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Awesome C/C++

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

Standard Libraries

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 L.P.
  • Cinder - A community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.
  • 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.

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

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.

Compilers

List of C/C++ compilers

Software

Software for creating a development environment.

Integrated Development Environments

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++ Books

Fantastic C++ related books.

C++ Articles

Fantastic C++ related articles.

C++ Videos

Fantastic C++ related videos.

Other Awesome Things

Collection of useful codes, snippets, ...

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.