Libraries for Desktop Operating Systems

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    libjpeg-turbo

    libjpeg-turbo

    SIMD-accelerated libjpeg-compatible JPEG codec library

    libjpeg-turbo is a JPEG image codec that uses SIMD instructions (MMX, SSE2, NEON, AltiVec) to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression on x86, x86-64, ARM, and PowerPC systems. On such systems, libjpeg-turbo is generally 2-6x as fast as libjpeg, all else being equal. On other types of systems, libjpeg-turbo can still outperform libjpeg by a significant amount, by virtue of its highly-optimized Huffman coding routines. In many cases, the performance of libjpeg-turbo rivals that of proprietary high-speed JPEG codecs. libjpeg-turbo implements both the traditional libjpeg API as well as the less powerful but more straightforward TurboJPEG API. libjpeg-turbo also features colorspace extensions that allow it to compress from/decompress to 32-bit and big-endian pixel buffers (RGBX, XBGR, etc.), as well as a full-featured Java interface.
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    mpg123
    This is the fast and Free (LGPL license) real time MPEG Audio Layer 1, 2 and 3 decoding library and console player. It uses floating point or integer math, along with several special optimizations (3DNow, SSE, ARM, ...) to make it most efficient.
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    libusb

    libusb

    A cross-platform library that gives apps easy access to USB devices

    Library to enable user space application programs to communicate with USB devices
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    The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library
    The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library is a simple tool that helps C/C++ developers initialize extensions and write portable applications. GLEW currently supports a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Darwin, Irix, and Solaris.
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    Downloads: 2,600 This Week
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    POSIX Threads for Windows

    An implementation of the POSIX threads API for Windows

    Also known as "pthreads-win32", POSIX Threads for Windows implements a large subset of the threads related API from the Single Unix Specification Version 3. Conformance and quality are high priorities of this mature library. Development began in 1998 and has continued with numerous significant professional contributions. Please note:- whilst PThreads4W can be built and run by it, MinGW64 includes it's own default POSIX Threads library called "winpthreads". The two are not compatible and in order to build and run PThreads4W (formerly PThreads-WIn32) MinGW64 must be installed without win32pthreads. If you want or need to build and run with PThreads4W then you need to choose win32 threading instead of POSIX when you install MinGW64 to not install the conflicting winpthreads include and library files.
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    Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime Plus

    Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime Plus

    The complete and extended version of Visual Basic 6.0 runtime library

    This is the complete package of runtime files and redistributable libraries for running or distributing applications written in Visual Basic 6.0 and together with some third-party redistributable components. Notes and Disclaimer: * Visual Basic 6.0 is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. * All trademarks and components are owned by their respective owners. * The developer's scope was the collection of VB6 redistributables and creation of installer only. * Use at your own risk, the developers was not responsible for any damages for using this software.
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    libmwaw

    libmwaw

    Import library for legacy Mac documents

    libmwaw contains import filters for many old Macintosh text document formats (MacWrite, ClarisWorks, ... ) and for some graphic, spreadsheet and presentation formats. It can handle with varying level of success about forty different formats (see the Wiki section for more details). libmwaw is based on librevenge (see https://sourceforge.net/p/libwpd/wiki/librevenge/ ).
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    Extended Module Player

    Extended Module Player

    A multi-format module player and library

    libxmp is a library that renders module files to PCM data. xmp is a module player for Unix-like systems, based on libxmp, that plays over 90 mainstream and obscure module formats from Amiga, Atari, Acorn, Apple IIgs and PC, including Protracker (MOD), Scream Tracker 3 (S3M), Fast Tracker II (XM) and Impulse Tracker (IT) files.
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    Downloads: 340 This Week
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    Mikmod Sound System
    Mikmod is a module player and library supporting many formats, including mod, s3m, it, and xm. Originally a player for MS-DOS, MikMod has been ported to other platforms, such as Unix, Macintosh, BeOS, and Java(!!)
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    [OFFICIAL] tinyfiledialogs C C++ v3.21.3

    [OFFICIAL] tinyfiledialogs C C++ v3.21.3

    inputbox password WIN OSX GTK QT Console VCPKG C# Lua R Fortran Pascal

    one C/C++ file & header ==> 8 functions: - beep - tray notify popup - message & question - input & password - save file - open file(s) - select folder - color picker complements OpenGL Vulkan GLFW GLUT GLUI VTK SFML TGUI SDL Ogre Unity3d ION OpenCV CeGui MathGL GLM CPW GLOW Open3D ImGui MyGui GLT NGL STB Nuklear Fenster MicroUi & head-less programs NO INIT NO MAIN LOOP NO LINKING NO INCLUDE win (XP to 11) ASCII MBCS UTF-8 UTF-16 (wchar_t) - native dialogs osx/unix ASCII UTF-8 - applescript kdialog zenity shanty … ° SSH console / X forwarding / waypipe Wayland ° the dialogs can be forced into console mode ° curses dialogs via Dialog.exe/Dialog (disabled by default) C89/C23 & C++98/C++23 compliant VisualStudio MinGW GCC Clang TinyCC IntelCC OWCC BCC SunCC on Windows Mac Linux Bsd Solaris Minix Raspbian Flatpak Haiku bindings: VCPKG C# R Lua Rust Haskell Java AllegroBasic Fortran Pascal D JavaScript Kotlin click tab 'Files' for prototypes
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    dlib C++ Library
    Dlib is a C++ toolkit containing machine learning algorithms and tools for creating complex software in C++ to solve real world problems.
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    QtAV

    QtAV

    A multimedia framework based on Qt and FFmpeg

    QtAV is a cross-platform and high performance multimedia playback framework based on Qt and FFmpeg. Features: timeline preview, gpu decoding etc
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    Downloads: 44 This Week
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    QtRPT

    QtRPT

    Easy-to-use print report library and designer

    QtRPT is the easy-to-use report engine written in C++ QtToolkit. It allows combining several reports in one XML file. For separately taken field, you can specify some condition depending on which this field will display in different font and background color, etc. The project consists of two parts: report library QtRPT and report designer application QtRptDesigner. Report file is a file in XML format. The report designer makes easy to create report XML file.
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    cppcrypto

    C++ cryptographic library (modern hash functions, ciphers, KDFs)

    cppcrypto provides optimized implementations of cryptographic primitives. Hash functions: BLAKE, BLAKE2, Echo, Esch, Groestl, JH, Kupyna, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-3, SHAKE, Skein, SM3, Streebog, Whirlpool. Block ciphers: Anubis, Aria, Camellia, CAST-256, Kalyna, Kuznyechik, Mars, Serpent, Simon, SM4, Speck, Threefish, Twofish, and Rijndael (AES) with all block/key sizes. Stream ciphers: HC-128, HC-256, Salsa20, XSalsa20, ChaCha, XChaCha. Encryption modes: CBC, CTR. AEAD modes: Encrypt-then-MAC (EtM), GCM, OCB, ChaCha-Poly1305, Schwaemm. Streaming AEAD. MAC functions: HMAC, Poly1305. Key derivation functions: PBKDF2, scrypt, Argon2, HKDF. Includes sample command-line tools: - 'digest' - for calculating and verifying file checksum(s) using any of the supported hash algorithms (similar to md5sum or RHash). - 'cryptor' - for file encryption using Serpent-256 algorithm in AEAD mode. Check out the cppcrypto web site linked below for programming documentation.
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    Poppler Win32

    Poppler/PopplerQt5 pre-built binaries for Win32 GCC

    Poppler Win32 are pre-built binaries of the Poppler library, it includes libpoppler.dll.a and libpoppler-qt5.dll.a. We made these pre-built binaries since building Poppler (Especially with Qt5 support) is hard and not fully supported on Microsoft Windows. Poppler Win32 was tested using Qt 5.2.1 and Mingw32. "Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base."
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    4tH compiler

    4tH compiler

    A friendly Forth compiler with a little difference

    4tH is a Forth compiler with a little difference. Instead of the standard Forth engine it features a conventional compiler. 4tH is a very small compiler that can create bytecode, C-embeddable bytecode, standalone executables, but also works fine as a scripting language. It supports about 95% of the ANS Forth CORE wordset and features conditional compilation, pipes, files, assertions, forward declarations, enumerations, structures, suspended execution, recursion, include files, etc. It comes with an RPN calculator, BASIC interpreter, line editor, preprocessor, compiler, decompiler, C-source generator, a virtual machine, and a multitasking environment.
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    GTK 3 runtime for windows 32 & 64

    The files required to run GTK+ applications on Windows

    This project is designed to create a nsis installer with the latest gtk3 for windows 32 and 64 bits based on MinGW64 binaries found in OpenSUSE build service.
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    GTK+ for Windows (MinGW)

    GTK+ for Windows (MinGW)

    Gtk 2&3 for Windows (MinGW)

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    POCO C++ Libraries

    POCO C++ Libraries

    Cross-platform C++ libraries with a network/internet focus.

    NOTE: Current source code as well as bugs/patches are on GitHub: https://github.com/pocoproject/poco/ C++ class libraries for network-centric, portable applications, integrated perfectly with the C++ Standard Library. Includes network protocols (Sockets, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, etc.), SQL database access and XML parsing. Licensed under Boost license.
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    FSP - File Service Protocol Suite

    UDP File transfer protocol

    FSP - File Service Protocol. FSP is lightweight UDP based protocol for transferring files. It is designed for anonymous transfers over unreliable networks.
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    PTCPas is a free, portable framebuffer library, written in Free Pascal. It allows low-level high-speed graphics access on multiple platforms.
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    ALEPH-w

    ALEPH-w

    Data structures and Algorithms library

    Aleph-w is a library of data structures and algorithms implemented in and for C++. It contains the main data structures: single and double lists, special arrays (dynamic and of bits), many types of trees: multitrees, binary search trees, avl, red-black, randomized, treaps, splay and other interesting types. Several types of hash tables are implemented: separated chaining, open adressing with linear probing and double function hash; this last one has a garbage colector mechanism that allows to free deleted entries. Dynamic linear hash tables are implemented too. The main algorithms on graphs are implemented in an easy way and with good performance features. Network Flow (maximum and min cost), cut points, topological sort, spanning trees, min paths. etc. The graphs are generic in the sense that they can contain data independent of the algorithm. Several containers of the C++ STL library are implemented with Aleph-w. Their performance is better than GNU implementation
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    LibSecRm - Secure Removal Library

    LibSecRm - Secure Removal Library

    A library for secure deleting data on-the-fly

    LibSecRm (LIBrary for SECure ReMoval) is a set of replacements for these standard C functions which cause data removing from files. The data is first securely wiped on-the-fly, to protect the user's privacy, then the original functions are called. There is NO NEED to rebuild your software, because LibSecRm is a pre-loadable library, meaning you just need to RUN the software with LibSecRm loaded. LibSecRm is also a development library. The following wiping methods are supported: Gutmann-like, random, Schneier, DoD. See the project homepage https://libsecrm.sourceforge.io and the project Wiki in the menu above. To wipe data that was left on the drive by using "normal" delete operations, you can take a look at WipeFreeSpace (https://wipefreespace.sourceforge.io), which wipes the space used by files marked as deleted (and other things, too).
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    Orx: Data-Driven Game Engine

    Orx: Data-Driven Game Engine

    Orx: Data-Driven Game Engine

    Orx is a portable, lightweight, plugin-based, data-driven and extremely easy to use 2D-oriented game engine. As orx is data driven, it allows users to create games with a small number of lines of code and reduces drastically the development time.
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    Simple components for Ada

    Simple components for Ada

    A software components library

    The Simple components for Ada library provides implementations of smart pointers for automatically collected objects (using reference counting), object persistence, unbounded and bounded arrays of smart pointers, generic unbounded arrays of private objects and plain pointers, generic sets, maps, arbitrary precision arithmetic, B-trees, directed graphs, directed weighted graphs, stacks, and storage pools. It also includes table management, string editing, IEEE 754 support, and infix expression parsing tools. Implementations of some lock-free shared data structures are provided.
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