JPEG support with ijg - getting access violation

Question

I was recently trying to update my game to store graphics in compressed formats (JPEG and PNG).

Whilst I ended up settling on a different library, my initial attempt

Answer 1

It's difficult to see the cause of the access violation from the code sample given. If you can include a stack trace (with symbols) that would help identify the issue. One thing to verify is that the alignment settings for the .LIB and .EXE projects are consistent, this will often lead to nasty problems as struct/class members are not where the compiler expects them to be.