How to install ImageMagick for WAMP 2.5

Question

WAMP does not come with ImageMagick PHP extension installed, how do I install it manually? All the tutorials I have found seem outdated and too confusing.

Solution

I got ImageMagick to work on WAMP 2.5 on Windows 8.1 . Here's what I did.

1. Download the latest ImageMagick here: http://imagemagick.org/script/download.php#windows

2. Install it here (It should be ticked by default, but make sure you tick the "Add application directory to your system path" when installing): C:\imagemagick

3. Go to the latest folder created and download the latest zip file from here (with x64 or x86 matching your ImageMagick install file): http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/releases/imagick/

4. Extract the php_imagick.dll from that file to here: C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.5.12\ext\

5. Open php.ini file in text editor from here C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\bin\

6. Search for commented line "Windows Extensions" and under the extensions list (for me the last one is extension=php_pdo_sqlite.dll) add: extension=php_imagick.dll

Then RESTART your computer and ImageMagick should work, it did for me at least.

Comments

[Artem Russakovskii]

if you're having trouble activating Imagemagick on Windows and installed Imagemagick 7.0, here's what worked for me: stackoverflow.com/a/37927537/47680.

[Robert Schwindaman]

FYI for anyone reading this in 2019, latest versions of downloads still work. Additionally, I only needed to "quit" WAMP in order to have Imagick become available after the installation steps, no computer restart required.

[Gabe Hiemstra]

Note that for me only the TS (thread safe) would work. The NTS would not work.