If you need PerlMagick on a Mac, there was (and still is) a p5-perlmagick package. If you try to install that package now, you’ll find it doesn’t compile (!!). You don’t have to resort to compiling from source, though.

According to this MacPorts ticket, p5-perlmagick has been deprecated in favor of recompiling the imagemagick port with the +perl variant:

sudo port -nu uninstall p5-perlmagick imagemagick
sudo port clean imagemagick
sudo port install imagemagick +perl

Before you just add the perl variant, though, you might want these other goodies:

$ port variants imagemagick
ImageMagick has the variants:
   graphviz: Support Graphviz
   gs: Include Ghostscript library support
   hdri: Support High Dynamic Range Imaging using OpenEXR
   jbig: Support JBIG
   jpeg2: Support JPEG-2000 using JasPer
   lcms: Support the Little Color Management System
   lqr: Support Liquid Rescale (experimental)
   mpeg: Support MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video
   no_plus_plus: Do not install Magick++
   no_x11: Disable support for X11
   perl: Install PerlMagick
[+]q16: Use 16 bits per pixel quantum
     * conflicts with q32 q8
   q32: Use 32 bits per pixel quantum
     * conflicts with q16 q8
   q8: Use 8 bits per pixel quantum
     * conflicts with q16 q32
   rsvg: Support SVG using librsvg
   universal: Build for multiple architectures
   wmf: Support the Windows Metafile Format

To make it easier for search engines to find this, here’s the compilation failure:

$ sudo port install p5-perlmagick
Password:
--->  Computing dependencies for p5-perlmagick
--->  Fetching p5-perlmagick
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for p5-perlmagick
--->  Extracting p5-perlmagick
--->  Configuring p5-perlmagick
--->  Building p5-perlmagick
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_perl_p5-perlmagick/work/PerlMagick-6.32" && /usr/bin/make -j2 all " returned error 2
Command output: Magick.xs:10918: error: request for member 'severity' in something not a structure or union
Magick.xs:10918: error: 'ErrorException' undeclared (first use in this function)
Magick.xs:10919: error: 'struct Methods' has no member named 'exception'
Magick.xs:10920: warning: implicit declaration of function 'GetImageException'
Magick.xs:10922: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
Magick.xs:10922: error: request for member 'image_info' in something not a structure or union
Magick.xs:10922: error: 'struct Methods' has no member named 'adjoin'
Magick.xs:10929: error: request for member 'severity' in something not a structure or union
Magick.xs:10929: error: 'UndefinedException' undeclared (first use in this function)
Magick.xs:10929: error: request for member 'severity' in something not a structure or union
Magick.xs:10929: error: request for member 'reason' in something not a structure or union
Magick.xs:10929: error: request for member 'severity' in something not a structure or union
Magick.xs:10929: error: request for member 'reason' in something not a structure or union
Magick.xs:10929: warning: pointer/integer type mismatch in conditional expression
Magick.xs:10929: error: request for member 'description' in something not a structure or union
Magick.xs:10929: error: request for member 'description' in something not a structure or union
Magick.xs:10929: error: request for member 'severity' in something not a structure or union
Magick.xs:10929: error: request for member 'description' in something not a structure or union
Magick.xs:10929: warning: pointer/integer type mismatch in conditional expression
Magick.xs:10929: error: request for member 'description' in something not a structure or union
Magick.xs:10929: warning: passing argument 2 of 'Perl_sv_catpv' from incompatible pointer type
Magick.xs:10929: warning: unused variable 'message'
Magick.xs:10856: warning: unused variable 'filename'
Magick.c:10784: warning: unused variable 'ref'
Magick.c:10777: warning: unused variable 'ix'
Magick.xs: In function 'boot_Image__Magick':
Magick.xs:2122: warning: implicit declaration of function 'InitializeMagick'
Magick.xs:2123: warning: implicit declaration of function 'SetWarningHandler'
Magick.xs:2124: warning: implicit declaration of function 'SetErrorHandler'
make: *** [Magick.o] Error 1

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

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