- Provides a repository for free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. The emphasis is on libraries which work well with the C++ standard library.
ACDK - Artefaktur Component Development Kit - - Platform independent C++ component framework similar to Java or .NET (reflection, threading, Unicode, garbage collection, io, net, util, xml, etc.) with integration of Java, Perl, Python, Tcl, Lisp, COM and CORBA. [Open source, LGPL or Qt Public License.
Apache C++ Standard Library - - The goal is to provide a free implementation of the ISO/IEC 14882 international standard for C++ that enables source code portability and consistent behavior of programs across all major hardware implementations, operating systems, and compilers, open source and commercial alike. [Open Source.
Available C++ Libraries FAQ - - Includes a list of available C++ libraries, both public domain and commercial.
Bioinformatics Template Library (BTL) - - Provides the generic mathematical components that will allow programmers to more rapidly construct applications that model biological entities.
BitMagic - - A C++ classes library implementing bitvectors with several types of on-the-fly, adaptive compression. Can be used in databases and search systems. [Open source, MIT License.
The Boost Graph Library (BGL) - - General purpose, generic C++ library for graph data structures and graph algorithms.
Botan - - A crypto library that provides a wide variety of cryptographic algorithms, formats, and protocols. [Open Source, BSD.
BuDDy - - An efficient and simple to use Binary Decision Diagram (ROBDD) package for C and C++.
The C++ Portable Components - - Class libraries for developing network-centric, portable applications in C++. The classes cover functionality like threads, thread synchronization, filesystem access, streams, shared libraries and class loading, sockets and network protocols, as well as an XML parser. By Applied Informatics. [Open source.
C++ Portable Types Library (PTypes) - - A simple alternative to the STL plus portable multithreading and networking. Compiles under modern Unix and Windows systems. [Open-source, zlib-like license.
C++ Str Library - - String and character manipulation library for Windows and various gcc-supported platforms. Provides highly optimized code, with support for multithreaded environments and Unicode. Regular expressions support. [Shareware, full-featured evaluation version with full sources.
C++ Threads - - The aim of this library is to provide the programmer with an easy to use class, that can be further inherited to provide a rich set of threaded functionality rarely seen in a Linux environment.
Chilkat C++ Libraries - - A static libraries for Visual C++ and C++ Builder developers: zip, e-mail, encryption, S/MIME, XML.[Shareware.
CodeCogs - - An open source numerical library for mathematician, engineers and scientists who work in C++. Users can donate or licence (for commercial uses) their own code, request components, or bid to develop requested components.
Codemesh JMS Courier - - Lets you integrate C++ into any Java Message Service (JMS) vendor environment. [Commercial.
Common Text Transformation Library - - Library of C++ classes and functions to parse and modify STL strings. CTTL substring classes may be compared, inserted, replaced, and parsed with EBNF grammars. Compiled program implements recursive descent LL(INF) parser. [Open source, GPL.
ConfigLib - - A C++ library designed to read/write configuration files. Allows reading and writing of a configuration file with minimal disruption of the data and any comments; Ensures that developers adopt an all or nothing stance; makes adding a new configuration setting as simple as declaring a variable, even if it is a complex object. [Open Source, BSD.
Crypto++ - - Free library of cryptographic schemes: includes ciphers, message authentication codes, one-way hash functions, public-key cryptosystems, and key agreement schemes. [Open Source.
DateLib - - Platform independent C/C++ library for date and time calendric calculations. (by Hofmann Software Engineering International.
dlib C++ library - - A collection of various classes. Sockets, threading, GUI, and directory browsing API. Also many container classes and other miscellaneous items such as a big integer and lossless data compression objects. [Open source.
Ebsotech IX SDK - - A cross-platform C/C++ library provides systems developers with the possibility to develop localized applications for robust data processing simultaneously for several target environments and language areas. Memory and process management, thread locking and sync, networking (includes HTTP 1.1 and GTP/GTP). Localisation tool. Byte order and 32-/64-bit transparent for Windows and Linux/Unix. [Commercial.
GNU Aspell - - A library providing spell checking. [Open source, LGPL.
GNU Nana - - Library of many tested, proven methods to raise reliability of C & C++ code. Includes: extended logging, assertion checking, Design by Contract: DbC. Supports realtime measurements, making performance statistics for code fragments, and tracing program execution without modifying code.
GOBLIN Graph Library - - Goblin is a full-featured tool chain for handling graphs. The project provides code from the following areas: Optimization, Layout, Composition, File import and export, and Manipulation. [Open Source, LGPL.
html++ CGI Class Library - - Encapsulates HTML tags and features. Manages dynamic Web page generation, CGI and forms processing, cookies, http file uploads, and sessions.
ILOG Views C++ Graphics Components - - A visualization toolkit for developing comprehensive, interactive displays that help users supervise and monitor business information.
Innodyne Corp. - - Provides OTS MIL-STD-2045 47001B/C, VMF and MIL-STD-6040 USMTF encoder decoders as OS and platform independent C++ libaraies.
Inti - - Integrated C++ Foundation Libraries, including Inti::GTK, a C++ GTK+ binding (No longer an active project).
JUCE - - A C++ toolkit providing a complete set of fundamental classes for building applications for Windows/MacOSX/Linux. It covers GUIs, containers, audio, midi, XML, vector graphics, file/network handling. [Open source, GPL or commercial license.
Led Rich Text C++ Class Library - - A portable, cross-platform C++ library designed to add various kinds of word processing (rich text) or text editing capabilities to your application.
LEDA - - Library of Efficient Data types and Algorithms. Has all relevant algorithm building blocks in easy-to-use, efficient form for objects such as graphs, sequences, dictionaries, trees, points, flows, matchings, segments, shortest paths. [Algorithmic Solutions Software GmbH.
LFC - - A general C++ class library/framework. [Open Source, LGPL.
Libexcel - - Provides an easy way to generate Excel Spreadsheets (xls-files) in custom applications without Microsoft Excel. Supports writing text, numbers, formulas, hyperlinks and images to cells with various formatting options. Available as a static library for Visual Studio and gcc/Linux.
Libsigc++ - - Implements a full callback system for use in widget libraries, abstract interfaces, and general programming. [LGPL.
libwpd - - A C++ library for importing and exporting WordPerfect documents. Features, screenshots, download and developer information. [LGPL licence.
macstl - - A Macintosh optimized C++ source library. It include std::valarray optimized for the Altivec execution engine; std::vector partially specialized on the Mach allocator, for OS-level copy-on-write; a convenient and efficient wrapper for Altivec data types; COM clients and servers for writing CFPlugIns. [Commercial, open source.
Mersenne Twister - - Freeware C++ implementation of the famous Mersenne Twister pseudo-random number generator algorithm, known as one of the best generators, with a period of 2^19937-1. Written in 100% standard ISO C++, free to use.
ObjexxFCL - - A C++ class library to support integration and migration of Fortran to C++. ObjexxFCL includes Fortran-compatible array, string, and intrinsic function support.
Odin Plus Plus (OPP) - - Includes base class components, collections, I/O classes, network and Internet classes, object database support, and thread library.
Open EzBasic - - A C++ based library, that can be used to make programs using functions as in VB. The library has 25 classes ranging from GUI, Threads, String, Active-X. Simple way to convert VB code to C++. [Open source, Qt Public License (QPL).
OpenTop C++ Library - - A cross-platform C++ library providing high-performance and portable classes for multi-threading, I/O, networking, Unicode and XML parsing. [Commercial.
OSE - - Generic application framework suitable for constructing general purpose applications, distributed systems and web based services.
ParaTek - - A C++ toolkit which enables developers to created distributed peer to peer solutions using agent engineering.
P::Classes - - A high performance C++ application framework which provides many classes needed for real-world application development, emphasing on ease of use, size and stability. [Open Source, LGPL.
POST++ - - Provides a simple persistent storage, making objects persistent with no overhead on accessing them at runtime.
Reason C++ Framework - - A cross platform C++ framework with support for sockets, files, streams, encoding, compression, encryption, threading, times/dates, networking, URLs, http, XML, XPath, collections, generics and databases.
Reflex - Reflection for C++ - - A non-intrusive enhancement of C++ to add runtime reflection capabilities. [Open source, LGPL.
RudeServer C++ Libraries - - C++ CGI Parser, C++Config File, C++ Socket, C++ Database libraries. [Commercial.
Script Plus Plus library - - C++ class library which provides a partially-compatible replacement for the well-known string class, which is capable in the most popular operations on strings such as breaking down to words/tokens, conversion to numbers. [Open source, LGPL.
s11n - - (short for "serialization") An STL-based C++ library for serializing PODs, STL containers and client-defined types.
SOL++2000 - - a free C++ class library for Microsoft Windows. All source files of the library and a lot of sample programs are available.
SourcePro C++ - - A set of cross-platform C++ development components complete with documentation, source code and support. The set of four SourcePro components are: SourcePro Core, SourcePro DB, SourcePro Net, and SourcePro Analysis.
Standard J2K Library - - A completely portable C++ library, to provide a standard set of classes similar to Java Common API. [Open Source, LGPL.
STLport - - An implementation of the C++ Standard Library. [Open Source.
STLSoft - - Provides freely available STL-like extensions, including STL-style wrappers for common operating system and framework APIs (such as Windows, Unix, COM, MFC, ATL).
StreamModule - - Library designed to simplify writing distributed programs. Instead of attempting to hide asynchronous behavior behind a synchronous facade, it attempts to make it easier to write programs that deal with asynchronous behavior.
STXXL - - An implementation of the C++ standard template library STL for external memory (out-of-core) computations, containers and algorithms that can process huge volumes of data that only fit on disks. [Open source, GPL.
Sweet Persist - - A C++ serialization library that provides serialization of objects to and from XML and binary formats. It requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Boost.
ting - threading library - - A cross platform C++ wrapper for threading (thread, mutex, semaphore, condition variable, message queue and message). [Open Source.
txObject ATK - - A collection of platform-independent C++ class libraries that provides a five-layer framework containing an Object Library, IO and Timers, Threads, Inter-Process Communication, and Distributed Object Communication.
UTF8-CPP - - A simple, portable and lightweight library for handling UTF-8 encoded strings in C++. [Open Source.
Visibility for C++ - - Visualizing C++ object systems in real-time. Supports the visualization of all the fundamental C++ data types. Enables dynamic GUI's (Graphical User Interfaces) to be created without the need for a single line of UI code. By Outerface Technologies Inc.
VXL (the Vision-something-Libraries) - - A collection of C++ libraries designed for computer vision research. Includes imaging, geometry, numerics, streaming I/O, basic templates, posix. VXL is written in ANSI/ISO C++ and is designed to be portable over many platforms.
XParam - - Parameter handling library. Extendable, type-safe, non-intrusive, object-oriented tool for general-purpose object serialization in C++. Good for parsing command-line parameters, cross-program and cross-platform communication, object streams, and as a plug-in framework (using polymorphism).
ZThreads - - An advanced object-oriented, cross-platform C++ threading and synchronization library. [GPL.
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