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
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Asynchronous Event Loop
  • Audio
  • Compression
  • Concurrency
  • Containers
  • Cryptography
  • Database
  • Debug
  • Game Engine
  • GUI
  • Graphics
  • Imaging
  • Internationalization
  • JSON
  • Logging
  • Machine Learning
  • Mocking
  • Multimedia
  • Networking
  • Physics
  • Scripting
  • Serialization
  • Web Application Framework
  • XML
  • Etc.
• Software
  • Compilers
  • Integrated Development Environments
• Resources
  • C++ Websites
  • C++ Books
  • C++ Videos
• Other Awesome Lists
• Contributing

Standard Libraries

C++ Standard Library - including STL Containers, STL Aglorithm, STL Functional etc.

• 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.
• libPhenom - libPhenom is an eventing framework for building high performance and high scalability systems in C.
• 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.

Asynchronous Event Loop

• libev - A full-featured and high-performance event loop that is loosely modelled after libevent, but without its limitations and bugs.
• libevent - An event notification library.
• libuv - Cross-platform asychronous I/O.

Audio

Audio, Sound, Music, Digitized Voice Libraries

• Maximilian - C++ Audio and Music DSP Library.

Compression

Compression and Archiving Libraries

• bzip2 - A freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor.
• LZ4 - Extremely Fast Compression algorithm.
• LZMA - The default and general compression method of 7z format.
• miniz - Single C source file Deflate/Inflate compression library with zlib-compatible API, ZIP archive reading/writing, PNG writing.
• Minizip - Zlib with latest bug fixes that supports PKWARE disk spanning, AES encryption, and IO buffering.
• Snappy - A fast compressor/decompressor.
• ZLib - A very compact compression library for data streams.
• ZZIPlib - Provides read access on ZIP-archives.

Concurrency

• Boost.Compute - A C++ GPU Computing Library for OpenCL.
• Bolt - A C++ template library optimized for GPUs.
• Intel TBB - Intel® Threading Building Blocks.
• OpenCL - The open standard for parallel programming of heterogeneous systems.
• 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.
• VexCL - A C++ vector expression template library for OpenCL/CUDA.

Containers

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

Cryptography

Cryptography and Encryption Libraries

• 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.

Database

Database Libraries, SQL Servers, ODBC Drivers, and Tools

• hiberlite - C++ Object-relational mapping for sqlite3.
• SQLite - A completely embedded, full-featured relational database in a few 100k that you can include right into your project.

Debug

Debugging Libraries, Memory Leak and Resource Leak Detection, Unit Testing

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

Game Engine

• Errlicht - An open source high performance realtime 3D engine written in C++.
• Polycode - Open-Source Framework for creating games in C++ (with Lua bindings)..

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+.
• Ncurses - A terminal user interfaces.
• 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 - A scene-oriented, real-time, flexible 3D rendering engine (as opposed to a game engine) written in C++.
• Panda3D - A framework for 3D rendering and game development for Python and C++ .
• Skia - A 2D Graphics Library.

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++.
• Jansson - C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data.
• json11 - A tiny JSON library for C++11.
• picojson - A header-file-only, JSON parser serializer in C++.
• YAJL - A fast streaming JSON parsing library in C.

Machine Learning

• OpenCV - Open Computer Vision.
• Recommender - 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.
• Muduo - A C++ non-blocking network library for multi-threaded server in Linux.
• net_skeleton - TCP client/server library for C/C++.
• Onion - HTTP server library in C designed to be lightweight and easy to use.
• POCO - C++ class libraries and frameworks for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile and embedded systems.
• WebSocket++ - C++/Boost Asio based websocket client/server library.

Physics

Dynamics simulation engines

• Box2D - A 2D physics engine for games.
• ofxBox2d - openFrameworks wrapper for Box2D.
• Bullet - A 3D physics engine for games.
• LiquidFun - A 2D physics engine for games.

Scripting

• ChaiScript - An easy to use embedded scripting language for C++.
• Lua - A minimal and fast scripting engine for configuration files and basic application scripting.
• V8 - A fast JavaScript by Google engine similar to WebKit's JavaScriptCore.
• SWIG - a wrapper/interface Generator that let you link your c++ code to Javascript, Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl and Ruby.

Serialization

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

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.

• C++ Format - Small, safe and fast formatting library for C++.
• cxx-prettyprint - A pretty printing library for C++ containers.
• DynaPDF - An easy-to-use PDF generation library.
• HTTP Parser - A http request/response parser for C.
• Serial Communication Library - Cross-platform, Serial Port library written in C++.
• SDS - Simple Dynamic Strings library for C.
• Simbody - High-performance C++ multibody dynamics/physics library for simulating articulated biomechanical and mechanical systems like vehicles, robots, and the human skeleton.
• SLDR - Super Light DNS Resolver.
• SLRE - Super Light Regular Expression library.
• Stage - Mobile robot simulator.
• ZBar - A barcode scanner library, which allows to scan photos/images/video streams for barcodes and return their value.

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++.
• Free C Books - vhf/free-programming-books/C.
• Free C++ Books - vhf/free-programming-books/C++.
• The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List - .

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.

• Awesome C Programming Tutorials in Hi Def [HD] - A collection of detailed C Programming Language Tutorials for Beginners and New Programmers.
• C++ - by VoidRealms.
• C++ Qt Programming - by VoidRealms.
• C++ Programming Tutorials Playlist - thenewboston Official Buckys C++ Programming Tutorials Playlist.
• C++ Programming Tutorials from thenewboston - These are all of thenewboston's C++ programming tutorials.
• C++ GUI with Qt Playlist - Official Playlist for thenewboston C++ GUI with Qt tutorials.
• C Programming Tutorials - All of thenewboston's C programming tutorials are right here.

Other Awesome Projects

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.

Other Awesome Lists

Other amazingly awesome lists

• lists - List of (awesome) lists curated on GitHub
• awesome-awesomeness - A curated list of awesome awesomeness.
• awesome - A curated list of awesome lists.
• free-programming-books - List of Freely Available Programming Books
• papers-we-love - Papers from the computer science community to read and discuss.
• awesome-php - Awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things.
• awesome-python - Awesome Python frameworks, libraries and software.
• awesome-sysadmin - Awesome open source sysadmin resources
• awesome-talks - A lot of screencasts, recordings of user group gatherings and conference talks available online.
• github-cheat-sheet - A list of cool features of Git and GitHub.
• ToolsOfTheTrade - Tools of The Trade, from Hacker News.
• cheatsheets.org - The largest collection of reference cards for developers.
• cheat-sheets.org - All cheat sheets, round-ups, quick reference cards, quick reference guides and quick reference sheets in one page.
• thefreecountry.com - A collection of free programming resources, free webmasters' resources, free security resources and free utilities.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.