1 Microsoft Developer Studio Build File, Format Version 6.00 for VisualPng
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4 Copyright 2000, Willem van Schaik. For conditions of distribution and
5 use, see the copyright/license/disclaimer notice in png.h
7 As a PNG .dll demo VisualPng is finished. More features would only hinder
8 the program's objective. However, further extensions (like support for other
9 graphics formats) are in development. To get these, or for pre-compiled
10 binaries, go to "http://www.schaik.com/png/visualpng.html".
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16 libpng DLLs and LIBs are in ..\..\projects\msvc\win32\libpng
17 zlib DLLs and LIBs are in ..\..\projects\msvc\win32\zlib
18 libpng header files are in ..\..\..\libpng
19 zlib header files are in ..\..\..\zlib
20 the pngsuite images are in ..\pngsuite
24 1) On the main menu Select "Build|Set Active configuration".
25 Choose the configuration that corresponds to the library you want to test.
26 This library must have been built using the libpng MS project located in
27 the "..\..\mscv" subdirectory.
29 2) Select "Build|Clean"
31 3) Select "Build|Rebuild All"
33 4) After compiling and linking VisualPng will be started to view an image
34 from the PngSuite directory. Press Ctrl-N (and Ctrl-V) for other images.
39 When distributing VisualPng (or a further development) the following options
42 1) Build the program with the configuration "Win32 LIB" and you only need to
43 include the executable from the ./lib directory in your distribution.
45 2) Build the program with the configuration "Win32 DLL" and you need to put
46 in your distribution the executable from the ./dll directory and the dll's
47 libpng1.dll, zlib.dll and msvcrt.dll. These need to be in the user's PATH.
51 Calgary, June 6th 2000
53 P.S. VisualPng was written based on preliminary work of:
55 - Simon-Pierre Cadieux
56 - Glenn Randers-Pehrson