The latest version of this library is available from GitHub.
This is a simple library to load images of various formats as SDL surfaces.
It can load BMP, GIF, JPEG, LBM, PCX, PNG, PNM (PPM/PGM/PBM), QOI, TGA, XCF, XPM, and simple SVG format images. It can also load AVIF, JPEG-XL, TIFF, and WebP images, depending on build options (see the note below for details.)
Refer to CategoryAPI for a list of functions, and the examples showimage.c for documentation on this library.
This library is under the zlib License, see the file LICENSE.txt for details.
Note:
Support for AVIF, JPEG-XL, TIFF, and WebP are not included by default because of the size of the decode libraries, but you can get them by running external/download.sh
When building with CMake, you can enable the appropriate SUPPORT_* options defined in CMakeLists.txt.
When building with configure/make, you can build and install them normally and the configure script will detect and use them.
When building with Visual Studio, you will need to build the libraries and then add the appropriate LOAD_* preprocessor define to the Visual Studio project.
When building with Xcode, you can edit the config at the top of the project to enable them, and you will need to include the appropriate framework in your application.
For Android, you can edit the config at the top of Android.mk to enable them.