How can I install GraphicsMagick or ImageMagick on AWS Lambda?

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I spun up the latest aws linux and ran the commands below. 

yum -y install gcc-c++ libpng-devel libjpeg-devel libtiff-devel wget
wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/graphicsmagick/graphicsmagick/1.3.26/GraphicsMagick-1.3.26.tar.gz
tar zxvf GraphicsMagick-1.3.26.tar.gz
cd GraphicsMagick-1.3.26
./configure --prefix=/var/task/graphicsmagick --enable-shared=no --enable-static=yes
make
sudo make install
tar zcvf ~/graphicsmagick.tgz /var/task/graphicsmagick/

I scp the dir down into my local and threw it in the package to be zipped and deployed. My layout is similar to the aws repo code linked, but modified for serverless.

Lambda code:

// graphicsmagick dir is at the root of my project
const BIN_PATH = process.env['LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT'] + "/graphicsmagick/bin/";
const Gm = require('gm').subClass({ appPath: BIN_PATH });

// below is inside the handler
process.env['PATH'] = process.env['PATH'] + ':' + BIN_PATH;

serverless.yml

package:
  artifact: /path/to/function.zip

I use the artifact and build my own zip. If you run into the issue below I suggest you do that.
https://github.com/serverless/serverless/issues/3215

# -y to keep the symlinks and thus reduce the size from 266M to 73M
cd lambda && zip -FS -q -r -y ../dist/function.zip *

Ideas grabbed from:

https://gist.github.com/bensie/56f51bc33d4a55e2fc9a

https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-image-resizing

Edit:
Might want to also check out lambda layers. May only need to do this kind of thing once.

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