gdk-pixbuf

Install command: 
brew install gdk-pixbuf

Toolkit for image loading and pixel buffer manipulation

https://gtk.org

License: LGPL-2.1-or-later

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/gdk-pixbuf.json

Formula code: gdk-pixbuf.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
macOS on
Intel		 sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 2.44.8

Depends on:

glib 2.90.1 Core application library for C
jpeg-turbo 3.2.1 JPEG image codec that aids compression and decompression
libpng 1.6.59 Library for manipulating PNG images
libtiff 4.7.2 TIFF library and utilities
gettext 1.0 GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library

Depends on when building from source:

docutils 0.23 Text processing system for reStructuredText
gettext 1.0 GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library
gobject-introspection 1.86.0 Generate introspection data for GObject libraries
meson 1.12.1 Fast and user friendly build system
ninja 1.13.2 Small build system for use with gyp or CMake
pkgconf 3.0.10 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Binaries: gdk-pixbuf-csource, gdk-pixbuf-pixdata, gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders, gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer

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