List of C++ software and tools

This is a list of software and programming tools for the C++ programming language, which includes libraries, web frameworks, implementations, compilers, integrated development environments, tools, and related projects.

Compilers and IDEs

AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler — proprietary fork of LLVM + Clang for Linux
C++Builder — rapid application development (RAD) environment
Clang – compiler front end for C, C++, and Objective-C, part of LLVM
CLion — C++ IDE by JetBrains
Code::Blocks — open-source cross-platform IDE that supports multiple compilers including GCC, Clang and Visual C++
CodeLite — cross-platform IDE for the C/C++ programming languages using the wxWidgets toolkit
CodeSynthesis XSD – XML Data Binding compiler
Dev-C++ — MinGW or TDM-GCC 64bit port of the GCC as its compiler
GCC – GNU Compiler Collection
Intel C++ Compiler – proprietary high-performance compiler by Intel
KDevelop — IDE part of the KDE project and is based on KDE Frameworks and Qt, the C/C++ backend uses Clang.
Microsoft Visual C++ – proprietary C++ compiler and IDE for Windows
Oracle Developer Studio — Solaris, OpenSolaris, RHEL, and Oracle Linux operating systems.
Qt Creator — part of the SDK for the Qt GUI application development framework and uses the Qt API
SlickEdit — text editor and IDE
Turbo C++ – legacy C++ IDE and compiler popular in the 1990s
Understand — IDE that enables static code analysis through an array of visuals, documentation, and metric tools.
Visual Studio — integrated development environment by Microsoft that supports C++
Visual Studio Code — integrated development environment by Microsoft that supports C++
Xcode — Apple IDE to develop macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS that supports C++ source code.

Debuggers

Allinea DDT – a graphical debugger
dbx — a proprietary source-level debugger
GNU Debugger – portable debugger that runs on many Unix-like systems
Modular Debugger — a C/C++ source level debugger for Solaris and derivates
Undo LiveRecorder — time travel debugger

Libraries

Active Template Library – template-based C++ classes developed by Microsoft
ALGLIB — numerical analysis and data processing library
Apache MXNet — deep learning framework
Apache Xerces – parsing, validating, and serializing and manipulating XML.
Armadillo — linear algebra library
Asio — networking and low-level I/O library
Bitpit — scientific computing and mesh manipulation library
Boost — collection of peer-reviewed libraries
Botan — cryptography library
C++ AMP – easy way to write programs that compile and execute on data-parallel hardware, such as graphics cards and GPUs
C++ Standard Library — standard library for the language
C++/WinRT — library for Microsoft's Windows Runtime platform, designed to provide access to modern Windows APIs.
C3D Toolkit — geometric modeling kernel
Caffe — deep learning framework
CAPD — library for rigorous numerics and dynamical systems
Cassowary — constraint-solving toolkit that efficiently solves systems of linear equalities and inequalities
CGAL — computational geometry algorithms library
Cinder — library for creative coding
ClanLib — cross-platform game SDK
Class Library for Numbers — number theory and arithmetic library
CMU Sphinx — speech recognition system
CppUnit — unit testing framework
Crypto++ — cryptographic algorithms library
deal.II — finite element analysis library
Dlib — general-purpose cross-platform library
Dune — partial differential equations using grid-based methods
Effi — libraries for numerics
Eigen — template library for linear algebra
fastText — text representation and text classification library
FLTK — GUI toolkit
Geospatial Data Abstraction Library — geospatial data access library
GDCM — image library
General Polygon Clipper — polygon clipping library
GiNaC — computer algebra system that uses Class Library for Numbers for implementing arbitrary-precision arithmetic
GLFW — OpenGL and window management library
Google Test — unit testing library
HarfBuzz — text rendering and typesetting library
High Efficiency Image File Format — digital container format for storing individual digital images and image sequences
ITK — image analysis library
Integrated Performance Primitives — domain-specific functions that are highly optimized for diverse Intel architectures
Jackets library — GPU computing library
JSBSim — open-source flight dynamics model
JUCE — framework for audio applications
KDE Frameworks — collection of libraries from the KDE project
KFRlib — digital signal processing framework
LEMON — library for optimization and graph problems
LevelDB — key–value database library
Libarc — GZIP compressed ARC files
Libdash — MPEG-DASH streaming library
libLAS — reading and writing geospatial data encoded in the ASPRS laser (LAS) file format
libsigc++ — typesafe callbacks
LibRaw — free and open-source software library for reading raw files from digital cameras
libSBML — application programming interface (API) for the SBML (Systems Biology Markup Language)
LIBSVM — sequential minimal optimization (SMO) algorithm for kernelized support vector machines
Libx — DirectX .X files graphics library
Loki — collection of design patterns
LIVE555 — multimedia streaming library
Metakit — embedded database library
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit — deep learning toolkit
Microsoft Foundation Class Library — object-oriented library for developing desktop applications for Windows
Microsoft SEAL — homomorphic encryption library
mlpack — machine learning and AI library
Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit — robotics research library
Number Theory Library — number theory
Open Asset Import Library — library to import and export 3D models
Object Windows Library — Object Windows Library, superseded by VCL
Open Cascade — CAD and 3D modeling library
Open Asset Import Library — 3D model import library to provide a common API for different 3D asset file formats
OpenCV – computer vision and machine learning library
OpenFOAM — computational fluid dynamics toolkit
OpenH264 — real-time encoding and decoding video streams in the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format
OpenImageIO — image processing library
Open Inventor — higher layer of programming for OpenGL
OpenNN — neural networks library
OpenVDB — sparse volume data library
openFrameworks — creative coding toolkit
OpenRTM-aist — robotics middleware library
Oracle Template Library — database access that supports IBM Db2 and Open Database Connectivity
Orfeo toolbox — remote sensing image processing library
OR-Tools — operations research and optimization library
Parallel Augmented Maps — ordered sets, ordered maps, and augmented maps.
Parallel Patterns Library — Microsoft library that provides features for multicore programming
PhysX — physics simulation engine
POCO C++ Libraries — general-purpose libraries for software development
Poppler — PDF rendering library
Protocol Buffers — data serialization library
Qt — cross-platform widget toolkit
QuantLib — quantitative finance library
RocksDB — key–value database library
ROOT — data analysis framework from CERN
ROS — robotics middleware
Scintilla — source code editing component
SDL – Simple DirectMedia Layer, cross-platform development library for multimedia applications
SFML – Simple and Fast Multimedia Library
Shark – open-source machine learning library
Shogun — machine learning toolbox
SFML — multimedia library
Skia — 2D graphics library
Snappy — compression library
Sound Object Library — music and audio development
Standard Template Library — library of containers and algorithms
Stapl — parallel computing library
SymbolicC++ — symbolic computation library
TBOX — scientific computing library
TerraLib — GIS library
Tesseract OCR — optical character recognition engine
Threading Building Blocks — parallel computing library
ThreadWeaver — concurrency framework
Tiny-dnn — lightweight deep learning library
TinyXML — lightweight XML parser
Tkrzw — key–value databases
VTD-XML — XML processing library
wxWidgets — cross-platform GUI toolkit
x265 — video encoding library for HEVC
XGBoost — gradient boosting library
Windows Template Library — Win32 development
wxWidgets – cross-platform GUI library

Tools

Akonadi — a C++/Qt framework and storage service for personal information management
BALL – framework and set of algorithms and data structures for molecular modelling and computational structural bioinformatics
Boehm garbage collector – conservative garbage collector
CEGUI — C++ GUI library
ClanLib – video game SDK
CMake — cross-platform build system for C++ projects
Confidential Consortium Framework – blockchain infrastructure framework
DaviX – WebDAV client
Doxygen — documentation generator for C++ and other languages
FLTK — Fast Light Toolkit, cross-platform GUI library
Fox toolkit — C++ GUI toolkit
GDB — GNU Project debugger, often used with C and C++
gtkmm — official C++ interface for the popular GUI library GTK
HOOPS Visualize — 3D computer graphics
HPX — partitioned global address space Parallel programming Runtime System
JUCE — cross-platform C++ audio and GUI framework
LessTif — free clone of Motif GUI toolkit
MFC — Microsoft Foundation Class library
Nana — modern C++ GUI toolkit
Parasoft C/C++test — set of tools for testing C and C++ source code
PTK Toolkit — 2D rendering engine and SDK, and portability options.
Qt — cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit
Rogue Wave — C++ GUI toolkit
TnFOX — C++ GUI toolkit
Ultimate++ — cross-platform C++ GUI framework
Valgrind — tool suite for debugging and profiling C/C++ programs
wxWidgets — cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit
x265 — encoder for creating digital video streams in the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC/H.265) video compression format
Xcas — computer algebra system