# Awesome C/C++
A curated list of awesome C/C++ frameworks, libraries, resources, and shiny things. Inspired by awesome-... stuff.

- [Awesome C/C++](#awesome-cpp)
	- [Standard Libraries](#standard-libraries)
	- [Frameworks](#frameworks)
	- [Audio](#audio)
	- [Artificial Intelligence](#artificial-intelligence)
	- [Concurrency](#concurrency)
	- [Containers](#containers)
	- [Cryptography](#cryptography)
	- [Database](#database)
	- [GUI](#gui)
	- [Graphics](#graphics)
	- [Imaging](#imaging)
	- [Internationalization](#internationalization)
	- [JSON](#json)
	- [Logging](#logging)
	- [Machine Learning](#machine-learning)
	- [Mocking](#mocking)
	- [Multimedia](#multimedia)
	- [Networking](#networking)
	- [Serialization](#serialization)
	- [Testing](#testing)
	- [Web Application Framework](#web-application-framework)
	- [XML](#xml)
	- [Etc.](#etc)
- [Software](#software)
	- [Compilers](#compilers)
	- [Integrated Development Environments](#integrated-development-environments)
- [Resources](#resources)
	- [C++ Websites](#cpp-websites)
	- [C++ Books](#cpp-books)
	- [C++ Videos](#cpp-videos)
- [Contributing](#contributing)

## Standard Libraries

* [C++ Standard Library](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B_Standard_Library) - A collection of classes and functions, which are written in the core language and part of the C++ ISO Standard itself.
* [Standard Template Library](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Template_Library) - The Standard Template Library (STL).
* [C POSIX library](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_POSIX_library) - A specification of a C standard library for POSIX systems.

## Frameworks
*C++ generic frameworks and libraries.*

* [Apache C++ Standard Library](http://stdcxx.apache.org/) - A collection of algorithms, containers, iterators, and other fundamental components.
* [ASL](http://stlab.adobe.com/) - Adobe Source Libraries provides peer-reviewed and portable C++ source libraries.
* [Boost](http://www.boost.org/) - A large collection of generic C++ libraries.
* [BDE](https://github.com/bloomberg/bde) - The BDE Development Environment from Bloomberg Labs.
* [Cinder](http://libcinder.org/) - A community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding.
* [Cxxomfort](http://ryan.gulix.cl/fossil.cgi/cxxomfort/) - A small, header-only library that backports to C++03 some of the nifty C++11 goodies.
* [Dlib](http://dlib.net/) - A general purpose cross-platform C++ library designed using contract programming and modern C++ techniques.
* [ffead-cpp](https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp) - Framework for Enterprise Application Development.
* [Folly](https://github.com/facebook/folly) - An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook.
* [JUCE](http://www.juce.com/) - An all-encompassing C++ class library for developing cross-platform software.
* [LibSourcey](https://github.com/sourcey/libsourcey) - C++11 evented IO for real-time video streaming and high performance networking applications.
* [LibU](https://github.com/koanlogic/libu) - A multiplatform utility library written in C.
* [Loki](http://loki-lib.sourceforge.net/) - A C++ library of designs, containing flexible implementations of common design patterns and idioms.
* [MiLi](https://code.google.com/p/mili/) - Minimal headers-only C++ Library.
* [openFrameworks](http://www.openframeworks.cc/) - An open source C++ toolkit for creative coding.
* [Qt](http://qt-project.org/) - A cross-platform application and UI framework.
* [Reason](http://code.google.com/p/reason/) - A cross platform framework designed to bring the ease of use of Java, .Net, or Python to developers who require the performance and strength of C++.
* [STXXL](http://stxxl.sourceforge.net/) - Standard Template Library for Extra Large Data Sets.
* [Ultimate++](http://www.ultimatepp.org/) - A C++ cross-platform rapid application development framework.
* [Windows Template Library](http://sourceforge.net/projects/wtl/) - A C++ library for developing Windows applications and UI components.
* [Yomm11](https://github.com/jll63/yomm11) - Open multi-methods for C++11.

##Artificial Intelligence

* [Evolving Objects](http://eodev.sourceforge.net/) - A template-based, ANSI-C++ evolutionary computation library which helps you to write your own stochastic optimization algorithms insanely fast.
* [Neu](https://github.com/andrometa/neu) - A C++ 11 framework, collection of programming languages, and multipurpose software system designed for: the creation of artificial intelligence applications.

## Concurrency

* [Intel TBB](https://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/) - Intel® Threading Building Blocks.
* [OpenMP](http://openmp.org/) - The OpenMP API.
* [Thrust](http://thrust.github.io/) - A parallel algorithms library which resembles the C++ Standard Template Library (STL).
* [HPX](https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx/) - A general purpose C++ runtime system for parallel and distributed applications of any scale.

## Containers

* [C++ B-tree](https://code.google.com/p/cpp-btree/) - A template library that implements ordered in-memory containers based on a B-tree data structure.

## GUI
*Graphic User Interface*

* [GTK+](http://www.gtk.org/) - A multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
* [gtkmm](http://www.gtkmm.org/en/) - The official C++ interface for the popular GUI library GTK+.
* [wxWidgets](http://wxwidgets.org/) - a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other platforms with a single code base.
* [Qwt](http://qwt.sourceforge.net/) - Qt Widgets for Technical Applications.
* [QwtPlot3D](http://qwtplot3d.sourceforge.net/) - A feature-rich Qt/OpenGL-based C++ programming library, providing essentially a bunch of 3D-widgets.

## Graphics

* [Ogre 3D](http://www.ogre3d.org/) - One of the most popular open-source graphics rendering engines.

## Internationalization

* [IBM ICU](http://site.icu-project.org/) - A set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support.
* [gettext](http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/) - GNU `gettext'.

## JSON

* [frozen](https://github.com/cesanta/frozen) - JSON parser and generator for C/C++.
* [picojson](https://github.com/kazuho/picojson) - A header-file-only, JSON parser serializer in C++.

## Machine Learning

* [OpenCV](http://opencv.org/) - Open Computer Vision.
* [Recommender](https://github.com/GHamrouni/Recommender) - A C library for product recommendations/suggestions using collaborative filtering (CF).
* [CCV](https://github.com/liuliu/ccv) - C-based/Cached/Core Computer Vision Library, A Modern Computer Vision Library.
* [mlpack](http://www.mlpack.org/) - A scalable c++ machine learning library.
* [sofia-ml](https://code.google.com/p/sofia-ml/) - The suite of fast incremental algorithms for machine learning.
* [SHOGUN](https://github.com/shogun-toolbox/shogun) - The Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox.
* [Caffe](https://github.com/BVLC/caffe) - A fast framework for neural networks.

## Mocking

* [googlemock](http://code.google.com/p/googlemock/) - A library for writing and using C++ mock classes.

## Multimedia

* [SFML](http://www.sfml-dev.org/index.php) - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library.
* [SDL](http://www.libsdl.org/) - Simple DirectMedia Layer.

## Networking

* [ACE](http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html) - An OO Network Programming Toolkit in C++.
* [Asio](http://think-async.com/) - A cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O programming.
* [Casablanca](http://casablanca.codeplex.com/) - C++ REST SDK.
* [cpp-netlib](http://cpp-netlib.org/) - A collection of open-source libraries for high level network programming.
* [net_skeleton](https://github.com/cesanta/net_skeleton) - TCP client/server library for C/C++.
* [POCO](http://pocoproject.org/) - C++ class libraries and frameworks for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile and embedded systems.

## Serialization

* [cereal](https://github.com/USCiLab/cereal) - A C++11 library for serialization.
* [protobuf](http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/) - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format.

## Testing

* [CppUnit](http://sourceforge.net/projects/cppunit/) - C++ port of JUnit.
* [googletest](http://code.google.com/p/googletest/) - Google C++ Testing Framework.

## Web Application Framework

* [CppCMS](http://cppcms.com/) - A Free High Performance Web Development Framework (not a CMS).
* [Crow](https://github.com/ipkn/crow) - Crow is C++ micro web framework (inspired by Python Flask).
* [Wt](http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt) - A C++ library for developing web applications.

## Etc.

* [SLDR](https://github.com/cesanta/sldr) - Super Light DNS Resolver.
* [SLRE](https://github.com/cesanta/slre) - Super Light Regular Expression library.

# Software
*Software for creating a development environment.*

## Compilers
*List of C/C++ compilers*

* [Clang](http://clang.llvm.org/) - Developed by Apple.
* [GCC](https://gcc.gnu.org/) - GNU Compiler Collection.
* [Intel C++ Compiler](https://software.intel.com/en-us/c-compilers) - Developed by Intel.
* [Microsoft Visual C++](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/hh386302.aspx) - MSVC, developed by Microsoft.

## Integrated Development Environments
*List of C/C++ nominal IDEs.*

* [Code::Blocks](http://www.codeblocks.org/) - A free C, C++ and Fortran IDE.
* [Dev-C++](http://sourceforge.net/projects/orwelldevcpp/) - A portable C/C++/C++11 IDE.
* [Eclipse CDT](http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/) - A fully functional C and C++ IDE based on the Eclipse platform.
* [KDevelop](https://www.kdevelop.org/) - A free, open source IDE.
* [Microsoft Visual Studio](http://www.visualstudio.com/) - An IDE from Microsoft.
* [NetBeans](https://netbeans.org/) - An IDE for developing primarily with Java, but also with other languages, in particular PHP, C/C++, and HTML5.
* [Qt Creator](http://qt-project.org/) - A cross-platform C++, JavaScript and QML IDE which is part of the SDK for the Qt.
* [Xcode](https://developer.apple.com/xcode/) - Developed by Apple.

# Resources
*Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your C++ development skills and knowledge.*

## C++ Websites
*Useful C++ related websites.*

* [C++ reference](http://cppreference.com/) - C++98, C++03, C++11, C++14 reference.

## C++ Books
*Fantastic C++ related books.*

* [The C++ Annotations](http://cppannotations.sourceforge.net/annotations/html/) - An in-depth guide on C++, intended for people with a good knowledge of C who want to make the transition to C++. 

## C++ Articles
*Fantastic C++ related articles.*

* [C++Now 2014 Presentations](https://github.com/boostcon/cppnow_presentations_2014) - Presentation materials presented at C++Now 2014.
* [C++Now 2013 Presentations](https://github.com/boostcon/cppnow_presentations_2013) - Presentation materials presented at C++Now 2013.
* [C++Now 2012 Presentations](https://github.com/boostcon/cppnow_presentations_2012) - Presentation materials presented at C++Now 2012.

## C++ Videos
*Fantastic C++ related videos.*

## Other Awesome Things
*Collection of useful codes, snippets, ...*

* [C/C++ Awesome Pack](https://github.com/junian/CppAwesomePack) - Contains some awesome c++ codes, packed in one.

# Contributing
Please see [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.