Running ImageMagick on XAMPP 1.8.3 with Windows 7

Question

I have been trying for hours to get ImageMagick working on my localhost (running XAMPP 1.8.3 on Windows 7). I have checked and tried literally every solution that I can find on this website, and dozens of others. Nothing works. No matter what combination of ImageMagick builds and imagick DLLs I try, I always get some kind of "can't find dll" error when I try to start Apache (the specific message varies based on what combination I'm trying, but it's always some sort of missing DLL message). Can anyone just give me a (moderately recent) combination of XAMPP/ImageMagick/Imagick that works?

Answer 1

OK. I finally found a combination that works. After MUCH trial and error, I was finally able to get the below combination to work on my machine. Hopefully it works for anyone else who might be struggling with this.

• OS: Windows 7 64 Bit
• PHP: 5.5.6
• XAMPP: 1.8.3
  • Compiler: MSVC11
  • Architecture: x86
• ImageMagick: ImageMagick-6.7.7-5-Q16-windows-dll (available here)
• Imagick DLL: PHP5.5.x version from http://www.peewit.fr/imagick/

Note: Once I tried this, Apache started without any error messages. I did not have to restart my computer (just restarted Apache). I do have ImageMagick installed in a directory that has no spaces in the name (as some have suggested that might be a problem with some installs). In my case, I installed it to c:\xampp\imagemagick.

Best of luck to you!