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Awesome C/C++

A curated list of awesome C/C++ frameworks, libraries, resources, and shiny things. Inspired by awesome-... stuff.

• Awesome C/C++
  • Standard Libraries
  • Frameworks
  • Audio
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Concurrency
  • Containers
  • Cryptography
  • Database
  • GUI
  • Graphics
  • Imaging
  • Internationalization
  • JSON
  • Logging
  • Machine Learning
  • Mocking
  • Multimedia
  • Networking
  • Serialization
  • Testing
  • Web Application Framework
  • XML
  • Etc.
• Software
  • Compilers
  • Integrated Development Environments
• Resources
  • C++ Websites
  • C++ Books
  • C++ Videos
• Contributing

Standard Libraries

• C++ Standard Library - A collection of classes and functions, which are written in the core language and part of the C++ ISO Standard itself.
• Standard Template Library - The Standard Template Library (STL).
• C POSIX library - A specification of a C standard library for POSIX systems.

Frameworks

C++ generic frameworks and libraries.

• Apache C++ Standard Library - A collection of algorithms, containers, iterators, and other fundamental components.
• ASL - Adobe Source Libraries provides peer-reviewed and portable C++ source libraries.
• Boost - A large collection of generic C++ libraries.
• BDE - The BDE Development Environment from Bloomberg Labs.
• Cinder - A community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding.
• Cxxomfort - A small, header-only library that backports to C++03 some of the nifty C++11 goodies.
• Dlib - A general purpose cross-platform C++ library designed using contract programming and modern C++ techniques.
• ffead-cpp - Framework for Enterprise Application Development.
• Folly - An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook.
• JUCE - An all-encompassing C++ class library for developing cross-platform software.
• LibSourcey - C++11 evented IO for real-time video streaming and high performance networking applications.
• LibU - A multiplatform utility library written in C.
• Loki - A C++ library of designs, containing flexible implementations of common design patterns and idioms.
• MiLi - Minimal headers-only C++ Library.
• openFrameworks - An open source C++ toolkit for creative coding.
• Qt - A cross-platform application and UI framework.
• Reason - A cross platform framework designed to bring the ease of use of Java, .Net, or Python to developers who require the performance and strength of C++.
• STXXL - Standard Template Library for Extra Large Data Sets.
• Ultimate++ - A C++ cross-platform rapid application development framework.
• Windows Template Library - A C++ library for developing Windows applications and UI components.
• Yomm11 - Open multi-methods for C++11.

##Artificial Intelligence

• Evolving Objects - A template-based, ANSI-C++ evolutionary computation library which helps you to write your own stochastic optimization algorithms insanely fast.
• Neu - A C++ 11 framework, collection of programming languages, and multipurpose software system designed for: the creation of artificial intelligence applications.

Concurrency

• Intel TBB - Intel® Threading Building Blocks.
• OpenMP - The OpenMP API.
• Thrust - A parallel algorithms library which resembles the C++ Standard Template Library (STL).
• HPX - A general purpose C++ runtime system for parallel and distributed applications of any scale.

Containers

• C++ B-tree - A template library that implements ordered in-memory containers based on a B-tree data structure.

Cryptography

• Crypto++ - A free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes.
• LibTomCrypt - A fairly comprehensive, modular and portable cryptographic toolkit.
• OpenSSL - a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source cryptography library.

GUI

Graphic User Interface

• GTK+ - A multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
• gtkmm - The official C++ interface for the popular GUI library GTK+.
• wxWidgets - a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other platforms with a single code base.
• Qwt - Qt Widgets for Technical Applications.
• QwtPlot3D - A feature-rich Qt/OpenGL-based C++ programming library, providing essentially a bunch of 3D-widgets.

Graphics

• Ogre 3D - One of the most popular open-source graphics rendering engines.

Internationalization

• IBM ICU - A set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support.
• gettext - GNU `gettext'.

JSON

• frozen - JSON parser and generator for C/C++.
• picojson - A header-file-only, JSON parser serializer in C++.

Machine Learning

• OpenCV - Open Computer Vision.
• Recommender - A C library for product recommendations/suggestions using collaborative filtering (CF).
• CCV - C-based/Cached/Core Computer Vision Library, A Modern Computer Vision Library.
• mlpack - A scalable c++ machine learning library.
• sofia-ml - The suite of fast incremental algorithms for machine learning.
• SHOGUN - The Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox.
• Caffe - A fast framework for neural networks.

Mocking

• googlemock - A library for writing and using C++ mock classes.

Multimedia

• SFML - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library.
• SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer.

Networking

• ACE - An OO Network Programming Toolkit in C++.
• Asio - A cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O programming.
• Casablanca - C++ REST SDK.
• cpp-netlib - A collection of open-source libraries for high level network programming.
• net_skeleton - TCP client/server library for C/C++.
• POCO - C++ class libraries and frameworks for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile and embedded systems.

Serialization

• cereal - A C++11 library for serialization.
• protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format.

Testing

• CppUnit - C++ port of JUnit.
• googletest - Google C++ Testing Framework.

Web Application Framework

• CppCMS - A Free High Performance Web Development Framework (not a CMS).
• Crow - Crow is C++ micro web framework (inspired by Python Flask).
• Wt - A C++ library for developing web applications.

Etc.

• SLDR - Super Light DNS Resolver.
• SLRE - Super Light Regular Expression library.

Software

Software for creating a development environment.

Compilers

List of C/C++ compilers

• Clang - Developed by Apple.
• GCC - GNU Compiler Collection.
• Intel C++ Compiler - Developed by Intel.
• Microsoft Visual C++ - MSVC, developed by Microsoft.

Integrated Development Environments

List of C/C++ nominal IDEs.

• Code::Blocks - A free C, C++ and Fortran IDE.
• Dev-C++ - A portable C/C++/C++11 IDE.
• Eclipse CDT - A fully functional C and C++ IDE based on the Eclipse platform.
• KDevelop - A free, open source IDE.
• Microsoft Visual Studio - An IDE from Microsoft.
• NetBeans - An IDE for developing primarily with Java, but also with other languages, in particular PHP, C/C++, and HTML5.
• Qt Creator - A cross-platform C++, JavaScript and QML IDE which is part of the SDK for the Qt.
• Xcode - Developed by Apple.

Resources

Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your C++ development skills and knowledge.

C++ Websites

Useful C++ related websites.

• C++ reference - C++98, C++03, C++11, C++14 reference.

C++ Books

Fantastic C++ related books.

• The C++ Annotations - An in-depth guide on C++, intended for people with a good knowledge of C who want to make the transition to C++.

C++ Articles

Fantastic C++ related articles.

• C++Now 2014 Presentations - Presentation materials presented at C++Now 2014.
• C++Now 2013 Presentations - Presentation materials presented at C++Now 2013.
• C++Now 2012 Presentations - Presentation materials presented at C++Now 2012.

C++ Videos

Fantastic C++ related videos.

Other Awesome Things

Collection of useful codes, snippets, ...

• algorithms - Algorithms & Data Structures in C++.
• c-algorithms - C algorithms library.
• C/C++ Awesome Pack - Contains some awesome c++ codes, packed in one.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.