Standard Library

Wuffs' standard library consists of multiple packages, each implementing a particular file format or algorithm. Those packages can be grouped into several categories:

• Compression Decoders.
• Hashers.
• Image Decoders.

The general pattern is that a package foo (e.g. jpeg, png) contains a struct bar (e.g. hasher, decoder, etc) that implements a package-independent interface. For example, every compression decoder struct would have a transform_io method. In C, this would be invoked as

// Allocate and initialize the struct.
wuffs_foo__decoder* dec = etc;

// Do the work. Error checking is not shown, for brevity.
wuffs_base__status status = wuffs_foo__decoder__transform_io(dec, etc);

When that C library is used as C++, that last line can be shortened:

wuffs_base__status status = dec->transform_io(etc);

See also the glossary, as well as the notes on:

• Coroutines.
• Initialization.
• Statuses.

Modules and Dependencies

By default, building Wuffs' standard library builds the entire thing (provided that you've defined the WUFFS_IMPLEMENTATION C macro), implementing a variety of codecs and file formats.

Packages can be individually allow-listed, for smaller binaries and faster compiles. Opt in by also defining WUFFS_CONFIG__MODULES and then also WUFFS_CONFIG__MODULE__ETC for each ETC (and its dependencies, listed below) to enable.

• ADLER32: BASE
• BMP: BASE
• CBOR: BASE
• CRC32: BASE
• DEFLATE: BASE
• GIF: BASE, LZW
• GZIP: BASE, CRC32, DEFLATE
• JSON: BASE
• LZW: BASE
• NIE: BASE
• PNG: BASE, ADLER32, CRC32, DEFLATE, ZLIB
• TGA: BASE
• WBMP: BASE
• ZLIB: BASE, ADLER32, DEFLATE

For the auxiliary modules:

• AUX_CBOR: AUX_BASE, BASE, CBOR
• AUX_IMAGE: AUX_BASE, BASE and whichever image-related modules (and their dependencies) you want, e.g. GIF, PNG, etc.
• AUX_JSON: AUX_BASE, BASE, JSON