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A gist is a breadcrumb for a weary traveller looking for how to install magicffi (libmagic) on mac os x silicon mac
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This fixes a magic.h not found !
brew reinstall libmagic pkgconf
export CPPFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix)/include $CPPFLAGS"
export LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix)/lib $LDFLAGS"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$(brew --prefix)/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
then run your lisp, and install
(ql:quickload :magicffi)
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truedat101 commented Feb 14, 2026

Noting, this was useful when trying to build the obscure library called ingle (which is one letter off from ningle)

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