step-by-step instructions for installing IMAGEMAGICK on WAMP?

Question

There don't seem to be any concise tutorials/walk throughs for installing ImageMagick on WAMP for use with PHP.

I've tried dozens of combinations of their binary releases with different php extension dll files. I can get imagemagick working fine from the command line, and I can get it to show as ticked in the WAMP extensions, but can't actually use it.

Has anyone come across a good guide for installing this ball ache piece of software?

I've followed http://www.knowledge-transfers.com/it/installing-imagemagick-on-windows-setup-imagick-on-php with no luck...

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Update: this is what happens when I follow the steps in PHP farmer's answer on windows7. My php.ini is setup as follows:

extension_dir = "c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.3.0/ext/"  extension=php_imagick.dll 

I reboot and get these two errors in this order

and here is the dll file where it should be:

Answer 1

I know this is old post but I spend my all day to make it work, so here are the steps that helped me:

1. Download ImageMagick Binary Release - http://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php
2. Install in C:\imagemagick, on last step check "Add application directory to your system path"
3. Download Imagick DLL: PHP5.6.x version from http://www.peewit.fr/imagick/ (I have 5.6+ version installed on my localhost
4. Copy php_imagick.dll to C:\wamp\bin\php\ext
5. Download PHP 5.6 Thread Safe (TS) x86 version from http://pecl.php.net/package/imagick/3.1.2/windows
6. Copy CORE_RL_* files to C:\wamp\bin\apache\bin\
7. Edit php.ini file in C:\wamp\bin\apache\bin\php.ini, add extension=php_imagick.dll line in extensions section
8. Copy all files from C:\imagemagick\modules\coders and C:\imagemagick\modules\filters to C:\imagemagick to load ImageMagick supported formats
9. Go to Control Panel -> System -> Advanced Settings -> Environment Variables -> New System Variable -> MAGICK_HOME = C:\imagemagick
10. Restart Wamp server and check phpinfo() for imagick plugin
11. If last step does not work, restart Windows

Answer 2

I have improved fsasvari answer to cater general scenarios and versions. All credits to him.

Install Imagick in WAMP

1. Open your phpinfo() page

2. Check the below
   PHP version (mine : 5.5.12)
   Compiler (mine : MSVC11 (Visual C++ 2012) )
   Architecture : (mine : x64)
   Thread Safety : enabled
   Loaded Configuration File (mine : C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\bin\php.ini)
   extension_dir : (mine : c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.5.12/ext/)
   Apache Bin (Not in phpinfo() page) : C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\bin\

3. Get the latest release match to your architecture from here (for me it was ImageMagick-x86_64-pc-windows.exe).

4. Copy all files from C:\imagemagick\modules\coders and C:\imagemagick\modules\filters to C:\imagemagick to load ImageMagick supported formats

5. Install in C:\imagemagick, on last step check "Add application directory to your system path"

6. Download the PECL matching to your architecture http://pecl.php.net/package/imagick/3.1.2/windows (for me : 5.5 Thread Safe (TS) x64)

7. Extract it and copy all the CORE_RL_* files to apache bin folder (mine : C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\bin)

8. Copy php_imagick.* files to extension dir (mine : c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.5.12/ext/)

9. Edit php.ini file (mine : C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\bin\php.ini)
   add extension=php_imagick.dll line in extensions section

10. Go to Control Panel -> System -> Advanced Settings -> Environment Variables -> New System Variable -> MAGICK_HOME = C:\imagemagick

11. Restart Wamp server and check phpinfo() for imagick plugin

12. If last step does not work, restart Windows (Specially if you have previously installed imagemagick in different folder/version)