Is there an open source library out there somewhere that can load and decode DDS files (including compressed formats like DXTn) without requiring me to have a DirectX context around? My project is in C++ and is using GDI+ for its drawing (and no converting the textures to some other easier to parse format isn't an option)
Freeimage library lists DDS reading as feature: https://freeimage.sourceforge.io/
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DirectXTex can read and write DDS files, and and can decompress block compressed formats.
Thanks for the advice, FreeImage works great and it was easy to use FreeImage with GDI+ thanks to being able to study what the C# binding (which can load an image into a .NET Bitmap object which is just a GDI+ Bitmap object in .NET form) was doing.
I use ddstextureloader, a little bit customized. Very lightweight and does what it needs to (can be found on github)
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