The latest version of this library is available from:

http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/projects/SDL_image/

This is a simple library to load images of various formats as SDL surfaces.

This library supports BMP, PNM (PPM/PGM/PBM), XPM, PCX, GIF, JPEG, PNG,

TGA, and TIFF formats.

API:

#include "SDL_image.h"

SDL_Surface *IMG_Load(const char *file);

or

SDL_Surface *IMG_Load_RW(SDL_RWops *src, int freesrc);

or

where type is a string specifying the format (i.e. "PNG" or "pcx").

Note that IMG_Load_RW cannot load TGA images.

An example program 'showimage' is included, with source in showimage.c

JPEG support requires the JPEG library: http://www.ijg.org/

PNG support requires the PNG library: http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/

and the Zlib library: http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/

TIFF support requires the TIFF library: ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/tiff/

This library is under the GNU Library General Public License, see the file

"COPYING" for details. Certain image loaders may be under a different

license, see the individual image loader source files for details.