From 6d7d58d75a710fbe122ac14d09eede99647e889b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Artem V. Navrotskiy" <bozaro@yandex.ru>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 14:38:47 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Add GC support for `vips.ImageRef`

---
 vips/image.go | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/vips/image.go b/vips/image.go
index cb3146a6..d7824ed0 100644
--- a/vips/image.go
+++ b/vips/image.go
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"io/ioutil"
+	"runtime"
 	"sync"
 	"unsafe"
 )
@@ -157,10 +158,14 @@ func newImageRef(vipsImage *C.VipsImage, format ImageType, buf []byte) *ImageRef
 		format: format,
 		buf:    buf,
 	}
-
+	runtime.SetFinalizer(image, finalizeImage)
 	return image
 }
 
+func finalizeImage(ref *ImageRef) {
+	ref.Close()
+}
+
 // Close closes an image and frees internal memory associated with it
 func (r *ImageRef) Close() {
 	r.lock.Lock()