C Image Library [closed]

Answer 1

DevIL is often recommended. Whether or not it does what you want, I don't know.

Answer 2

ImageMagick has a C API to connect to its libraries. There's also what they call a "low-level interface" between C and the ImageMagick libraries.

Answer 3

I will second Thomas Owens's ImageMagick suggestion. It is mind-boggling just how comprehensive the library is, and how much time it saves you in the end.

Answer 4

If you control the images you're loading, the lightest loader I know is Sean Barrett's awesome stb_image.c (direct link to single file source code!).

There are also other very worthwhile libraries on Sean's site such as a tiny TrueType rasterizer and Vorbis decompressor, btw.

If you need OpenGL image loading that uses stb_image, I'll humbly point you to SOILex...

Answer 5

I used FreeImage for PSP games in the past, but it was for pre-processing the data rather than in-game.

Answer 6

Here is some code I wrote for handling images. It is in c++ ( not c ) but you should be able to easily extract the BMP and GIF load code. It's licensed LGPL.

I use the libpng and jpeglib for decompressing those formats.