Building ImageMagick on RHEL/CentOS 6 with Perl 5.18.1
By Jon Jensen
December 23, 2013
This is a quick tip for anyone in the exact same situation I was recently, and everyone else can probably just skip it!
RHEL 6 and CentOS 6 and other derivatives come with ImageMagick-6.5.4.7-6.el6_2.x86_64, which is a bit dated but still reasonable. They also come with Perl 5.10.1, which has grown very old. We wanted to use the latest version of Perl (5.18.1) with plenv, but the latest version of the Perl libraries for ImageMagick (PerlMagick) does not work with the older ImageMagick 6.5.4.7.
The first task, then, was to locate the matching older version of PerlMagick from BackPAN, the archive of historical CPAN modules: http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/J/JC/JCRISTY/PerlMagick-6.54.tar.gz, and try to build that.
However, that fails to build without applying a patch to make it compatible with newer versions of Perl. The patch is available from http://trac.imagemagick.org/changeset?format=diff&new=4950, or you can just create a file called typemap in the root of the unpacked directory, with one line:
Image::Magick T_PTROBJ
Then build, test, and install as usual. That’s it.
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