lun-4 / zigimg

Zig library for reading and writing different image formats

Zig Image library

This is a work in progress library to create, process, read and write different image formats with Zig programming language.

Install & Build

This project assume current Zig master (0.10.0+) with stage2 self-hosted compiler.

Use zigimg in your project

How to add to your project:

1. Clone this repository or add as a submodule
2. Add to your build.zig

exe.addPackagePath("zigimg", "zigimg/zigimg.zig");

Test suite

To run the test suite, checkout the test suite and run

1. Checkout zigimg
2. Go back one folder and checkout the test suite
3. Run the tests with zig build

zig build test

Supported image formats

Image Format	Read	Write
ANIM	❌	❌
BMP	✔️ (Partial)	❌
GIF	❌	❌
ICO	❌	❌
IILBM	❌	❌
JPEG	❌	❌
PAM	❌	❌
PBM	✔️	❌
PCX	✔️	❌
PGM	✔️ (Partial)	✔️ (Partial)
PNG	✔️	✔️ (Partial)
PPM	✔️ (Partial)	❌
QOI	✔️	✔️
TGA	✔️	❌
TIFF	❌	❌
XBM	❌	❌
XPM	❌	❌

BMP - Bitmap

• version 4 BMP
• version 5 BMP
• 24-bit RGB
• 32 RGBA
• Doesn't support any compression

PBM - Portable Bitmap format

• Everything is supported

PCX - ZSoft Picture Exchange format

• Support monochrome, 4 color, 16 color and 256 color indexed images
• Support 24-bit RGB images

PGM - Portable Graymap format

• Support 8-bit and 16-bit grayscale images
• 16-bit ascii grayscale loading not tested

PNG - Portable Network Graphics

• Support all pixel formats supported by PNG (grayscale, grayscale+alpha, indexed, truecolor, truecolor with alpha) in 8-bit or 16-bit.
• Support the mininal chunks in order to decode the image.
• Not all images in Png Test Suite is covered but should be good enough for now.

PPM - Portable Pixmap format

• Support 24-bit RGB (8-bit per channel)
• Missing 48-bit RGB (16-bit per channel)

QOI - Quite OK Image Format

• Imported from https://github.com/MasterQ32/zig-qoi with blessing of the author

TGA - Truevision TGA format

• Supports uncompressed and compressed 8-bit grayscale, indexed with 16-bit colormap, truecolor with 24-bit or 32-bit bit depth.