# 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.
Author: ImageMagick Studio LLC
Keywords: Advanced Windows Source Installation, Image Processing, Digital Image Editing, Image Conversion, Open-Source Software, Image Manipulation, Command-Line Image Tools

# Advanced Windows Installation

This document describes the requirements and instructions to build ImageMagick for Windows on your own machine.

## Requirements

- Visual Studio 2013 (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:</p: <ul>

- Desktop development with C++ (workload)
- Visual C++ ATL for x86 and x64
- Visual C++ MFC for x86 and x64

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 build with a number of third party libraries. Run `CloneRepositories.cmd` to clone these libraries and the ImageMagick library.

## Build configure.exe

One of the folders that was created in the previous step is called `VisualMagick` and this folder contains a folder called `configure`. This folder contains a solution `configure.sln`. Open this solution with Visual Studio 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 `VisualMagick` folder:

- VisualDynamicMT.sln (Dynamic Multi-threaded DLL runtimes)
- VisualStaticMTD.sln (Static Multi-threaded DLL runtimes)
- VisualStaticMT.sln (Static Multi-threaded runtimes)

Open the solution to start building ImageMagick. The binaries will be created in the VisualMagick\bin folder.