It seems that I have more trouble getting standard Unix things to run on Snow Leopard than any other platform--including Windows cygwin

For the past couple of days, I've been trying to get ImageMagick to run on Snow Leopard.

The most obvious way, Mac Ports, fails:

tppllc-Mac-Pro:ImageMagick-sl swirsky$ sudo port install imagemagick
--->  Computing dependencies for p5-locale-gettext
--->  Configuring p5-locale-gettext
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_perl_p5-locale-gettext/work/gettext-1.05" && /opt/local/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor " returned error 2
Command output: checking for gettext... no
checking for gettext in -I/opt/local/include -arch i386 -L/opt/local/lib -lintl...gettext function not found. Please install libintl at Makefile.PL line 18.
 no

Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
Error: Unable to execute port: upgrade xorg-libXt failed
Before reporting a bug, first run the command again with the -d flag to get complete output.
tppllc-Mac-Pro:ImageMagick-sl swirsky$ 

Not wanting to spend another two days figuring out why my libintl doesn't have a "gettext" function, I tried a different route: the script mentioned here: http://github.com/masterkain/ImageMagick-sl

This script downloads and installs an ImageMagic independently of MacPorts issues

tppllc-Mac-Pro:ImageMagick-sl swirsky$ /usr/local/bin/convert
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib
  Referenced from: /opt/local/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib
  Reason: Incompatible library version: libfontconfig.1.dylib requires version 8.0.0 or later, but libiconv.2.dylib provides version 7.0.0
Trace/BPT trap

It downloads everything and compiles fine, but fails when I try to run it, with the message above.

So now I'm two steps away from ImageMagick, trying to get a newer libiconv on my machine.

I downloaded the latest libiconv, compiled and built it. I put the resulting library in /opt/local/lib, and I still get the same error message:

tppllc-Mac-Pro:.libs swirsky$ sudo mv libiconv.2.dylib /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib
tppllc-Mac-Pro:.libs swirsky$ convert
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib
  Referenced from: /opt/local/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib
  Reason: Incompatible library version: libfontconfig.1.dylib requires version 8.0.0 or later, but libiconv.2.dylib provides version 7.0.0
Trace/BPT trap

Now here's something interesting. The error message shows it's looking in /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib.

otools -L shows that this does implement 8.0.0:

tppllc-Mac-Pro:.libs swirsky$ otool -L /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib:
    /usr/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 8.0.0, current version 8.0.0)
    /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 125.0.0)
tppllc-Mac-Pro:.libs swirsky$ 

And, for good measure, I set the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to make sure this directory is the one for dynamic libraries.

So even though I do have a library that provides 8.0.0, it's being seen as 7.0.0! Any ideas why this would happen?

So here's my question: Is it possible to get ImageMagick to run on OSX Snow Leopard? Are there any binary distributions that have static libraries baked in so I don't have to worry about these issue/