I'm currently using the following to write a PNG to a file:
#include <png.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdint.h>
/* Pixels in this bitmap structure are stored as BGR. */
typedef struct _RGBPixel {
uint8_t blue;
uint8_t green;
uint8_t red;
} RGBPixel;
/* Structure for containing decompressed bitmaps. */
typedef struct _RGBBitmap {
RGBPixel *pixels;
size_t width;
size_t height;
size_t bytewidth;
uint8_t bytes_per_pixel;
} RGBBitmap;
/* Returns pixel of bitmap at given point. */
#define RGBPixelAtPoint(image, x, y) \
*(((image)->pixels) + (((image)->bytewidth * (y)) \
+ ((x) * (image)->bytes_per_pixel)))
/* Attempts to save PNG to file; returns 0 on success, non-zero on error. */
int save_png_to_file(RGBBitmap *bitmap, const char *path)
{
FILE *fp = fopen(path, "wb");
png_structp png_ptr = NULL;
png_infop info_ptr = NULL;
size_t x, y;
png_uint_32 bytes_per_row;
png_byte **row_pointers = NULL;
if (fp == NULL) return -1;
/* Initialize the write struct. */
png_ptr = png_create_write_struct(PNG_LIBPNG_VER_STRING, NULL, NULL, NULL);
if (png_ptr == NULL) {
fclose(fp);
return -1;
}
/* Initialize the info struct. */
info_ptr = png_create_info_struct(png_ptr);
if (info_ptr == NULL) {
png_destroy_write_struct(&png_ptr, NULL);
fclose(fp);
return -1;
}
/* Set up error handling. */
if (setjmp(png_jmpbuf(png_ptr))) {
png_destroy_write_struct(&png_ptr, &info_ptr);
fclose(fp);
return -1;
}
/* Set image attributes. */
png_set_IHDR(png_ptr,
info_ptr,
bitmap->width,
bitmap->height,
8,
PNG_COLOR_TYPE_RGB,
PNG_INTERLACE_NONE,
PNG_COMPRESSION_TYPE_DEFAULT,
PNG_FILTER_TYPE_DEFAULT);
/* Initialize rows of PNG. */
bytes_per_row = bitmap->width * bitmap->bytes_per_pixel;
row_pointers = png_malloc(png_ptr, bitmap->height * sizeof(png_byte *));
for (y = 0; y < bitmap->height; ++y) {
uint8_t *row = png_malloc(png_ptr, sizeof(uint8_t) * bitmap->bytes_per_pixel);
row_pointers[y] = (png_byte *)row;
for (x = 0; x < bitmap->width; ++x) {
RGBPixel color = RGBPixelAtPoint(bitmap, x, y);
*row++ = color.red;
*row++ = color.green;
*row++ = color.blue;
}
}
/* Actually write the image data. */
png_init_io(png_ptr, fp);
png_set_rows(png_ptr, info_ptr, row_pointers);
png_write_png(png_ptr, info_ptr, PNG_TRANSFORM_IDENTITY, NULL);
/* Cleanup. */
for (y = 0; y < bitmap->height; y++) {
png_free(png_ptr, row_pointers[y]);
}
png_free(png_ptr, row_pointers);
/* Finish writing. */
png_destroy_write_struct(&png_ptr, &info_ptr);
fclose(fp);
return 0;
}
How can I write a similar function (in C) to encode a PNG to an in-memory buffer?
The prototype would look something like this:
uint8_t *encode_png_to_buffer(RGBBitmap *source);
And it seems that I would probably need to make some use of png_set_write_fn().
But apart from that I'm not sure how to approach this. Are there any examples of this being done? Surely I'm not the first to need this functionality.