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libheif-sys

libheif-sys is a binding to libheif.

A high-level wrapper libheif-rs is also available.

System dependencies

libheif-dev >= 1.18.0.
clang - to generate rust bindings for libheif. See bindgen requirements.

clang wouldn't be needed if you disable use-bindgen feature. In this case the pre-generated file bindings.rs will be used instead of generating it on the fly with help of bindgen crate.

Warning: bindings.rs file was generated under x64 linux and may not work as expected under x32 architectures or other operating systems.

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Linux

The crate uses pkg-confing to find installed libheif.

You can also enable all or any of the following features to compile libheif v1.18.2 from GitHub and link it statically:

compile-libheif
embedded-libheif-plugins

Note: Static linked version of libheif doesn't have statically linked it dependencies, such as libde256, libaom and other.

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Windows

The crate uses vcpkg crate to find libheif installed with help of vcpkg.

You can use cargo-vcpkg to install libheif with help of cargo command:

cargo vcpkg -v build

cargo-vcpkg can fetch and build a vcpkg installation of required packages from scratch. It merges package requirements specified in the Cargo.toml of crates in the dependency tree.

Example of reading and decoding HEIF-image

use std::ffi;
use std::ptr;

use libheif_sys as lh;

#[test]
fn read_and_decode_heic_file() {
    unsafe {
        lh::heif_init(ptr::null_mut());

        let ctx = lh::heif_context_alloc();
        assert!(!ctx.is_null());

        let c_name = ffi::CString::new("data/test.heif").unwrap();
        let err = lh::heif_context_read_from_file(
            ctx,
            c_name.as_ptr(),
            ptr::null()
        );
        assert_eq!(err.code, lh::heif_error_code_heif_error_Ok);

        let mut handle = ptr::null_mut();
        let err = lh::heif_context_get_primary_image_handle(ctx, &mut handle);
        assert_eq!(err.code, lh::heif_error_code_heif_error_Ok);
        assert!(!handle.is_null());

        let width = lh::heif_image_handle_get_width(handle);
        assert_eq!(width, 4032);
        let height = lh::heif_image_handle_get_height(handle);
        assert_eq!(height, 3024);

        let mut image = ptr::null_mut();
        let options = lh::heif_decoding_options_alloc();
        let err = lh::heif_decode_image(
            handle,
            &mut image,
            lh::heif_colorspace_heif_colorspace_RGB,
            lh::heif_chroma_heif_chroma_interleaved_RGB,
            options,
        );
        lh::heif_decoding_options_free(options);
        assert_eq!(err.code, lh::heif_error_code_heif_error_Ok);
        assert!(!image.is_null());

        let colorspace = lh::heif_image_get_colorspace(image);
        assert_eq!(colorspace, lh::heif_colorspace_heif_colorspace_RGB);
        let chroma_format = lh::heif_image_get_chroma_format(image);
        assert_eq!(chroma_format, lh::heif_chroma_heif_chroma_interleaved_RGB);
        let width = lh::heif_image_get_width(
            image,
            lh::heif_channel_heif_channel_interleaved
        );
        assert_eq!(width, 4032);
        let height = lh::heif_image_get_height(
            image,
            lh::heif_channel_heif_channel_interleaved
        );
        assert_eq!(height, 3024);

        lh::heif_context_free(ctx);

        lh::heif_deinit();
    };
}