This page provides compiled binaries of the ImageMagick image processing library for Windows 2000. These packages may also work on Windows NT, 95, 98, Me and XP, but have not been tested on these platforms.

The files here are provided purely for convenience. I do not undertake to support these files, nor do I promise to answer questions relating to these files. If you're having specific problems - broken downloads, file not found, etc. - then please let me know. For help on installation, see http://www.dylanbeattie.net/magick/ if you haven't already - otherwise direct all queries to the mailing list at magick-users@imagemagick.org

The files here were built using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, following the build instructions included in the standard ImageMagick distribution. The PPM files were compiled according to the instructions on this site. They are provided merely as a convenience for people who don't have the software, the resources or the time to compile their own packages.

ImageMagick is copyright © 2001 ImageMagick Studio

A Word On Versions

Many users, particularly those from a pure Windows background, find the ImageMagick packages a little confusing at first. ImageMagick itself is not a program or an application - it's a set of functions for manipulating images that's distributed as a collection of DLLs. A system which has ImageMagick installed means that these DLL packages are present and available for other programs to utilise - if you've ever used software which complains about needing VBRUN300.DLL, then you'll know what this means :) Until you have some software that can call these DLLs, you can't actually *do* anything with ImageMagick.

Some people use the ImageMagick libraries to develop their own software, but most of us are interested in using them to manipulate image files. To this end, there are a number of different pieces of software (known as interfaces) which provide a mechanism for accessing the functions in the ImageMagick library.

The most common of these is the command-line tools. This is a set of executables (animate.exe, mogrify.exe, convert.exe, etc.) which you can run from the Windows command line or call from batch files, etc.

This page also hosts binary distributions of PerlMagick - an interface which allows you to call ImageMagick functions from within Perl scripts.

If you're running Windows, you've never heard of Perl or APIs or DLLs and you just want to convert your images from one format to another, you want the ImageMagick (full) distribution.

Latest Binaries (currently 5.4.6)

As of version 5.4.5, the distributions below are built with an 8-bit quantum depth. If you don't know what this means, don't worry. If you specifically need 16-bit quantum support, binaries are available here.

PerlMagick PPM (full)

This includes the Perl module and all supporting ImageMagick files. It is recommended for installation on systems which require only PerlMagick (eg. web servers). This is all you need to install PerlMagick.

ImageMagick (full)

This includes the ImageMagick binaries, including the command-line tools (animate.exe, composite.exe, etc.) Get this package if you want to use ImageMagick on a Windows system but don't want to use Perl. This is functionally identical to the official ImageMagick Win2K binary distribution.

PerlMagick PPM (module only)

This includes only the PPM module. Get this package if you want to add PerlMagick to a system which already has the ImageMagick libraries installed.

Installation Instructions

To install PerlMagick, please read the PerlMagick Howto here

To install the ImageMagick (full) package, (including the command-line binaries - animate.exe, convert.exe, mogrify.exe, etc.)

1. Unzip the contents of ImageMagick.zip into a directory on your local filesystem, eg c:\imagemagick.
2. Set the MAGICK_HOME variable to point to this path, and ensure this directory has been added to your system path - this is easiest done by right-clicking 'My Computer', Properties, Advanced, Environment Variables...

NOTE: Certain versions of Windows include a built-in utility called 'convert.exe' (a disk format conversion tool). If you get an error about 'Must specify a filesystem' when trying to convert images, it means that Windows is finding it's own version of convert.exe before it finds the ImageMagick version. There are three ways around this:

1. Ensure that your ImageMagick directory is *before* your WINNT\system32 directory in your system path
2. Rename the Windows version of convert to something like fsconvert.exe. I always do this, since I convert images on a daily basis but I've never converted a filesystem in my life :)
3. Rename the ImageMagick convert.exe to something like iconvert.exe or imageconvert.exe.

Old Binaries

Note: The ImageMagick releases use a four-part version number - eg. 5.2.6-3 indicates major version 5, minor version 2, release 6, revision 3. Revisions indicate bug-fixes only - ie. 5.4.3-6 does exactly the same things as 5.4.3-1, but with less bugs. I keep one build of each release, but bug-fix releases will replace any earlier version of that release. As of April 2002, all archived binaries will be the latest revision of their version. Older versions - I have no idea which revision they are, so you're on your own :)

Archived binaries

Page maintained by Dylan Beattie. <imagemagick [at] dylanbeattie [dot] net>
Copyright © 2001 dylanbeattie.net.
The information contained in this page may be freely distributed and modified
subject to the terms of the ImageMagick distribution agreement.