
install_name_tool -add_rpath $HOME/Applications/imagemagick_library/lib \
$HOME/Applications/ImageMagick-NoTRD-V7.1.2-8/bin/magick