Show HN: Easy alternative to giflib – header-only decoder in C
github.comHi HN, I made a lightweight, header-only GIF decoder in C, inspired by stb-style libraries. No dynamic allocation, portable, and optimized for embedded devices.
GitHub: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/TurboStitchGIF-HeaderOn...
Would love feedback or suggestions.
Very nice project, interesting that there's a couple header-only projects on the front page today [0].
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44556318
I made this to replace giflib for embedded and low-resource use cases. It's:
header-only (drop-in),
zero-allocation (you provide the buffer),
faster LZW decoding (turbo mode),
compatible with C89 environments, etc.
Happy to get feedback or suggestions!
Listing code size numbers for arm-none-eabi-gnu might be good advertisement (compile/"size" output of a file using all the functions is enough, no need to figure out some target to link or have a main() for)
> compatible with C89 environments
What do you mean by this? Because the code I'm looking at does not appear to be C89.