ImagMagic on OS-X Snow Leopard 10.6.1

I was having the nagging error about the GD Library for my drupal sites.

I have searched through the drupal site and did not see a comprehensive set of instructions.

I decided to use the macports version of apache2 and php5 for my web site. I found excellent instructions at the following URL:

http://blog.ryanparman.com/2009/07/11/installing-php-5-3-with-mysqlnd-on...

You may need to fiddle with stuff a bit. Especially if you are hosting multiple sites but the steps above are nice because the end result allows you to stop/start the web server using the System Preferences panel, etc.

Once I had the apache2 and php5 running I did the following commands:

sudo port install php5-mysql
sudo port install ImageMagick
sudo port install php5-imagick
sudo port install php5-mbstring
sudo port install php5-gd

Once I installed the above items I no longer received the nagging status report about the GD Libraries!

I may not even use them... At least they are there!