Windows programming question...:) (png support)

[Jose]

I was asked by someone to do a small app 4 windows. I read a tutorial on windows API for people already into C and it seems more or less straighforward. Now I have a small problem. GDI doesn't support PNG (or Jpeg but I prefer PNG) decoding of graphics objects and while GDI+ does it's only available by default in XP. Actually you can use it in previous Windows versions but the thing seems to be too much C++ oriented for my taste.
So I need to choose and learn another method and I was wondering what would be the best one considering it's usability in other future projects.

Cheers

[Jose]

Amiga datatypes come to mind..

I was googling about using it in Win2k and found some previous GDI+ version(s?) had a flaw that allowed to execution of code from malicious jpeg images :roflmao:

Anyway, before GDI+ how did most developers support jpeg and png etc., did M$ provided some standard lib ? I find it hard to believe they only added support for that after XP :-o

Checking libpng right now...