Use libplum for RGBGFX about rgbds HOT 7 OPEN

Replacing libpng with libplum has the side-effect of removing all of the runtime dependencies that are downloaded from Homebrew on macOS, which has these nice side-effects:

1. It simplifies the release build process by removing the need to hack around pkg-config, brew, etc to statically link against libpng
2. It will allow to trivially add fat-binary support in the macOS releases, so RGBDS could have readily-downloadable ARM64 builds rather than having to emulate it via Rosetta.

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Other alternatives to weigh: libspng, lodepng, stb_image, fpng. (Haven't investigated yet, there may be reasons why one or all of these are non-starters.)

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I don't know to what extent libplum depends on POSIXisms that Windows doesn't follow.

It does not. It's designed to be portable. However, it does not build under MSVC, because it requires C17, and the only C standard that MSVC properly supports is C89. (That being said, it can be built for Windows using any conformant compiler.)

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It also needs bash to build, since it relies on merge.sh.

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It also needs bash to build, since it relies on merge.sh.

Only from source. The releases already contain the merged files.

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If RGBGFX gets rewritten in Rust, it may end up using an existing Rust library like image. But if we do want libplum, I was looking at https://github.com/alexcrichton/bzip2-rs as an example of how to write a Rust wrapper around a C library.

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The plan is indeed to RIIR (#1213), and also to switch to libplum since it provides the functionality we are interested in (in particular, palette-aware image loading) but also support for more image formats than PNG.

I had begun writing a higher-level wrapper (the low-level bindings were trivial to write thanks to bindgen), but I got stuck on how to design that crate's API to wrap around libplum. I think @eievui5 had some interest in writing such a wrapper, but am not sure if she'd be interested in designing and/or developing it after I admittedly stole her thunder... :/ (My apologies for that, if you're reading this.)

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