I am by no means an expert, but here is what worked for me:
Using Windows7 Professional and Visual C++ Express 2010...
I checked the Install development headers and libraries for C and C++
At the end of the install, I got these two folders. Magick++.h
lies inside include
.
Be sure to set up your projects Additional Library Locations
and Additional Include Directories
and you should be able to compile your program.
Additionally: The manual suggests you need to do this for your program to work, but I did not and it still worked:
InitializeMagick(path_to_ImageMagick_DLLs);
And during my brief test, I found that Magick::Image::Magick()
which changes image formats does not work in Debug mode. It does work in Release mode though.