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  1. Microsoft Developer Studio Build File, Format Version 6.00 for VisualPng
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  3. Copyright 2000, Willem van Schaik.
  4. This code is released under the libpng license.
  5. For conditions of distribution and use, see the disclaimer
  6. and license 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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  12. Assumes that
  13. libpng DLLs and LIBs are in ..\..\projects\msvc\win32\libpng
  14. zlib DLLs and LIBs are in ..\..\projects\msvc\win32\zlib
  15. libpng header files are in ..\..\..\libpng
  16. zlib header files are in ..\..\..\zlib
  17. the pngsuite images are in ..\pngsuite
  18. To build:
  19. 1) On the main menu Select "Build|Set Active configuration".
  20. Choose the configuration that corresponds to the library you want to test.
  21. This library must have been built using the libpng MS project located in
  22. the "..\..\mscv" subdirectory.
  23. 2) Select "Build|Clean"
  24. 3) Select "Build|Rebuild All"
  25. 4) After compiling and linking VisualPng will be started to view an image
  26. from the PngSuite directory. Press Ctrl-N (and Ctrl-V) for other images.
  27. To install:
  28. When distributing VisualPng (or a further development) the following options
  29. are available:
  30. 1) Build the program with the configuration "Win32 LIB" and you only need to
  31. include the executable from the ./lib directory in your distribution.
  32. 2) Build the program with the configuration "Win32 DLL" and you need to put
  33. in your distribution the executable from the ./dll directory and the dll's
  34. libpng1.dll, zlib.dll and msvcrt.dll. These need to be in the user's PATH.
  35. Willem van Schaik
  36. Calgary, June 6th 2000
  37. P.S. VisualPng was written based on preliminary work of:
  38. - Simon-Pierre Cadieux
  39. - Glenn Randers-Pehrson
  40. - Greg Roelofs