This document describes the requirements and instructions to build ImageMagick for Windows on your own machine.
- Visual Studio (preferably the latest version)
- Git for Windows
- AMD APP SDK (optional for OpenCL support)
To build ImageMagick with Visual Studio the following components should be installed:
- Desktop development with C++ (workload)
- Visual C++ ATL build tools
- Visual C++ MFC build tools
Naming of these components might differ between versions of Visual Studio.
The ImageMagick library is built with a number of third party libraries. Run clone-repositories-im7.cmd to clone
these libraries and the ImageMagick library. To clone the legacy ImageMagick 6 library and it's dependencies
run clone-repositories-im6.cmd.
One of the folders in this project is called Configure. This folder contains the solution file Configure.sln that
is compatible with the latest version of Visual Studio. Open this solution file in Visual Studio and build the
Configure project. This will create the Configure executable in the Configure/Artifacts folder. Running this
program will start a Wizard that allows configuration of ImageMagick and its individual components.
Depending on which options were chosen when running Configure a solution file will be created in the root folder of
this project. Open this solution file in Visual Studio to start building ImageMagick. The binaries and libraries will be
created in the Artifacts folder.