Building ImageMagick on Windows.

This document describes the requirements and instructions to build ImageMagick for Windows on your own machine.

Requirements

• Visual Studio 2017 (or newer)
• Git for Windows
• AMD APP SDK (optional for OpenCL support)

Install Visual Studio dependencies

To build ImageMagick with Visual Studio the following components should be installed:

• Desktop development with C++ (workload)
• Visual C++ ATL for x86 and x64
• Visual C++ MFC for x86 and x64
• Windows XP support for C++ (optional if the output needs to run on Windows XP)

Naming of these components might differ between versions of Visual Studio. The example above use the Visual Studio 2017 names.

Clone the dependencies

The ImageMagick library is built with a number of third party libraries. Run CloneRepositories.IM7.cmd to clone these libraries and the ImageMagick library. To clone the legacy ImageMagick 6 library and it's dependencies run CloneRepositories.IM6.cmd.

Build Configure.exe

One of the folders in this project is called Configure. This folder contains the solution file Configure.sln for the latest 2022 version of Visual Studio, and Configure.2017.sln for older versions. Open one of those and start a Release build of the project. This will create a file called Configure.exe in the folder. Running this program will start a Wizard that allows configuration of ImageMagick and its individual components.

Build ImageMagick

Depending on which options were chosen when running Configure.exe one of the following solutions will be created in the root of the repository:

• IM7.Dynamic.sln (Dynamic Multi-threaded DLL runtimes)
• IM7.StaticDLL.sln (Static Multi-threaded DLL runtimes)
• IM7.Static.sln (Static Multi-threaded runtimes)

Open the solution to start building ImageMagick. The binaries will be created in the Artifacts\bin folder.