libraw

Install command:
brew install libraw

Library for reading RAW files from digital photo cameras

https://www.libraw.org/

License: LGPL-2.1-only OR CDDL-1.0

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/libraw.json

Formula code: libraw.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

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

Current versions:

stable ✅ 0.22.3
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on:

jpeg-turbo 3.2.1 JPEG image codec that aids compression and decompression
little-cms2 2.20 Color management engine supporting ICC profiles
libomp 23.1.5 LLVM's OpenMP runtime library

Depends on when building from source:

pkgconf 3.0.10 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Binaries: 4channels, dcraw_emu, dcraw_half, half_mt, mem_image, multirender_test, postprocessing_benchmark, raw-identify, rawtextdump, simple_dcraw, unprocessed_raw

GitHub Packages downloads:

Last 30 days95,511
Downloads9,391,944
Analytics install events (30 days)9,205
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Analytics:

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Installs9,20118,909147,841
Installs (--HEAD)4837
Installs on Request2,3803,96226,284
Installs on Request (--HEAD)4837
Build Errors0