Re: merging imread and imwrite

[Thomas Treichl]

John W. Eaton schrieb:
> On 31-Jan-2008, Thomas Treichl wrote:
>
> | There won't be a problem on MacOSX -- it's just a question about how many 
> | library dependencies should be solved before building ImageMagick and use that 
> | for Octave? Sure, the best thing would be 'all' but I think then we would at 
> | least double the size of an Octave standalone binary application just because of 
> | graphics libraries?! So I'm out of ideas here -- what is the best middle course?
>
> If we only linked the ImageMagick libraries with the .oct files that
> need them, then the Octave binary itself would not be larger, but yes,
> it is somewhat more complicated to build a fully functional Octave
> distribution if there are more dependencies.
>
> OTOH, if all we are doing is reading some image files, maybe ImageMagick
> is more than we need.  Are there other portable libraries available
> that support a reasonable number of image formats and that just read
> and write without being full image processing libraries?
>
> jwe

If eg. the libpng, libtiff and libjpeg libraries could be used directly then I 
think this would be a great thing because they are very small and can be build 
easily (are there any other famous pixel formats, eg. like .bmp on Windows? On a 
Mac I noticed that most apps do want a .tiff format). For Gnuplot.app I need to 
compile gdlib - it seems to be a layer above png, jpeg and others but I actually 
can't tell any details about it...

  Thomas