Having problems getting a pecl extension to work (VIPS)

[rikh42]

I'm trying to get the vips extension working Herd on PHP 8.3.

At the moment, the closest I have got results in the following error when trying to create one of the vips objects...

local.INFO: Unable to open library 'libvips.42.dylib' in any of ['/opt/homebrew/lib/', '/usr/local/lib/']. Make sure that you've installed libvips and that 'libvips.42.dylib' is on your system's library search path.

Ironically, libvips.42.dylib is indeed in the /opt/homebrew/lib/ path, so there must be something about it does not like.

I followed the herd guide and additionally installed php with brew (brew install php) which installed 8.3 also. Then brew install vips to get libvips installed and pecl install vips to compile and set up vips.so for the extension. I then added extension=/path/to/vips.so to the herd php.ini and restarted everything.

php -v produces no problems on the command line
php -i shows that vips is installed and it's configuration listed

Can anyone suggest possible reasons it is not loading. Could it be that I have an intel install of vips from brew install vips on my m2 mac? If so, how do I work around that?

Thanks in advance...