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Software Development Software for Desktop Operating Systems

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    MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows

    A native Windows port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)

    MinGW: A native Windows port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), with freely distributable import libraries and header files for building native Windows applications; includes extensions to the MSVC runtime to support C99 functionality. All of MinGW's software will execute on the 64bit Windows platforms.
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    Downloads: 2,949,111 This Week
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    Dev-C++

    Dev-C++

    A free, portable, fast and simple C/C++ IDE

    A new and improved fork of Bloodshed Dev-C++
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    Downloads: 50,106 This Week
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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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    Downloads: 47,431 This Week
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    MinGW-w64 - for 32 and 64 bit Windows

    A complete runtime environment for gcc

    The mingw-w64 project is a complete runtime environment for gcc to support binaries native to Windows 64-bit and 32-bit operating systems.
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    Downloads: 42,944 This Week
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    GnuWin

    GnuWin

    Provides native Win32 open source ports and utilities

    GnuWin provides Win32-versions of GNU tools, or tools with a similar open source licence. The ports are native ports, relying only on libraries provided with any modern 32-bits MS-Windows operating system, such as 2000 / XP / Vista / 7
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    Downloads: 33,074 This Week
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    Steel Bank Common Lisp

    Common Lisp compiler and runtime

    A high performance Common Lisp compiler. In addition to standard ANSI Common Lisp, it provides an interactive environment including an a debugger, a statistical profiler, a code coverage tool, and many other extensions.
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    Downloads: 39,623 This Week
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    log4cplus

    log4cplus

    Logging Framework for C++

    log4cplus is a simple to use C++ logging API providing thread-safe, flexible, and arbitrarily granular control over log management and configuration. It is modelled after the Java log4j API.
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    Downloads: 19,567 This Week
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    Doxygen
    Doxygen is a JavaDoc like documentation system for C++, C, Java and IDL.
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    Downloads: 14,156 This Week
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    Lazarus

    Lazarus

    Rapid applications development tool and libraries for FPC

    The Lazarus IDE is a stable and feature rich visual programming environment for the FreePascal Compiler. It supports the creation of self-standing graphical and console applications and runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX and Windows.
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    Downloads: 14,108 This Week
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    asio is a cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O programming that provides developers with a consistent asynchronous model using a modern C++ approach.
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    Downloads: 12,150 This Week
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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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    Downloads: 6,263 This Week
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    Free Pascal Compiler

    Free Pascal Compiler

    Free 32/64/16-bit multi-platform Pascal and Object Pascal compiler

    A 32/64/16-bit Pascal compiler for Win32/64/CE, Linux, Mac OS X/iOS, Android, FreeBSD, OS/2, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo NDS and DOS; semantically compatible with Delphi, Borland Pascal and Mac Pascal (partially) with extra features, e.g. operator overloading.
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    Downloads: 3,281 This Week
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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: 3,397 This Week
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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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    Downloads: 3,719 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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    Downloads: 4,556 This Week
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    XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for text files with UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc utilities.
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    Downloads: 1,934 This Week
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    OmegaT - multiplatform CAT tool

    OmegaT - multiplatform CAT tool

    The free computer aided translation (CAT) tool for professionals

    OmegaT is a free and open source multiplatform Computer Assisted Translation tool with fuzzy matching, translation memory, keyword search, glossaries, and translation leveraging into updated projects.
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    Downloads: 1,656 This Week
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    TDM-GCC Compiler

    TDM-GCC Compiler

    GCC for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows with a real installer & updater

    TDM-GCC is now hosted on Github at https://jmeubank.github.io/tdm-gcc/. The most recent stable releases from the GCC compiler project, for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, cleverly disguised with a real installer & updater.
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    Downloads: 1,210 This Week
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    Small Device C Compiler (SDCC)

    Small Device C Compiler (SDCC)

    The Small Device C Compiler (SDCC), targeting 8-bit architectures

    SDCC is a retargettable, optimizing standard C (ANSI C89 / ISO C90, ISO C99, ISO C11 / C17, ISO C23) compiler that targets a growing list of architectures: STM8, MCS-51, DS390, HC08, S08, Z80, Z180, R800, Rabbit, SM83, eZ80 in Z80 mode, Z80N, TLCS-90, Padauk PDK14 and PDK15 microprocessors. There also is incomplete support for the Microchip PIC16 and PIC18 and the Padauk PDK13 and MOS 6502.
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    Downloads: 1,163 This Week
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    This is a simple templatized C++ library for parsing command line arguments. The library provides a simple, flexible object-oriented interface to the command line that automates argument parsing, USAGE creation and type casting.
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    Downloads: 1,228 This Week
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    Snap7

    Snap7

    32/64 bit multi-platform Ethernet S7 PLC communication suite

    Snap7, through three specialized components: Client and the inedited Server and Partner, allows you to definitively integrate your PC based systems into a PLC automation chain. Designed to transfer large amounts of hi-speed data in industrial facilities, it scales easily, down to small Linux Arm boards such as Raspberry PI. Hi level object oriented wrappers are provided, currently C/C++, .NET/Mono, Pascal, LabVIEW, Python with many source code examples. Very easy to use, a full working server example is not bigger than the “Hello world”. Many projects/makefiles are ready to run to easily rebuild Snap7 in any platform without the need of be a C++ guru. Very detailed documentation provided.
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    Downloads: 938 This Week
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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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    Downloads: 1,158 This Week
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    A comprehensive software suite for reading barcodes. Supports EAN/UPC, Code 128, Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5 and QR Code. Includes libraries and applications for decoding captured barcode images and using a video device (eg, webcam) as a barcode scanner.
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    Downloads: 880 This Week
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    FreeBASIC Compiler
    Open-source, free, multi-platform BASIC compiler, with syntax similar MS-QuickBASIC (including the GFX statements), that adds new features such as pointers, unsigned data types, inline assembly, a pre-processor and many others.
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    Downloads: 1,026 This Week
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    Launch4j Executable Wrapper
    Cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. Provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.
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    Downloads: 3,002 This Week
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