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Free C & C++ Compilers and IDE's

Anjuta Free open-source IDE for C and C++ on

Linux/GTK/GNOME.

Borland C++ 5.5 This well known compiler from Borland (for
W indows and DOS) can now be downloaded for
free (legally)!

CC386 A general-purpose 32-bit C compiler + IDE for

W indows and DOS.

Code::Blocks Studio A freeware open-source C++ IDE for W indows

and Linux. It supports these compilers: GCC
(MingW / Linux GCC), MSVC++, Digital Mars,
Borland C++ 5.5, Open Watcom.

Dev-C++ A full-featured Integrated Development

Environment (IDE) for the C/C++ programming
language. Freeware for W indows.

DevelopGo For Linux. Over 11 Languages, 5 popular

Integrated Development Environments, 4 GUI
designers, 5 GUI toolkits, extensive language
bindings, wide collection of offline documentation
and with core Onebase support all in a Single
LiveCD. After signing up for a $10 download
account, have free access to all Onebase
Products, including upgrades.

Digital Mars Free C and C++ Compilers and IDE's for Win32,
W in16, DOS32 and DOS, command line and GUI

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versions, tutorials, sample code, online updates,

Standard Template Library, etc.

djgpp A port of the GNU compiler and programming

tools to MS DOS.

Ecere A free cross-platform IDE (designer, debugger,

code editor) and SDK (GUI framework, 3D and
socket programming, etc.) for creating software
for W indows and Linux. Ecere introduces eC, an
object oriented language derived from and fully
compatible with C.

Eclipse CDT C and C++ Integrated Development Environment

(IDE) for the Eclipse platform implemented in
Java.

Embedded Visual C++ Free Visual C++ compiler for W indows Mobile
and W indows CE.

GNU C++/C Compiler GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection (freeware,

open source, multi-platform), includes front ends
for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada.
The GCC documentation section can be found
here.

Intel C++ compiler Free Linux C++ compiler from Intel. Freeware for
non-commercial use. It uses either the command
line or the optional Eclipse-based integrated
development environment (Eclipse IDE runs on
IA-32 only).

KDevelop Free open-source IDE for Linux/KDE which

supports many programming languages.

LCC-W in Free C compiler/IDE for Windows . Contains

compiler, debugger, resource compiler, resource
editor, etc etc. Freeware for non-commercial use
only.

Lightweight C++ Lightweight C++ is a programming language that

looks like C++ and is directly translated to
readable C by the lwc preprocessor.

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Macintosh Free C++ compilers, debuggers, assemblers,

Programmer's W orkshop documentation and related tools for the MAC
platform.

MinGW 'Minimalist GNU for W indows'. A collection of

freely available and freely distributable Windows
specific header files and import libraries combined
with GNU toolsets that allow one to produce
native Windows programs that do not rely on any
3rd-party C runtime DLLs. MinGW comes with
the GNU C++ compiler.
See also GCC/GCJ for MingW.

MinGW Developer Studio An IDE for the GNU C/C++ Compiler. Freeware
for W indows and Linux.

Open W atcom Freeware open source C++ (and Fortran)

compilers for Windows, Linux, OS/2 and DOS.

Pelles C A complete development kit for W indows and

Pocket PC. It contains an IDE, optimizing C
compiler, a linker, a resource compiler, a
message compiler, a make utility, a debugger,
install builders and much more. For Windows and
Pocket PC.

Relo A Windows C/C++ IDE for MinGW and Borland

C++ compilers. Freeware, open-source for
W indows.

Rhide An IDE with which you can develop and debug in

C, C++, Pascal and other languages and
compilers which can be called from Rhide.
Suitable for Linux text-console and DOS / DJGPP.

Sally A simple C++ development environment for

W indowsXP, with a "SmartW in++" Visual GUI
Designer and static library.

Small Device C Compiler A retargettable, optimizing ANSI - C compiler that

targets the Intel 8051, Maxim 80DS390, Zilog Z80
and the Motorola 68HC08 based MCUs.
Freeware, Open Source.

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SmallIDE Elegant IDE for the free Borland C++ compiler

(see elsewhere in this section).

Solaris Studio Freeware IDE, compiler, debugging and profiling

tools for Solaris and Linux. Programming
languages: C++, C and Fortran.

Tiny C Compiler Freeware, small and fast C-compiler for Linux and
W indows.

Turbo C 2.01 Free DOS C-compiler from Codegear.

Turbo C++ Free industrial strength C++ RAD (Rapid

Application Development) environment and
compiler for W indows. It comes with 200+
components and its own Visual Component
Framework. Note: this is the free edition of
Borland C++ Builder. The only limitation of this
free edition is that you can not install additional
components.

Ultimate++ Ultimate++ consists of Set of cross-platform

W indows and Linux libraries ("packages"),
widgets (user-interface elements) an IDE, a
lay-out designer for designing dialogs, image
designer for designing graphical elements,
language editor for managing internationalized
text strings, etc.

V IDE Integrated Development Environment for the GNU

g++ compiler, Borland C++ 5.5, and the standard
Sun Java Development Kit. Suitable for W indows
and Linux.

Visual C++ Express Free Visual C++ compiler for W indows and .Net
by Microsoft.

Visual-MinGW Freeware open-source IDE for Windows. An

Integrated Development Environment for MinGW
compiler.

WideStudio An open source, Integrated Development

Environment for developing GUI applications
based on the MW T(Multi-Platform Widget

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Toolkit). Supported platforms: W indows,

W indowsCE, Linux, FreeBSD, SOLARIS,
MacOSX, etc.

wx-Devcpp wxWidgets form designer plugin for Dev-C++

which can help you to create Dialogs and Frames
for wxW idgets visually.

XCode Integrated development environment (IDE) for

creating Mac OS X Universal Binaries that run
natively on PowerPC and Intel-based Macintosh
computers. Freeware.

Non-free C++ Compilers and IDE's

Code Forge Professional Integrated Development Environment

for Unix/Linux with project management features
and edit/compile/debug support for over 30
programming languages. The IDE has
preconfigured support for all major free and
commercial compilers on the market today, such
as GCC.

Code Crusader IDE for Linux-Intel, Linux-PPC and Solaris.

Supports over 30 programming languages. It
comes with the JX GUI Application framework,
which is built directly on top of Xlib.

Free Debuggers

Zero A modular C++ Linux debugger, with built in

expression interpreter. It supports x86 and x86_64
processor families and POSIX threads.

Free C++ GUI Libraries

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FLTK A cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX/Linux,

W indows, and MacOS X providing modern GUI
functionality without the usual bloat. It also
supports 3D graphics via OpenGL and its built-in
GLUT emulation.

Fox Toolkit Cross-platform C++ user-interface library,

freeware, open-source.

GPE Phone Edition A project to develop open source software for

mobile phones.

LGI Cross-platform C++ framework for abstracting out

all the operating system dependencies that you
can produce portable code. It handles all the
graphical interface functions, threading and
semaphores, network connectivity and lots of
other bits and pieces to help build small, fast and
reliable applications.

Qt Cross-platform C++ GUI framework.

Scintilla A free source code editing component. Freeware,

open-source for Linux and W indows.

The GUI Toolkit, A comprehensive reference on toolkits for building

Framework Page graphical user interfaces (GUIs), with emphasis
on resources for Free Software (Open Source)

Ultimate++ Ultimate++ consists of Set of cross-platform

W indows and Linux libraries ("packages"),
widgets (user-interface elements) an IDE, a
lay-out designer for designing dialogs, image
designer for designing graphical elements,
language editor for managing internationalized
text strings, etc.

V V is a free, multiple platform C++ graphical user

interface framework designed to make it easy to
write C++ GUI applications, commercial,
shareware, or freeware. V is available for X
Athena, X Motif/Lesstif, all W indows platforms,
and OS/2.

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Whisper2 C++ application framework for the Mac, Unix and

W indows.

wxW idgets API for writing GUI applications on multiple

platforms. Link with the appropriate library for
your platform (Windows/Unix/Mac, others coming
shortly) and compiler (almost any popular C++
compiler), and your application will adopt the look
and feel appropriate to that platform. Additionally:
online help, network programming, streams,
clipboard and drag and drop, multi-threading,
image loading and saving in a variety of popular
formats, database support, HTML viewing and
printing, etc. Freeware, Open Source

ZooLib A cross-platform application framework, enables

you to write a single set of C++ sources and
compile them to native executables to run on
MacOS, W indows, BeOS or Unix/Linux.

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Free C++ Network Libraries

ACE Portable, open-source, object-oriented C++

network programming toolkit for Unix/Linux, BSD,
W indows, MAC, Java, etc.

POCO A collection of open source class libraries that

simplify and accelerate the development of
network-centric, portable applications in C++.
Suitable for: W indows, (embedded) Linux, MAC,
HP-UX, Tru64, Solaris,QNX.

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Free C++ Database Libraries

DataReel A cross-platform C++ development kit used to

build multi-threaded database and
communications applications. Using DataReel
you can build end-user applications, embedded
systems, and reusable libraries for multiple
operating systems.

DiamondBase C++ database engine which is available for free

non commercial use, and is negotiable for
commercial use.

MySQL++ MySQL++ is a C++ wrapper for MySQL's API.

SQLLite SQLite is a small C library that implements a

self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration
SQL database engine.

Real Isam A database library (DLL) that uses the ISAM

method (Indexed Sequential Access Method) to
manage access keys and variable length data
records. For C++, Delphi, Visual Basic, etc.
Freeware for W indows.

Free C++ Compression Libraries

libmspack Portable C++ library which provides compression
and decompression of some file formats used by
Microsoft (.cab, .hlp, .chm, compress.exe, etc).

UCL UCL is a portable lossless data compression

library written in ANSI C. UCL implements a
number of compression algorithms that achieve
an excellent compression ratio while allowing
*very* fast decompression. Decompression
requires no additional memory.

ZipArchive Free zip/unzip C-library.

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ZLib Free zip/unzip C-library.

Free C++ Graphics and Game Libraries

AGG High-quality 2D graphics library with anti-aliasing

and subpixel rendering. Open source, freeware.

Amanith Framework A cross-platform (Linux, W in32, Mac OX X,

FreeBSD, Linux and IRIX) open source C++
framework for 2D and 3D vector graphics that
includes 2D curves, a 2D font engine, bitmap
vectorizer, tessellator, and an OpenGL extensions
manager.

Codehead's Bitmap A free bitmap font creation tool for OpenGL or

Font Generator DirectX applications.

OGRE 3D Open source 3D-graphics and game engine for

Linux, MAC and W indows.

OpenGL High-performance cross-platform 3D graphics

library. Elegant API. It can be used for a variety of
purposes, such as: animations, virtual reality,
game-programming, simulations, etc.

Real-Time Oscilloscope Freeware real-time Windows Oscilloscope DLL

DLL Library with an API for C++ , Delphi, MathW orks Matlab
and Simulink.

SDL A cross-platform multi-media library developed

with commercial game-porting in mind.

Free C++ PDF Libraries

Haru Free PDF Library A free, cross platform, open-sourced software

library for generating PDF written in ANSI-C. It
can work as both a static-library (.a, .lib) and a
shared-library (.so, .dll).

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libpdf++ A free C++ library to generate PDF files

pdfg++ A C++ library supporting advanced graphics PDF

output. This includes transparency and shading.

PoDoFo The PoDoFo library is a free, portable C++ library.

It can parse existing PDF files and create new
ones from scratch.

Free C++ Unicode Libraries

FreeType A free, high-quality, and portable font engine,

which supports True Type and Open Type Fonts
as well as unicode.

IBM's ICU The International Component for Unicode (ICU) is

a mature, portable set of C/C++ and Java libraries
for Unicode support, software internationalization
(I18N) and globalization (G11N), giving
applications the same results on all platforms.

International components W idely used set of C/C++ and Java libraries for
for Unicode Unicode support; open source.

LASi A C++ library that provides a C++ stream output

interface for creating Postscript documents
containing Unicode characters.

libiconv Unicode character conversion library using over

150 character set encodings.

libunicows Unicode library for W in32, to alleviate the

complications related to developing a single
unicode app for all Win32 platforms.

Pango A library for laying out and rendering of text, with

an emphasis on internationalization.

UTF - CPP A simple, portable and lightweight generic library

for handling UTF-8 encoded strings.

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xtklib Free C++ library for W indows and Unix

(Linux/BSD) with: streams, unicode strings,
sockets, file access, exceptions hierarchy, etc.

Free C++ Audio libraries

Bass An audio library for use in Linux, W indows and

Mac OSX software. Its purpose is to provide
developers with powerful and efficient sample,
stream (MP3, MP2, MP1, OGG, WAV, AIFF,
custom generated, and more via add-ons), MOD
music (XM, IT, S3M, MOD, MTM, UMX), MO3
music (MP3/OGG compressed MODs), and
recording functions. All in a tiny DLL, under
100Kb in size.
C/C++, Delphi, Visual Basic and MASM APIs are
provided, with several examples to get you
started. .Net and other APIs are also available.

FMod FMOD is a cross platform audio library to let you

easily implement the latest audio technologies
into your software.

MP3' Tech MPEG and related source codes.

Open Source Audio A set of classes in C++ that will handle audio
Library Project functions on most popular Unix platforms: the
Linux (OSS) audio device, Solaris Sparc audio
device, FreeBSD (OSS) audio device, wav, au,
aiff, aifc, mp3, etc.

Free C++ Libraries: General

Blitz++ A high-performance C++ class library for

numerical calculations, vector/matrix operations
and scientific computing. Freeware, open-source.

Boost Free portable C++ source libraries extending the

standard library: streams, buffers, concurrency,

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regex, date/time, etc.

C++ Libraries FAQ Very large collection of links to C++ libraries of

almost any type.

Crypto++ Free C++ cryptographic class library containing a

multitute of encryption (and related) algorithms:
AES Rijndael, RC6, Mars, TwoFish, RSA, DSA,
DES, elliptic curve, SHA-1, etc.
One purpose of Crypto++ is to act as a repository
of public domain (not copyrighted) source code.

FreeType A free, high-quality, and portable font engine,

which supports True Type and Open Type Fonts
as well as unicode.

Loki A C++ library consisting of flexible

implementations of common design patterns and
idioms.

MinGW 'Minimalist GNU for W indows'. A collection of

freely available and freely distributable Windows
specific header files and import libraries combined
with GNU toolsets that allow one to produce
native Windows programs that do not rely on any
3rd-party C runtime DLLs. MinGW comes with
the GNU C++ compiler.
See also GCC/GCJ for MingW.

OpenMP An Application Program Interface (API) which

supports multi-platform shared-memory parallel
programming in C/C++ and Fortran on all
architectures, including Unix platforms and
W indows NT platforms. Jointly defined by a group
of major computer hardware and software
vendors, OpenMP is a portable, scalable model
that gives shared-memory parallel programmers a
simple and flexible interface for developing parallel
applications for platforms ranging from the
desktop to the supercomputer.

P::Classes A portable, high performance C++ application

framework which provides many classes needed
for real-world application development, emphasing

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on ease of use, size and stability.

STLSoft Freeware header libraries which function in

combination with a large number of compilers (on
Unix and W indows).

The Polya C++ Library This free C++ library provides Lisp-like lists and
I/O, including a higher-order function capability
and incremental ("infinite") lists to enable rapid
prototyping of programs.

The Standard Freeware C++ library providing functions covering

Function Library a wide range of areas, such as: compression,
encryption, encoding, conversion, date/time
/calendars, directory/environment access, strings,
file access, Internet/network programming, etc.

xtklib Free C++ library for W indows and Unix

(Linux/BSD) with: streams, unicode strings,
sockets, file access, exceptions hierarchy, etc.

Free C++ Interpreters

c-smile C-SMILE is a scripting language, which inherits

it's syntax and structure from C, C++, Java(tm)
and JavaScript.

Ch A freeware C/C++ interpreter for cross-platform

scripting, shell programming, 2D/3D plotting,
numerical computing, and embedded scripting.
Suitable for: W indows, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris,
QNX, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.

CINT C/C++ interpreter suitable for Linux, HP-UX,

SunOS, Solaris, AIX, Alpha-OSF, IRIX, FreeBSD,
NetBSD, NEC EW S4800, NewsOS, BeBox,
HI-UX, W indows, MS-DOS, MacOS, VMS,
NextStep, Convex.

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Free C++ Tools

ClassBuilder A freeware CASE tool targeted at the C++

developer, running on W indows. It lets you
create, manipulate and navigate classes, class
relations, class members and class methods at a
high level of abstraction trough a graphical user
interface.

CodeSynthesis XSD An open-source, cross-platform W 3C XML

Schema to C++ data binding compiler. Provided
with an XML instance specification (XML
Schema), it generates C++ classes that represent
the given vocabulary as well as parsing and
serialization code.

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C++ Algorithms
A painless guide to CRC Famous paper on CRC by Ross Williams.

Anti-aliasing Tutorial + algorithms for anti-aliasing, mip

mapping, etc.

Codeguru Algorithms CodeGuru section containing articles on C++

& Formulas algorithms.

Cyclic Redundancy Check (1) A good article on CRC (cyclic redundancy check),
including source code.

Cyclic Redundancy Check (2) Tutorial and C++ implementation of a CRC

algorithm.

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Mersenne Twister An algorithm which provides for fast generation of

very high quality pseudorandom numbers. It has
been designed specifically to improve flaws found
in older random generators. The period is
2^19937-1, and it has a very high order of
dimensional equidistribution. It is also fast since it
avoids multiplication and division. The general
Mersenne Twister home page can be found here.

Sorting Algorithms Algorithms, analysis, and source code for: Bubble

sort, Heap sort, Insertion sort, Merge sort, Quick
sort, Selection sort, Shell sort.

Free C++ Tutorials & Resources

Building applications Online tutorial on how to create portable Linux

with the Linux applications, or applications which comply with
Standard Base the Linux Standard Base and therefore run on a
wide variety of Linux distributions.
See also Porting Applications to Linux Standard
Base Made Easy.

C programming.com Designed to help you learn the C or C++

programming languages, and provide you with C
and C++ programming language resources.

C++ FAQ Lite Frequently asked questions and popular topics

related to the C++ programming language.

C++ Home C++ code snipplets, forums, tutorials, blogs,

articles, directory, faqs, quizzes, etc.

C++ Reference Guide Very complete C++ reference guide.

C++ Resources Various development resources including a free

C++ Tutorial, a free W indows API tutorial, a
developers forum, and a free W indows
programming library (RSWL).

C-Scene A free online magazine devoted to C and C++

programming.

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C/C++ Programming Guide Two tutorials for C/C++; the first tutorial is
intended to help those that want to learn to
program in C or C++. The second is for the
experienced programmer who needs a quick
reference guide to programming techniques and
examples.

Cetus Links: C++ A multitude of useful C++ links.

Function pointer tutorials Syntax and code examples in both C and C++ of
how to define, assign an address or call a
function using a function pointer.

FunctionX C++ Tutorials Online C++ tutorials

int64.org Articles mostly related to C++ and 64 bit

computing.

Linux University A collaborative initiative by developers, designed

for developers for developers to share their knowledge on how to
create software on Linux. The content on this
open community site is geared towards showing
and doing using flash-based, interactive lessons,
rather than articles or lengthy documentation.

LSB Developer Network The Linux Standard Base developer network

enables application developers to target multiple
distributions of Linux with one software package
(building portable Linux applications),

Optimizing C++ Free online book with a practical, real-world

approach to program optimization using C++.
Many of the optimization techniques presented in
this book are derived from from the author's 30
years of experience as a programmer and from
reading academic journals,

Programming in C Large number of links and resources on C and

C++.

Smallcode A wealth of information on code optimization,

assembly language and C programming for
W in32.

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Standard Template Library Online reference for the C++ Standard Template
Programmer's Guide Library.

The C++ Programming Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ page containing many

Language useful links.

theForger's W in32 API Tutorial Tutorial on how to create programs using just
standard C++ and the W indows API.

Thinking in C++ Free Electronic tutorial on C++ programming.

Tutorial Guide An introduction to computing and the C++

to C++ Programming programming language. It will teach you how to
write, compile, execute and test simple computer
programs in C++.

Windows API Tutorials Tutorial on how to create programs using just

standard C++ and the W indows API.

Recommended C++ Books

The C++ Programming Excellent book. Highly recommended for those

Language seeking a thorough and comprehensive
understanding of the C++ programming language.
Not suitable for beginning programmers.

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