libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
I'm trying to load a PNG image using SDL but the program doesn't work and this error appears in the console
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
Why does this warning appear? What should I do to solve this problem?
Answer
Libpng-1.6 is more stringent about checking ICC profiles than previous versions. You can ignore the warning. To get rid of it, remove the iCCP chunk from the PNG image.
Some applications treat warnings as errors; if you are using such an application you do have to remove the chunk. You can do that with any of a variety of PNG editors such as ImageMagick's
convert in.png out.png
To remove the invalid iCCP chunk from all of the PNG files in a folder (directory), you can use mogrify from ImageMagick:
mogrify *.png
This requires that your ImageMagick was built with libpng16. You can easily check it by running:
convert -list format | grep PNG
If you'd like to find out which files need to be fixed instead of blindly processing all of them, you can run
pngcrush -n -q *.png
where the -n means don't rewrite the files and -q means suppress most of the output except for warnings. Sorry, there's no option yet in pngcrush to suppress everything but the warnings.
Binary Releases of ImageMagick are here
For Android Projects (Android Studio) navigate into res folder.
For example:
C:\{your_project_folder}\app\src\main\res\drawable-hdpi\mogrify *.png