Trouble with the magick rock

[benlubas]

I'm on MacOS on apple silicon (unsure if that's relevant)

I've installed the magick rock with luarocks --local --lua-version 5.1 install magick

I added

package.path = package.path .. ";" .. vim.fn.expand("$HOME") .. "/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/?/init.lua;"
package.path = package.path .. ";" .. vim.fn.expand("$HOME") .. "/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/?.lua;"

to my nvim/init.lua file, and I've checked that the magick folder exists at ~/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/magick

However, I don't have anything other than the magick/ folder in the ~/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/ directory. This concerns me b/c it seems from the package.path code above that there should be a lua file there (but I have no idea).

I have ImageMagic via brew, the which magick => /opt/homebrew/bin/magick

Despite all of this, I still get this error when I launch nvim:

Error detected while processing /Users/benlubas/github/.dotfiles/nvim/init.lua:
image.nvim: magick rock not found, please install it and restart your editor

I've also tried with both nvim 9.2, and the latest nightly. same error.
I've also tried the minimial-setup.lua file in this repo.

[benlubas]

I have this working on PopOS. So must be a missing dependency on the Mac side.

[3rd]

I think it's ok, the files should only be in ~/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/magick.
I'm not sure what's happening on mac, can you try to load the magick rock in Lua outside of Neovim?

[benlubas]

This works when I just run it with luajit:

package.path = package.path .. ";" .. "/Users/benlubas/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/?/init.lua"
package.path = package.path .. ";" .. "/Users/benlubas/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/?.lua"

local ok, err = pcall(require, "magick")

if ok then
  print("that worked")
else
  print("that failed")
end

[benlubas]

after looking at this more, the real error is .luarocks/share/lua/5.1/magick/wand/lib.lua:220: Failed to load ImageMagick (MagickWand)

Which is still only happening in NeoVim. I don't get that when I run the thing with luajit

[benlubas]

Problem is definitely something do with homebrew installing it somewhere unexpected.

[benlubas]

Edit: using this solution might break when homebrew updates/moves things around. For a more permanent fix, see solutions at the bottom of the thread

So the exact command that someone else might run to fix it might vary. But this is the one that I used:

sudo ln -sv /opt/homebrew/Cellar/imagemagick/7.1.1-15_1/lib/libMagickWand-7.Q16HDRI.dylib /usr/local/lib/libMagickWand-7.Q16HDRI.dylib

You just need to link the libMagick dylib file that your neovim is looking for to a spot nvim can find it.
The way that I found this file was by going into the magick rock and adding some print statements.

I hope that helps someone in the future.

[jmbuhr]

Hi @benlubas, since you mentioned having this working on pop-os, which I'm also running, may I ask if there where any major steps to make it work?
I can't see to get this to work. The individual pieces should be in place. The kitty image kitten displays images, the imagemagick luarock is found and image.nvim successfully uses it to create a cropped version of the image in the /tmp folder, from which it can indeed be displayed manually outside of nvim with the image kitten, but image.nvim doesn't show anything.

PS: I'm excited about what you are doing with molten-nvim! Looks like it will complement quarto-nvim immensly! Asking if you can show code results and plots directly under the cells is probably the question I get the most.

[benlubas]

It sounds like you have the dependencies all setup, so I wouldn't worry about that.

what does your config look like, and what file are you opening to try to see an image?

@jmbuhr

PS: You can send those people to Molten starting in a day or two. I just finished up a PR that makes the last set of breaking changes that I wanted to make, going to merge it after a day or two of driving it to make sure I didn't break the whole thing :P

[jmbuhr]

I tried it as part of my quarto-nvim-kickstarter config and with the minimal setup: https://github.com/3rd/image.nvim?tab=readme-ov-file#try-it-out-with-a-minimal-setup

[benlubas]

Did you add the quarto file type to the file type list for the markdown integration if you're opening a quarto document. Because that's not a supported file type out of the box with the minimal config.

[3rd]

Should we enable it by default?

[benlubas]

Eh, I'm more in favor of just letting people know they can enable it so it's clear that they can add any filetype that uses the markdown parser, not just the ones that we list.

But I that's not a strong opinion

[jmbuhr]

I did, but the minimal example is plain markdown anyways.

[benlubas]

I guess one other quick thing to check, sometimes I have to make an edit to the file to get an image to show up in markdown. Like pressing o<esc> above the image, just to move the image link down a line.