bmp

a basic bmp loader for little endian systems

features

Supported files formats :

• 32 bits BGRX
• 24 bits BGR
• 16 bits X1B5G5R5
• 8 bits indexed bitmaps
• 4 bits indexed bitmaps
• monochrome indexed bitmaps
• RLE8
• RLE4

/!\ BMP files with bitmasks are not supported

using the library

use the exemple below :

#include <stdlib.h>

#include "bmp.h"

void foo(char *filename)
{
  int w, h;
  char *pixels;
  int res;
  
  /* load the bmp specified by filename and stores the datas in a freshly allocated buffer
     Note : pixels format is RGBA */
  res = loadBMP( filename, &pixels, &w, &h );
  if( res ) {
    printf("Error, could not load %s\n", filename);
    return;
  }
  
  /* do cool stuff with the pixels */
  
  free(pixels);
}