BMP Image Viewer

A simple BMP image viewer written in C without using any external image libraries.

Description

It is a very simple image viewer for 24-bit BMP image files. It does not use any external image libraries, relyes on SDL2 a cross platform multimedia library for rendering the image. It works by opening a BMP image file in the read mode and then extracts header meta data and all the pixel data used to render the picture. It uses a simple rendering technique which renders the whole image pixel by pixel.

Getting Started

Dependencies

This Project uses only SDL2 as an external library so the only dependency is the SDL2 libray itself.

Installation

To build and run this project in your machine you will need some tools :

• gcc (any C compiler),
• make (to automate the build process),
• SDL2 library (for rendering the picture)

Install GCC and Make on ubuntu using apt :

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essentials 

Install SDL2 on ubuntu using apt :

sudo apt install libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev

Executing

Clone the project :

git clone https://github.com/Prashant-0409/bmp-image-viewer.git
cd bmp-image-viewer

Project Structure

bmp-image-viewer/
├── src/
│   ├── bmp_viewer.c
│   └── features.c
├── obj/
├── inc/
│   └── features.h
├── pictures/
│   ├── test_1.bmp
│   └── test_2.bmp
├── Makefile
└── README.md