1This document describes the requirements and instructions to build ImageMagick
2for Windows on your own machine.
3
4Requirements
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6  o Visual Studio 2013 (or newer)
7  o Git for Windows
8  o AMD APP SDK (optional
9  for OpenCL support)
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11Install Visual Studio dependencies
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13To build ImageMagick with Visual Studio the following components should
14be installed:
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16  o Desktop development with C++ (workload)
17  o Visual C++ ATL for x86 and x64
18  o Visual C++ MFC for x86 and x64
19  o Windows XP support for C++ (optional if the output needs to run on Windows
20    XP)
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22Naming of these components might differ between version of Visual Studio. The
23example above use the Visual Studio 2017 names.
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25Clone the dependencies
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27The ImageMagick library is build with a number of third party libraries. Run
28CloneRepositories.cmd to clone these libraries and the ImageMagick library.
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30Build configure.exe
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32One of the folders that was created in the previous step is called VisualMagick
33and this folder contains a folder called configure. This folder contains a
34solution configure.sln. Open this solution with Visual Studio and start a
35Release build of the project. This will create a file called configure.exe in
36the folder. Running this program will start a Wizard that allows configuration
37of ImageMagick and its individual components.
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39Build ImageMagick
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41Depending on which options where chosen when running configure.exe one of
42the following solutions will be created in the VisualMagick folder:
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44  o VisualDynamicMT.sln (Dynamic Multi-threaded DLL runtimes)
45  o VisualStaticMTD.sln (Static Multi-threaded DLL runtimes)
46  o VisualStaticMT.sln (Static Multi-threaded runtimes)
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48Open the solution to start building ImageMagick. The binaries will be created
49in the VisualMagick\bin folder.
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