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Portable version of ImageMagick to package with my app?

I've built a Content Management System application in CakePHP which I've utilised ImageMagick for transforming uploaded images and PDF files.

The biggest problem I've found with using ImageMagick is when I come to deploy the application on someone else's hosting.

Their server either doesn't have IM installed, or it's version 6.2.8 and very outdated and typically it's cheap hosting with no shell access.

I was curious to know if anyone knew of a way to package ImageMagick as a unix binary which I could call relatively from the root of my content management system? This could then be uploaded as a library, removing the need for the dependency.

Thanks in advance.

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