webp-viewer is a program that loads and displays a WebP image.
Animations are currently only partially supported, that is the viewer will only load the first frame of an animated WebP image.
To build webp-viewer from source you need a C++ compiler with support for C++17, CMake 3.8 or later, OpenGL, the GLFW library (version 3.3 or later) and the libwebp library. pkg-config is required to make it easier to find compiler options for the installed libraries. Additionally, the program uses Catch (C++ Automated Test Cases in Headers) to perform some tests.
It also helps to have Git, a distributed version control system, on your build system to get the latest source code directly from the Git repository.
All of that can usually be installed by typing
apt-get install catch cmake g++ git libgl-dev libglfw3-dev libwebp-dev pkg-config
or
yum install catch-devel cmake gcc-c++ git glfw-devel libwebp-devel pkgconfig
into a root terminal.
Get the source directly from Git by cloning the Git repository and change to the directory after the repository is completely cloned:
git clone https://gitlab.com/striezel/webp-viewer.git
cd webp-viewer
That's it, you should now have the current source code on your machine.
The build process is relatively easy, because CMake does all the preparations. Starting in the root directory of the source, you can do the following steps:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../
make -j4
If you want to run the test suite, too, then there is one more step:
ctest -V
For information how to build webp-viewer on Windows, see the MSYS2 build instructions.
webp-viewer [OPTIONS] [FILE]
Loads and shows WebP images.
options:
-? | --help - Shows this help message.
-v | --version - Shows version information.
--shortcuts - Shows available keyboard shortcuts.
FILE - Sets the file name of the image to show.
Can be repeated multiple times to view several images.
The webp-viewer currently supports the following shortcuts:
| Key | Effect |
|---|---|
| ESC / Q | Closes the viewer. |
| A / ← | Shows the previous image. |
| D / → | Shows the next image. |
The previous and next image shortcuts only work when more than one image was given as argument. (They would be useless for cases with only one image.)
A changelog is provided as separate file.
Copyright 2022, 2023, 2024 Dirk Stolle
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.