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Free programming tools, interpreters and frameworks following the principle 'create once, compile anywhere' or 'create once, run anywhere'. This means that once you have created your program using one of the tools listed on this page, you can compile or run it on multiple platforms without too many adaptations. | ||||||||||
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| Free Cross-Platform Compilers | ||||||||||
| Code::Blocks Studio | A freeware open-source C++ IDE for Windows and Linux. It supports these compilers: GCC (MingW / Linux GCC), MSVC++, Digital Mars, Borland C++ 5.5, Open Watcom. | |||||||||
| Cygwin | Cygwin is a UNIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for Windows. It consists of two parts: A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a UNIX emulation layer providing substantial UNIX API functionality. A collection of tools, ported from UNIX, which provide UNIX/Linux look and feel. Compatible with Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP. | |||||||||
| Ecere | A free cross-platform IDE (designer, debugger, code editor) and SDK (GUI framework, 3D and socket programming, etc.) for creating software for Windows and Linux. Ecere introduces eC, an object oriented language derived from and fully compatible with C. | |||||||||
| Free Pascal | Freeware open-source 32bit and 64 Pascal compiler, available for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X/Darwin, Mac OS classic, DOS, Win32, Win64, WinCE, OS/2, Netware (libc and classic) and MorphOS. Supported processors: Intel x86, Amd64/x86_64, PowerPC, Sparc, 680x0. | |||||||||
| Oberon | Oberon is the name of a modern integrated software environment. It is a single-user,
multi-tasking system that runs on bare hardware or on top of a host operating system.
Oberon is also the name of a programming language in the Pascal/Modula tradition.
The Oberon project was launched in 1985 by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht. Although
the project was originally targeted towards in-house hardware, the language and system
have now been ported to many computer platforms and multiple CPU's. Freeware, Open Source. | |||||||||
| Revolution | Multi-platform programming tool implementing the the Mac HyperCard language. It enables you to create compiled applications for MAC OS X, classic Mac OS, Windows, Linux/Unix with native look and feel on all platforms. Avaiable editions: Free, Professional and Small Business editions. | |||||||||
| Ultimate++ | Ultimate++ consists of Set of cross-platform Windows 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 Windows and Linux. | |||||||||
| WideStudio | Free cross-platform IDE including application framework. Supports the platforms: Linux, MAC, Windows, Pocket PC, FreeBSD, Solaris, etc. and the languages: C++, Java, Python, Ruby, Ocaml. | |||||||||
| Free Cross-platform GUI Frameworks | ||||||||||
| The libraries in this section can be used in combination with C++ compilers on Unix/Linux, MAC and Windows. In this way, you can create one GUI application which can be compiled on multiple operating systems. | ||||||||||
| FLTK | A cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX/Linux, Windows, 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. | |||||||||
| GTK+ | A multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces in C++, Perl and Python. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off projects to complete application suites. It is available under the GNU LGPL license, allowing it to be used by all developers, including those developing proprietary non open-source software, without any license fees or royalties. | |||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||
| The GUI Toolkit, Framework Page | A comprehensive reference on toolkits for building graphical user interfaces (GUIs), with emphasis on resources for Free Software (Open Source) | |||||||||
| 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 Windows platforms, and OS/2. | |||||||||
| Whisper2 | C++ application framework for the Mac, Unix and Windows. | |||||||||
| wxWidgets | 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, Windows, BeOS or Unix/Linux. | |||||||||
| Free Cross-platform Libraries | ||||||||||
| Most of the libraries in this section can be used in combination with C++ compilers on Unix/Linux, MAC and Windows. | ||||||||||
| Amanith Framework | A cross-platform (Linux, Win32, 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. | |||||||||
| Boost | Free portable C++ source libraries extending the standard library: streams, buffers, concurrency, regex, date/time, etc. | |||||||||
| FMod | FMOD is a cross platform audio library to let you easily implement the latest audio technologies into your software. | |||||||||
| FreeType | A free, high-quality, and portable font engine, which supports True Type and Open Type Fonts as well as unicode. | |||||||||
| International components for Unicode | Widely used set of C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode support; open source. | |||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||
| Simple Direct Media Library | A cross-platform C/C++ multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. | |||||||||
| The Standard Function Library | Freeware C++ library providing functions covering a wide range of areas, such as: compression, encryption, encoding, conversion, date/time/calendars, directory/environment access, strings, file access, Internet/network programming, etc. | |||||||||
| WenQuanYi | Intends to provide the open-source community with the most complete, standard compliant, high-quality Chinese fonts and resources. TrueType and bitmap fonts at various sizes/styles are developed to be freely available to users. | |||||||||
| xtklib | Free C++ library for Windows and Unix (Linux/BSD) with: streams, unicode strings, sockets, file access, exceptions hierarchy, etc. | |||||||||
 TreePad: have you tried it? See here all it can do for you! | ||||||||||
| Free Multi-Platform Interpreters | ||||||||||
| Ch | A freeware C/C++ interpreter for cross-platform scripting, shell programming, 2D/3D plotting, numerical computing, and embedded scripting. Suitable for: Windows, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, QNX, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. | |||||||||
| Chipmunk Basic | Traditional, console mode BASIC interpreter. Can run many old BASIC programs with little or no modification. Versions are available for MacOS, Palm, Linux, Windows, SUN, HPUX, SGI Irix. | |||||||||
| Java | Designed by SUN. Probably the most famous of all cross-platform interpreted languages. | |||||||||
| Python | Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.
It is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python combines remarkable power with very clear syntax. It has modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. There are interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk, Mac, MFC). New built-in modules are easily written in C or C++. The Python implementation is portable: it runs on many brands of UNIX, on Windows, DOS, OS/2, Mac, Amiga, etc. Python is copyrighted but freely usable and distributable, even for commercial use. | |||||||||
| Rebol | Free for non-commercial use.
Very easy to use and elegant interpreted language
useful for creating Web applications.
Rebol supports object oriented programming.
It includes 14 Internet protocols, like HTTP, FTP, CGI, SMTP, POP, etc. Rebol runs on more than 20 platforms, which means that the scripts listed on the Rebol site will not only be able to run on Windows but will also run on Solaris, Irix, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSDi, BeOS, Mac, AIX, HPUX, Amiga, Linux, etc. Rebol/Command, (which is not free) provides additional features: Direct database access to: Oracle 8 (Windows, Solaris Sparc, and Linux libc6 systems) MySQL 3, ODBC access (from Windows) to: Access, Excel, MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL. Also: FastCGI, SSL, TLS, HTTPS, SSLv2, SSLv3 and TLSv1, DES, 3DES, ARCFOUR, RSA keys and DSA/DH keys, Blowfish, Rijndael/AES. | |||||||||
| Squeak | Squeak, a free, open, and portable Smalltalk-80 interpreter. Has a virtual machine which is also written in Smalltalk. A translation utility is available to convert the Smalltalk source code into C source code for high speed performance. Available for Windows, Mac, Unix, and other operating systems. | |||||||||
| Tcl/Tk | Open source scripting language for a variety of platforms, such as Windows, MAC, Linux, Amiga, Solaris. See also The Tcl'ers Wiki | |||||||||
| Free Multi-Platform Databases | ||||||||||
| Berkeley DB | Open Source embedded database system. It consists of a toolkit that provides high-performance built-in database support for desktop and server applications. Access through B+tree, Extended Linear Hashing, Fixed and Variable-length records, and Queues. No support for SQL. Also: transactions, database recovery, online backups, and separate access to locking, logging and shared memory caching subsystems. Supports C, C++, Java, Tcl, Perl, and Python APIs. Runs on Windows 95/98/NT/2000, VxWorks, Linux and various other types of Unix. Freeware when distributed with non-commercial or open-source applications. | |||||||||
| Interbase | Open source, freeware version of Interbase Interbase is a relatively small yet powerful database (12 MB, which is not much compared to Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase, etc.), Versions available for Windows, Linux and Solaris. Free security patches. | |||||||||
| MySQL | Well-known freeware, multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server.
Versions available for Win95/Win98/NT, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, AIX, SunOS, etc.
JDBC drivers available. Freeware under the GPL license. | |||||||||
| Related Freebyte Pages | ||||||||||
| Free Java Programming | Free Java IDE's, compilers, object libraries, distribution and install tools, database systems, and tutorials. | |||||||||
| Free Web-Programming | Free Web programming languages, free server-side scripting, client-side scripting, Web scripts, Web programming tutorials and resources. | |||||||||
| Free Pascal Programming | Free pascal compilers, tutorials, tools and resources. | |||||||||
| Free C++ (and C) Programming | Free C++ IDE's, compilers, libraries, tools, resources and tutorials for Linux/Unix, Windows, MAC, etc. | |||||||||
| Free Databases | Freeware and open-source SQL database systems, freeware database tools, open-source (SQL) database libraries for Java, C++, Delphi. | |||||||||
| Free Operating Systems | Free operating systems, such as: Linux, FreeBSD, Windows clones, emulators and much more. Also: interesting alternative commercial operating systems. | |||||||||
| Free Delphi Programming | Free Delphi compilers, components, programming, libraries, tools and resources. | |||||||||
| Free Assembler Programming | Free tools for the assembler programmer for a variety of platforms and processors. | |||||||||
| Free Basic Programming | Free Basic IDE's and Compilers, free Basic Interpreters, tutorials and resources. | |||||||||
| Free Cobol Programming | Free Cobol compilers, tutorials and resources. | |||||||||
| Free Help File Authoring | Free help-file authoring tools and programs to create WinHelp and HTMLHelp files. | |||||||||
| Free Programming Tools | Free programming tools for Windows, Linux, etc. Free C++, C, Delphi, Basic, Assembler, Cobol, Pascal, Java, SQL, Databases; links to free compilers, databases, interpreters, IDE's, installers, components, libraries, languages, helpfile generators and more. | |||||||||
| Free Unicode and Multi-lingual Programming tools | Free C++, Delphi and Java Unicode Libraries, free fonts and font-engines, free unicode resources and related information. | |||||||||
| Free Web-Programming | Free Web programming languages, free server-side scripting, client-side scripting, Web scripts, Web programming tutorials and resources. | |||||||||
| Free Website Tools | Free Website tools: Web counters, Web statistics, polls to put on your site, guest books to put on your site, URL forwarding services, site search engines, HTML editors, HTML and link validation tools, tutorials, resources, etc. | |||||||||
| Free Home pages | Publish your own Web pages for free! Find the best service to host your home page. Create your Web page without any knowledge of HTML. Free services which enable you to run your own CGI scripts (PHP, ASP, Perl, etc.). | |||||||||
| Information wanted! | ||||||||||
| If you know of any good free programming tools, like compilers, databases, assemblers/disassemblers, components, libraries, languages, online books, help tools, icons, websites, which are not listed in the Freebyte programming section, please let us know! | ||||||||||
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