# Read BMP file without image processing toolboxes

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**Category:** Signal and image processing\
**Created:** [February 26, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://scilab.discourse.group/t/read-bmp-file-without-image-processing-toolboxes/839 "2025-02-26T16:50:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://scilab.discourse.group/t/read-bmp-file-without-image-processing-toolboxes/839/6 "2025-02-28T14:36:08Z")

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Hello Stéphane.

Maybe your question can be placed in a seperate topic linking to this topic?

Absolutely I do not have any problem using the available toolboxes and my aim is not to replace them in any way. To me the whole thing is based on interest.

I do use IPCV and scicv a lot … although I sometimes run in issues like:  
`imread()` is defined in both toolboxes.

I just recognized some things:

- Toolboxes have to be rebuild for every Scilab major release.

Comments like this are the result:

> The scicv toolbox has been rebuilt for Scilab 2025.0 (Windows).  
> see: [Scicv toolbox for Windows 2025.0](https://scilab.discourse.group/t/scicv-toolbox-for-windows-2025-0/744)

> The IPCV toolbox has been rebuilt for Scilab 2025.0 (Windows).  
> see: [Unable to install IPCV - #2 by stefa24](https://scilab.discourse.group/t/unable-to-install-ipcv/739/2)

> The new version 4.2.3 of guibuilder toolbox is now available and running fine in Scilab 2023.1.  
> see: [Scilab 2023.1.0 and GUI Builder](https://scilab.discourse.group/t/scilab-2023-1-0-and-gui-builder/140)

I do understand, that toolboxes had to be rebuild after changing from `< Scilab 6.x.x` to the new releases.

What confuses me is that toolboxes need to be rebuild when changing from  
`Scilab 2023` to e.g. `Scilab 2025`…at least it seems to be like this.

Please correct me, but to me it is a confusing when toolboxes have to keep track of scilab releases and need to be rebuild for every scilab release.

Best Regards,  
Philipp

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