rust-turbojpeg

Rust bindings for TurboJPEG, which provides simple and fast compression/decompression of JPEG images.

TurboJPEG is a high-level API provided by libjpeg-turbo.

Usage

To quickly encode and decode images from the image crate, add this to the [dependencies] section in your Cargo.toml:

turbojpeg = {version = "0.2", features = ["image"]}

and then use the functions turbojpeg::decompress_image and turbojpeg::compress_image. For more details, please see the documentation.

Requirements

The low-level binding to libturbojpeg is provided by the crate turbojpeg-sys, which needs:

• Rust binding code generated from C headers using bindgen.
• Linker flags that rustc will use to link against libturbojpeg.

By default, the turbojpeg-sys crate uses a pregenerated Rust binding code (so you don't need the C headers) and the default linker flags -l turbojpeg. However, this behavior can be altered in several ways:

• Feature flag pkg-config uses the pkg-config tool to find the linker flags and the include paths for C headers that are specific for your system.
• Environment variable TURBOJPEG_INCLUDE_PATH, if specified, adds an extra include path for C headers.
• Feature flag bindgen uses the bindgen tool to generate Rust binding code at build time, instead of using the pregenerated code. If no include paths are specified (using pkg-config or TURBOJPEG_INCLUDE_PATH), we use headers that are bundled with turbojpeg-sys.

All this magic is implemented in the build.rs script in turbojpeg-sys. If you think that it could be improved, or if you encounter an error on your system, please open an issue or a pull request.

Contributing

All contributions are welcome! Please contact me (@honzasp) or open a pull request. This crate is rather minimal, the main areas of improvement are:

• Extending the safe Rust API provided by turbojpeg crate.
• Improving the build process of turbojpeg-sys crate, so that it works seamlessly on a wide range of systems.
• Testing.

License

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.