I got mine going with XAMPP and Windows 7. There are older VC9 versions of XAMPP available on sourceforge, I used 1.7.7 which is available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/1.7.7/
Specifically I downloaded xampp-win32-1.7.7-VC9-installer.exe, which is thread-safe.

For ImageMagick I used ImageMagick-6.6.3-4-Q16-windows-dll.exe from http://image_magick.veidrodis.com/image_magick/binaries/

For the extension I used ’2011-04-25 18:49 – php_imagick_ts.dll’ from
http://valokuva.org/builds/

I also installed ghostscript and it’s working fine as well.

Again, thanks for your write-up!

Thanks for the update. I wasn’t aware of that issue as I’m running ImageMagick 6.6.3-4. It’s good to know about that problem before I try to upgrade though. Looks like the whole depressing cycle of which build to use is starting all over again!

Thanks again,

Jeremy.

sorry… I made an error. It is of course ImageMagic >6.6.4 that will not work.

bye

Thanks for your tutorial. I just wanted to advise something to anyone during the install of ImageMagic > 6.4.X

It doesn’t work. For anyone wanting to follow your guide, please take notice of Chris comment at http://valokuva.org/?p=161#comment-20707.

Install a former version of Imagemagick will only work.

In my case Apache completly crashed and restarted. With ImageMagick 6.3.9 everything went fine.

Thanks!

Luis

I’m not totally sure what could be causing your issues as WordPress seems to have mangled most of your code examples. I did run into a few issues when I was testing out Imagick that led to errors like the one you mention (as far as I can remember). There were two problems from what I remember. The first was that some of the Imagick methods I was using (which were from a tutorial) were deprecated. This normally wouldn’t be a problem but as this is my development box I have error reporting turned up to E_ALL and display errors turned on. As a result PHP was dumping error message to the output which should have been an image file. This was making the image files invalid, causing the browser to issue cryptic errors. Does that sound like it might be your problem? I’d try doing some very simple operations on an image as a test to make sure it seems to be working. If that goes fine I’d have a look at the methods you’re trying to call to make sure none of them are deprecated.

One final thing. Sorry to ask this but you do have all of the correct pieces in the puzzle (Apache, PHP and Imagick compiled with VC9)? Just making sure!

Good luck.

Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error.

Here is the code snippet that I am trying to run

It just acts like the page doesn’t exist, but if I do

getCopyright();
echo $cp
?>

I get

Copyright (C) 1999-2010 ImageMagick Studio LLC

and yes the file exists. Anyway, any clues I have tried different versions of Image Magick (all Q16 windows.dll)

Any ideas?