Unable to install imagick

Question

I found tons of instructions, how to install Imagick on windows. Here is a very good and detaild explanation.

I am following the instructions. So, first, download the latest DLL from PECL. Copy the php_imagick.dll to the extension dir, copy the _CORE* libraries to PHP root directory, and it shows me the following version: ImageMagick 6.9.1-2 Q16 x64 2015-04-14

Wow, great, now I have nothing to do just install this exe.

Oh, wait...

There are no installer like this. And the problems starts here. Of course, I've tried to download and install the latest installer, installed it, set the environment variables, but it always says something about entry points.

I don't know why Imagick guys removes the releases from their ftp, I think this is a very bad behaviour. Can not access from archive too.

So I am unable to installing the Imagick.

Can anybody help me with this version of installer, or give me a step-by-step instruction, how to install this Imagick for Windows 10, 64bit for Apache 2.4.2 64bit, and PHP 5.6.5 64bit?

I tried the 32bit version, but with that, the phpinfo() does not show me anything.

EDIT: There is an alternative download location here .

Answer 1

I started a thread on the Imagick forum, and now I don't know, should I cry or should I laugh...

The answer for my question was this:

Hmm... it seems we don't build our libraries with 'deprecated' methods. I will see if we can change this before the next release so DrawAllocateWand will not suddenly be gone.

I tell to the guy, ok, it's a cool thing, but I've just reinstall my machine from the scratch, so, I got this error:

Procedure entry point (DrawAllocateWand) not found in DLL

or something similar, I translated it.

So, please tell me, where can I download the ImageMagick 6.9.1-2 Q16 x64 2015-04-14 binaries, because it seems, that php_imagick.dll need this, and I should work...

The answer was:

We don't keep an archive of old binary version of ImageMagick. You could however decide to build IM from source.

CONCLUSION

If you ever had a working installer for windows for Apache, PHP, Imagick, you should always keep these in the cloud for yourself. MHO: I really hate these things. I know, most of us is working on linux boxes, but our company policy is to use OS what admin says. So I need to use windows. Now I should suck for a while, to download and install a cygwin with compilers, compile the Imagick somehow, and set all the environments variables, because some developers do not use a version controller, or maybe the sotrage is too expensive for them to store old binaries... I can not imagene these options.

Answer 2

ImageMagick is available here: http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/deps/

Imagick, that has been compiled against that version of ImageMagick is available here http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/releases/imagick/3.4.0rc5/

Downloading random versions of libraries from other places is not guaranteed to work.