# ImageMagick – Advanced Windows Source Installation
ImageMagick is a powerful, open-source software suite for creating, editing, converting, and manipulating images in over 200 formats. Ideal for web developers, graphic designers, and researchers, it offers versatile tools for image processing, including batch processing, format conversion, and complex image transformations.
Keywords: Advanced Windows Source Installation, Image Processing, Digital Image Editing, Image Conversion, Open-Source Software, Image Manipulation, Command-Line Image Tools

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 version 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 where 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 `Output\bin` folder.