| Developer(s) | Denton Woods Nicolas Weber Meloni Dario et al. |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.7.8 / 8 March 2009 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Image library |
| License | GNU LGPL |
| Website | http://openil.sourceforge.net/ |
Developer's Image Library or DevIL (originally called OpenIL; the name was changed at a request from Silicon Graphics, Inc.), started by Denton Woods, is a cross-platform image library which aims to provide a common API for different image file formats. It consists of three parts: the main library (IL), the utility library (ILU) and the utility toolkit (ILUT), mirroring the corresponding parts of OpenGL (although the OpenGL Utility Toolkit is not part of the OpenGL specification).
DevIL currently supports 43 file formats for reading and 17 for writing[1]; among those with read-write support are BMP, DDS, JPEG, PCX, PNG, RAW, TGA, and TIFF. The actual supported formats depend on compilation settings, in particular, external libraries like libjpeg and libpng.