ImageMagick，IMagick和XAMPP的工作版本组合

Question

I'm trying to get the following working: XAMPP, ImageMagick and IMagick PHP extension. I started with the latest of everything:

xampp-win32-1.8.3-2-VC11
ImageMagick-6.8.8-2-Q16-x64-dll
php_imagick-3.1.2-5.5-ts-vc11-x86

I then tried different versions of the latter two:

ImageMagick-6.8.8-2-Q8-x86-dll, ImageMagick-6.7.7-5-Q16-windows-dll
php_imagick-3.2.0b1-5.4-ts-vc9-x86 (and others)

(In all cases the PHP extension is installed as '/php/ext/php_imagick.dll')

But on launching XAMPP Apache I always get one of the following two errors (depending on the dll used):

 PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\xampp\php\ext\php_imagick.dll'
      - The specified module could not be found; or
      - %1 is not a valid win32 application

There is lots on the internet about this including this answer Running ImageMagick on XAMPP 1.8.3 with Windows 7, but none consistent and nothing that works for me. I'm starting to think that the versions thing is a red herring and that there is something more subtle at play. Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

Looking at the errors you received at launching Xampp '%1 is not a valid win32 application', this seems due to a x86 - x64 mixed up. Either by trying to run x64 Imagemagick with Xampp (which is native x86), either/or a wrong PHP extension. Iam no expert in PHP, but it's a rule of thumb to use x86 add-ons, modules, extensions etc. for a native x86 app.