Can't install gmagick on Windows 7 XAMPP

Question

I have XAMPP 1.8.1 with PHP 5.4.7 installed. When I add php_gmagick_ts.dll to my php.ini (I made sure that I need the ts and not the nts version), upon restarting Apache I'm getting these errors:

The procedure entry point php_checkuid_ex could not be located in the dynamic link library php5ts.dll

and after that one:

PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\xampp\php\ext\php_gmagick_ts.dll' - The specified procedure could not be found.

Any help?

Answer 1

AFAIK there is currently no GraphicsMagick DLL available working with PHP 5.4 on Windows.

As the availability of php_gmagick_(n)ts.dll for latest PHP versions is always a problem, I recommend that you either drop back to PHP 5.3 (DLLs available here) or that you use the standalone version of GraphicsMagick and call it from within PHP using exec() commands.