8Bit Bitmap from resource

When loading a bitmap from resource I can simply do that this way:

  
HINSTANCE hInstance = GetModuleHandle(NULL);
HANDLE hBitmap = LoadBitmap(hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE (iResource));
	
BITMAPINFO bmInfo;
if(bmInfo.bmiHeader.biBitCount <= 8)
	bmInfo.bmiHeader.biBitCount = 8;

GetObject(hBitmap, sizeof(BITMAPINFO), &bmInfo);
DeleteObject(hBitmap);

hBitmap = LoadResource(hInstance, FindResource(hInstance,MAKEINTRESOURCE(iResource), RT_BITMAP));

	BYTE* pTextureImage = (BYTE*)LockResource(hBitmap);
		pTextureImage += sizeof(BITMAPINFO)-1;
	
	*iTextureWidth = bmInfo.bmiHeader.biWidth; 
	*iTextureHeight = bmInfo.bmiHeader.biHeight;
	
return pTextureImage;

It is no problem to create a OpenGL texture from pTextureImage, but - you guess it - only with a 24 Bit Bitmap. But I want to use 8 Bit Bitmaps (256 colors) instead. Has anyone suggestions or maybe some exmples for me? thanks.

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