Re: [GD-DEVEL] help and code suggestion

On 4/17/07, Robert Stephen Woodman <[email protected]> wrote:

> After your first e-mail, today, I went to your website, and found the
> "extras" folder, and downloaded "gd_build_win32_deps.zip". I remember you
> saying that you would put this up, but I had looked earlier and did not see
> it, so I figured that you had not put it up. Since I have now found it, I
> have decided to use it, and see if I can keep all that I previously had,
> while also getting the bitmap support.
>
> Anyway, thanks for putting it up (if it doesn't work, then I can always use
> the DLL that I have already compiled).

Please let me know how it went, I'll be happy to fix or document any issue.

> I suppose that "WBMP" stands for "Windows BitMaP". I was not aware that
> there were other flavors of bitmaps. Anyway, I imagine that this will be
> sufficient for most cases.

It stands for Wireless Bitmap. It has sadly nothing to do with Windows
BMP (or OS/2).

Off topic, is it possible to reply to the list as well? This topic
will surely be interesting for many users :)

--Pierre