libpng
| Developer(s) | Guy Eric Schalnat Andreas Dilger Glenn Randers-Pehrson et al |
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| Stable release | |
| Repository | |
| Operating system | cross platform |
| Type | image library |
| License | zlib/libpng license |
| Website | http://libpng.org |
libpng is the official PNG reference library (originally called pnglib). It is a platform-independent library that contains C functions for handling PNG images. It is developed by Guy Eric Schalnat, Andreas Dilger, Glenn Randers-Pehrson and others. libpng is dependent on zlib.
The first version of the library was released on May 1, 1995.
Installation
A very simple tutorial that explains how to compile and install libpng on Linux can be found here.
External links
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