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    libsdl-android

    libsdl-android

    SDL library for Android, including several games.

    Port of SDL library to Android mobile platform. There are also several games inside the repository, along with their sources and build files. Both SDL 1.2 and 1.3/2.0 versions are supported (1.3/2.0 support is experimental) Sources are at https://github.com/pelya/commandergenius
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    Downloads: 4,638 This Week
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    REFramework

    REFramework

    Scripting platform, modding framework and VR support for RE Engine

    A mod framework, scripting platform, and modding tool for RE Engine games. Inspired by and uses code from Kanan. Supports Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil 7, Resident Evil Village, Devil May Cry 5, Monster Hunter Rise. Lua Scripting API (All games), VR, Generic 6DOF VR support for all games, motion controls for RE2/RE3 (RE7 and RE8 motion controls are still WIP!), first person (RE2, RE3), free camera (All games), scene timescale (All games), manual flashlight (RE2, RE3, RE8), FOV slider & vignette disabler (RE2, RE3, RE8).
    Downloads: 125 This Week
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    Selenium

    Selenium

    Browser automation framework and ecosystem

    Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should) also be automated as well. If you want to create robust, browser-based regression automation suites and tests, scale and distribute scripts across many environments, then you want to use Selenium WebDriver, a collection of language specific bindings to drive a browser - the way it is meant to be driven. If you want to create quick bug reproduction scripts, create scripts to aid in automation-aided exploratory testing, then you want to use Selenium IDE; a Chrome and Firefox add-on that will do simple record-and-playback of interactions with the browser. If you want to scale by distributing and running tests on several machines and manage multiple environments from a central point.
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    MAME

    MAME

    MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework

    MAME's purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important "vintage" software from being lost and forgotten. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. The fact that the software is usable serves primarily to validate the accuracy of the documentation (how else can you prove that you have recreated the hardware faithfully?). Over time, MAME (originally stood for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) absorbed the sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), so MAME now documents a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators, in addition to the arcade video games that were its initial focus. The MAME project as a whole is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, 2 (GPL-2.0), since it contains code made available under multiple GPL-compatible licenses.
    Downloads: 61 This Week
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    wxWidgets

    wxWidgets

    A cross-platform GUI library

    wxWidgets is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. It has popular language bindings for Python, Perl, Ruby and many other languages, and unlike other cross-platform toolkits, wxWidgets gives applications a truly native look and feel because it uses the platform's native API rather than emulating the GUI. It's also extensive, free, open-source and mature.
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    Downloads: 221 This Week
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    Final Cut

    Final Cut

    A text-based widget toolkit

    Library for creating terminal applications with text-based widgets. FINAL CUT is a C++ class library and widget toolkit with full mouse support for creating a text-based user interface. The library supports the programmer to develop an application for the text console. It allows the simultaneous handling of multiple text windows on the screen. The structure of the Qt framework was originally the inspiration for the C++ class design of FINAL CUT. It provides common controls like dialog boxes, push buttons, check boxes, radio buttons, input lines, list boxes, status bars and so on. FINAL CUT uses a virtual terminal to print character via an update method on the screen. It provides (as an overlying layer) virtual windows for the realization of window movements. The update methods only transfer differences to the virtual terminal or physical screen.
    Downloads: 49 This Week
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    MediaPipe

    MediaPipe

    Cross-platform, customizable ML solutions for live and streaming media

    MediaPipe offers open-source cross-platform, customizable ML solutions for live and streaming media. Provides segmentation masks for prominent humans in the scene. MediaPipe Face Mesh is a face geometry solution that estimates 468 3D face landmarks in real-time even on mobile devices. It employs machine learning (ML) to infer the 3D surface geometry, requiring only a single camera input without the need for a dedicated depth sensor. Utilizing lightweight model architectures together with GPU acceleration throughout the pipeline, the solution delivers real-time performance-critical for live experiences. Human pose estimation from video plays a critical role in various applications such as quantifying physical exercises, sign language recognition, and full-body gesture control. For example, it can form the basis for yoga, dance, and fitness applications. It can also enable the overlay of digital content and information on top of the physical world in augmented reality.
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    OWLNext: C++ Application Framework

    OWLNext: C++ Application Framework

    Borland's Object Windows Library for the modern age

    An extensive update of Borland's Object Windows Library (OWL) for writing GUI applications in standard C++ on Microsoft Windows.
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    Downloads: 167 This Week
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    Grassroots DICOM

    Grassroots DICOM

    Cross-platform DICOM implementation

    Grassroots DiCoM is a C++ library for DICOM medical files. It is accessible from Python, C#, Java and PHP. It supports RAW, JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG-LS, RLE and deflated transfer syntax. It comes with a super fast scanner implementation to quickly scan hundreds of DICOM files. It supports SCU network operations (C-ECHO, C-FIND, C-STORE, C-MOVE). PS 3.3 & 3.6 are distributed as XML files. It also provides PS 3.15 certificates and password based mecanism to anonymize and de-identify DICOM datasets.
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    Downloads: 138 This Week
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    threadpool is a cross-platform C++ thread pool library. It provides a convenient way for dispatching asynchronous tasks and can be easily customized. threadpool is based on the high-quality Boost source libraries.
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    Downloads: 182 This Week
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    U++

    U++

    C++ framework with an ide.

    U++ is BSD licensed C++ cross-platform rapid application development framework focused on programmers productivity without sacrificing runtime performance. Based on strictly deterministic design it provides an alternative to GC collected platforms.
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    Downloads: 111 This Week
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    QP Real-Time Event Frameworks & Tools

    QP Real-Time Event Frameworks & Tools

    Real-Time Event Frameworks based on active objects & state machines

    QP real-time event frameworks (RTEFs) provide lightweight, modern, event-driven architecture based on asynchronous Active Objects (Actors) and Hierarchical State Machines. The matching QM model-based design tool and other host-based tools complement the QP frameworks by supporting graphical modeling, code generation, software tracing, and unit testing for event-driven embedded software. Visit https://www.state-machine.com for more information. The QP RTEFs can run on bare-metal microcontrollers, replacing a traditional RTOS. The frameworks contain a selection of built-in real-time kernels (RTOS kernels), such as the cooperative QV kernel, the preemptive non-blocking QK kernel, and the unique preemptive, dual-mode (blocking/non-blocking) QXK kernel. Native QP ports and ready-to-use examples are provided for ARM Cortex-M (M0/M0+/M3/M4/M7/M33/...) as well as other CPUs. The QP RTEFs can also work with many traditional RTOSes and General-Purpose OSes, such as Linux and Windows.
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    Downloads: 102 This Week
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    React Native for Windows

    React Native for Windows

    A framework for building native Windows apps with React

    Bring your React Native apps to some of the most powerful devices out there. Take your apps across PC, Xbox, Surface Tablets, and dual-screens with our robust Windows extension to React Native. Extend your desktop experience to more than just Windows! Try out our fully supported macOS extension to React Native. React Native for Windows + macOS brings React Native support for the Windows 10 SDK as well as the macOS 10.13 SDK. With this, you can use JavaScript to build native Windows apps for all devices supported by Windows 10 including PCs, tablets, 2-in-1s, Xbox, Mixed reality devices, etc., as well as the macOS desktop and laptop ecosystems. Some build-time tools will send telemetry to Microsoft by default. No telemetry is collected or transmitted in the final app. You can prevent the telemetry from being sent by using the --no-telemetry command line option. See the --help command or README file for more details.
    Downloads: 21 This Week
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    Crow Framework

    Crow Framework

    A Fast and Easy to use microframework for the web

    A Fast and Easy to use microframework for the web. Crow is a C++ framework for creating HTTP or Websocket web services. It uses routing similar to Python's Flask which makes it easy to use. It is also extremely fast, beating multiple existing C++ frameworks as well as non-C++ frameworks. Crow is provided free of charge courtesy of everyone who is donating their money, time, and expertise to keep it going. The 1000-mile journey begins with a single step. Get started by installing Crow and building you first application. Or go through the guides if you're stuck somewhere. Easy Routing (similar to flask). Type-safe Handlers. Blazingly fast (see this benchmark and this benchmark). Built-in JSON support. Mustache-based templating library (crow::mustache). Header-only library (single header file available). Middleware support for extensions. HTTP/1.1 and Websocket support. Multi-part request and response support. Uses modern C++ (11/14).
    Downloads: 19 This Week
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    GoogleTest

    GoogleTest

    Google Testing and Mocking Framework

    GoogleTest is Google's C++ mocking and test framework. It's used by many internal projects at Google, as well as a number of notable projects such as The Chromium projects, the OpenCV computer vision library, and the LLVM compiler. This GoogleTest project is actually a union of what used to be two separate projects: the old GoogleTest and GoogleMock, an extension of GoogleTest for writing and using C++ mock classes. Since they were so closely related, they were merged to create an even better GoogleTest. GoogleTest features an xUnit test framework, a rich set of assertions, user-defined assertions, death tests, among many others. It's been used on a variety of platforms, including Cygwin, Symbian, MinGW and PlatformIO.
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    MNN

    MNN

    MNN is a blazing fast, lightweight deep learning framework

    MNN is a highly efficient and lightweight deep learning framework. It supports inference and training of deep learning models, and has industry leading performance for inference and training on-device. At present, MNN has been integrated in more than 20 apps of Alibaba Inc, such as Taobao, Tmall, Youku, Dingtalk, Xianyu and etc., covering more than 70 usage scenarios such as live broadcast, short video capture, search recommendation, product searching by image, interactive marketing, equity distribution, security risk control. In addition, MNN is also used on embedded devices, such as IoT. MNN Workbench could be downloaded from MNN's homepage, which provides pretrained models, visualized training tools, and one-click deployment of models to devices. Android platform, core so size is about 400KB, OpenCL so is about 400KB, Vulkan so is about 400KB. Supports hybrid computing on multiple devices. Currently supports CPU and GPU.
    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    Squirrel

    Squirrel

    An installation and update framework for Windows desktop apps

    Squirrel is both a set of tools and a library, to completely manage both installation and updating your Desktop Windows application, written in either C# or any other language (i.e., Squirrel can manage native C++ applications). Squirrel uses NuGet packages to create installation and update packages, which means that you probably already know most of what you need to create an installer. Windows apps should be as fast and as easy to install and update as apps like Google Chrome. From an app developer's side, it should be really straightforward to create an installer for my app, and publish updates to it, without having to jump through insane hoops. Refer to our full list of goals for integrating, packaging, distributing, installing, and updating. See Contributing for additional information on building and contributing to Squirrel.
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    reacTIVision
    reacTIVision is a computer vision framework for the fast and robust tracking of markers attached on physical objects, and the creation of multi-touch surfaces. It was designed for the rapid development of table-based tangible user interfaces.
    Downloads: 54 This Week
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    QuaZIP

    A C++/Qt ZIP library

    Moved to GitHub: https://github.com/stachenov/quazip
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    Downloads: 59 This Week
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    VelocityX

    VelocityX

    A minimalist Flutter framework for rapidly building Flutter apps

    A minimalist Flutter framework inspired from TailwindCSS and SwiftUI for rapidly building flutter apps. VelocityX is designed to be easily installed and the only aim was to make it, even more, easier to write UIs. VelocityX lets you focus on your design, and it comes with various widget extensions to make it responsive across devices. Go ahead and check the docs. Extend or customize your UI layout by reusing Flutter widgets. VelocityX can be extended while reusing the same widgets. A framework that gives you all of the building blocks you need to build bespoke designs without any annoying nested styles you have to fight to wrap. VelocityX includes a generous palette of great-looking, well-balanced colors that are perfect for prototyping or for kicking off a brand new project.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    Calamares

    Calamares

    Distribution-independent installer framework

    Calamares aims to be easy, usable, beautiful, pragmatic, inclusive and distribution-agnostic. Calamares is an installer framework. By design, it is very customizable, in order to satisfy a wide variety of needs and use cases. Calamares aims to be easy, usable & beautiful while remaining independent of any particular Linux distribution. The Guide linked above has documentation for end-users, the wiki is mostly for distro developers. The developer’s guide contains information on building Calamares, its design, and localization. Since Calamares is designed to be customized, themed, and branded by individual distributions, it can look very different when used by specific distributions. A separate extensions package contains examples and custom modules.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Catch2

    Catch2

    A modern, C++-native, test framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD

    A modern, C++-native, test framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD - using C++14, C++17 and later (C++11 support is in v2.x branch, and C++03 on the Catch1.x branch). Catch2 is mainly a unit testing framework for C++, but it also provides basic micro-benchmarking features and simple BDD macros. Catch2's main advantage is that using it is both simple and natural. Test names do not have to be valid identifiers, assertions look like normal C++ boolean expressions, and sections provide a nice and local way to share set-up and tear-down code in tests. You are on the devel branch, where the v3 version is being developed. v3 brings a bunch of significant changes, the big one being that Catch2 is no longer a single-header library. Catch2 now behaves as a normal library, with multiple headers and separately compiled implementation.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Win32++ is a C++ library used to build windows applications. It is a simple, open source alternative to MFC. Win32++ supports the C++ compilers from GNU and Microsoft. It is an ideal starting point for anyone learning to program for windows, but also caters for the needs of professional developers.
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    Downloads: 39 This Week
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    Cocos2d-x

    Cocos2d-x

    Open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools

    Cocos2d-x is a mature, free, open-source, cross-platform C++ game development framework—derived from cocos2d-iPhone—for building 2D games, interactive media, and demos across major platforms. Fast and compressed textures: PVR compressed and uncompressed textures, ETC1 compressed textures, and more. Language: C++, with Lua and JavaScript bindings. Android Studio 3.0.0+ to build Android games(tested with 3.0.0). JRE or JDK 1.6+ is required for web publishing. Fast font rendering using Fixed and variable-width fonts.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    LÖVE

    LÖVE

    LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua

    LÖVE is an *awesome* framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua. It's free, open-source, and works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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