GD VS SDL_image

Compare GD vs SDL_image and see what are their differences.

SDL_image

Image decoding for many popular formats for Simple Directmedia Layer. (by libsdl-org)
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GD SDL_image
3 6
873 464
1.6% 5.6%
6.3 9.3
about 1 month ago 9 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later zlib License
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GD

Posts with mentions or reviews of GD. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-01.

SDL_image

Posts with mentions or reviews of SDL_image. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-26.
  • Anyone able to get SDL2 working with C#?
    3 projects | /r/sdl | 26 Mar 2023
    if you want to use the functions from SDL2_Image download this and follow the previous step the same way: (https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_image/releases/download/release-2.6.3/SDL2_image-devel-2.6.3-VC.zip)
  • Making my Makefile find things for me
    2 projects | dev.to | 5 Mar 2022
    Ran into a problem of my own making when pulling the SDL2 MINGW libraries SDL2 Dev, SDL Image, and so on. So... I decided, in my infinite wisdom, that I didn't want to go through each of the MINGW tarballs to find all the includes, libs, and DLLs. Yes, DLLs. Not only did I want to make sure that my future game code can be compiled on Linux, but that I can actually do some coding on my Windows machine.
  • Projects in need of JXL integration?
    4 projects | /r/jpegxl | 1 Jan 2022
    SDL_image JPEG XL support request

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GD and SDL_image you can also consider the following projects:

libvips - A fast image processing library with low memory needs.

OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library

FreeImage - A custom distribution of FreeImage, with a CMake-based build system. Used by the Athena Game Framework.

imagick - Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API

tesseract-ocr - Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

OpenImageIO - Reading, writing, and processing images in a wide variety of file formats, using a format-agnostic API, aimed at VFX applications.

Boost.GIL - Boost.GIL - Generic Image Library | Requires C++14 since Boost 1.80

hiptext - Turn images into text better than caca/aalib

CImg - The CImg Library is a small and open-source C++ toolkit for image processing

OpenEXR - The OpenEXR project provides the specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, the professional-grade image storage format of the motion picture industry.

VTK - Mirror of Visualization Toolkit repository

jpeg-xl