Convert bitmap to PNG in-memory in C++ (win32)

Question

Can I convert a bitmap to PNG in memory (i.e. without writing to a file) using only the Platform SDK? (i.e. no libpng, etc.).

I also want to be able to define a tran

Answer 1

I read and write PNGs using libpng and it seems to deal with everthing I throw at it (I've used it in unit-tests with things like 257x255 images and they cause no trouble). I believe the API is flexible enough to not be tied to file I/O (or at least you can override its default behaviour e.g see png_set_write_fn in section on customization)

In practice I always use it via the much cleaner boost::gil PNG IO extension, but unfortunately that takes char* filenames and if you dig into it the png_writer and file_mgr classes in its implementation it seem pretty tied to FILE* (although if you were on Linux a version using fmemopen and in-memory buffers could probably be cooked up quite easily).