I want to preface this question with the fact that

My task was this: view an image in a browser, click on something in the image, have perl run an ImageMagick command to modify the image.

It's not a great setup, but it's worked for me before. The problem is that I'm doing it on an M2 Mac.

This is basically it:

my $command = "/opt/local/bin/convert foo.jpg -crop ${w}x$h+$x+$x ./cr
+opped/foo.jpg";
my $result = `$command`;
say qq|{"result":"$result"}|;

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So on my M2 mac, I get 6 as the result, and the convert doesn't work.

I solved the problem by just implementing it on an older Mac.

But what's going on here? My Apache is the XAMPP one: 

Server version: Apache/2.4.56 (Unix)
Server built:   Oct 28 2023 12:23:23
Server's Module Magic Number: 20120211:126
Server loaded:  APR 1.5.2, APR-UTIL 1.5.4, PCRE 8.44 2020-02-12
Compiled using: APR 1.5.2, APR-UTIL 1.5.4, PCRE 8.44 2020-02-12
Architecture:   64-bit
Server MPM:     prefork
  threaded:     no
    forked:     yes (variable process count)
Server compiled with....
 -D APR_HAS_SENDFILE
 -D APR_HAS_MMAP
 -D APR_HAVE_IPV6 (IPv4-mapped addresses enabled)
 -D APR_USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZE
 -D APR_USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZE
 -D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
 -D APR_HAS_OTHER_CHILD
 -D AP_HAVE_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS
 -D DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT=256
 -D HTTPD_ROOT="/usr"
 -D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/bin/suexec"
 -D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="/private/var/run/httpd.pid"
 -D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/apache_runtime_status"
 -D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log"
 -D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="/private/etc/apache2/mime.types"
 -D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="/private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf"

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My perl is:

  Platform:
    osname=darwin
    osvers=22.0
    archname=darwin-thread-multi-2level
    uname='darwin 5bxbb.p1s.plx.sd.apple.com 22.0 darwin kernel versio
+n 22.1.0: thu dec 15 17:42:24 pst 2022; root:xnu-8792.41.9.100.2~1dev
+elopment_x86_64 x86_64 '
    config_args='-ds -e -Dprefix=/usr -Dccflags=-g  -pipe  -Dldflags= 
+-Dman3ext=3pm -Duseithreads -Duseshrplib -Dinc_version_list=none -Dcc
+=cc'

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My ImageMagick is:

Version: ImageMagick 6.9.11-60 Q16 x86_64 2021-01-25 https://imagemagi
+ck.org

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So, for some reason, that combination doesn't work and the system returns 6 which seems to mean "no such binary"?

Help me understand what's going on here Monks, and how I can resolve things like this in the future without having to return to an older Mac system?

In reply to Perl on M2 Mac issues: somewhere between Perl, Apache and ImageMagick my code fails by LittleJack

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