Current Version: 4.1.0
Uploaded: 19th January 1999

Libungif, a library for using uncompressed GIFs.

Getting libungif via ftp

The latest version of libungif should be available from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libungif.
The ftp server has finally been fixed so it displays files. Please feel free to use it again: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/graphics

Additionally, those of you running a distribution of linux that uses the rpm package manager can find precompiled binaries at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libungif

Features and bugfixes that have not yet entered the main distribution may be available at: http://www.arrakeen.demon.co.uk/giflib/

Getting libungif via anonymous cvs

Since I have received so many bug fixes and enhancements to libungif from teh net community, I've decided that it's time I put libungif into a publically available cvs repository. Anyone wanting to checkout the latest version of libungif is welcome to use the anonymous cvs server to grab the most current code. If you would like to have write access to the archive in order to make changes directly, please contact me: badger@prtr-13.ucsc.edu

Note: In order to compile code from the cvs tree you will need to have the latest versions of the following GNU tools (all available from ftp.gnu.org)

  • autoconf
  • automake
  • libtool
This is because I only store files in cvs that are not automatically generated by other tools. The distributed version (created by "make dist") contains some of the generated files so that it is easier to compile and run from a tarball.

Instructions for using anonymous cvs

In a bourne compatible shell (such as bash, sh, zsh, etc) 
$ CVSROOT=":pserver:guest@prtr-13.ucsc.edu:/var/lib/cvs"
$ export CVSROOT

If you are not using any other cvs servers, you might want to put this in your login script. 

$ cvs login
(Logging in to guest@prtr-13.ucsc.edu)
CVS password:
### [There is no password, just hit return]

This only needs to be done ONCE, not every time you access CVS. 

$ cvs -z3 co libungif

Please use the -z3 option as it provides a significant amount of compression to minimize the network load while not maxing out the CPU.

Now that you have the code checked out, you should be able to use the included autogen.sh script to configure the library and then make to build it.

Last modified: Monday, 03 November, 2003 by

Toshio Kuratomi badger@prtr-13.ucsc.edu