Giflib

About

Giflib is a library for reading and writing gif images. It is API and ABI compatible with libungif which was in wide use while the LZW compression algorithm was patented.

Supported versions

To check which Giflib versions and build types are currently supported on Discoverer, execute on the login node:

module avail giflib

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module avail giflib/latest

Build recipes and tests

For those who are interested in the process of compiling and optimizing the code of Giflib we follow, there is public access to our build recipes at:

https://gitlab.discoverer.bg/vkolev/recipes/-/tree/main/giflib

There are also logs that were collected during the compilation and testing processes.

Getting help

See Getting help