Open Source C Build Tools for Desktop Operating Systems

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.

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

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.

CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software. CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files, and generate native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice. The suite of CMake tools were created by Kitware in response to the need for a powerful, cross-platform build environment for open-source projects such as ITK and VTK. CMake is part of Kitware’s collection of commercially supported open-source platforms for software development and integrates with CDash to provide a comprehensive suite of tools. CDash is the testing server that aggregates, analyzes, and displays the results of software testing processes submitted from clients located around the world.

Cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. Provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.

CLISP is a portable ANSI Common Lisp implementation and development environment by Bruno Haible. Interpreter, compiler, debugger, CLOS, MOP, FFI, Unicode, sockets, CLX. UI in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, and Danish.

PyInstaller is a program that converts (packages) Python programs into stand-alone executables, under Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, AIX and Solaris. Its main advantages over similar tools are that PyInstaller works with any version of Python since 2.3, it builds smaller executables thanks to transparent compression, it is fully multi-platform, and uses the OS support to load the dynamic libraries, thus ensuring full compatibility. The main goal of PyInstaller is to be compatible with 3rd-party packages out-of-the-box. This means that, with PyInstaller, all the required tricks to make external packages work are already integrated within PyInstaller itself so that there is no user intervention required. You'll never be required to look for tricks in wikis and apply custom modification to your files or your setup scripts. As an example, libraries like PyQt, Django or matplotlib are fully supported, without having to handle plugins or external data files manually.

Development environment for OS/2 and DOS

cx_Freeze is a set of utilities for freezing Python scripts into executables using many of the techniques found in Thomas Heller's py2exe, Gordon McMillan's Installer and the Freeze utility that ships with Python itself

This project is for the portable computer "Cambridge Z88", produced by Sir Clive Sinclair (of ZX Spectrum fame). We continue to support software development (ROM, 3rd party apps on memory cards and desktop applications). We have moved to https://cambridgez88.jira.com/wiki (development, source code and documentation). However, we continue to publish files for download here.

Harbour Minigui (MinGW Package) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Harbour MiniGUI (Mingw Package) includes these main components: - Harbour 3.2.0dev (r1611161510) ( https://github.com/harbour/core ) - Harbour MiniGUI extended v.16.11 ( http://hmgextended.com/home.html ) - Mingw 6.2.0 (MinGW-w64 - for 32 and 64 bit Windows Compiler Suite for Windows) ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/ ) For details about the above products, please visit their respective sites. This package might be a good choice for harbour & ex-clipper programmers seeking a usable way to convert / transfer their application(s) into the windows GUI world. Try it, to see if it fits with your development environment...

Fastjar is an implementation of Sun's jar utility that comes with the JDK, written entirely in C, and runs in a fraction of the time while being 100% feature compatible.

MakeGENerator is a highly customizable standalone makefile generator. Enables the usage of different recipes and include path, per groups of files. Generates 'clean','depend' and other rules, automatically, plus handy macros. Simplifies build process

DBOW is a database compiler-compiler or front-end. It takes table definitions in a relatively high-level language and prepares C, C++, PHP, Perl (etc) functions for manipulating the database. It will also produce SQL table data for MySQL.

ABIcheck is a tool for checking an application's compliance with a library's defined Application Binary Interface (ABI). It relies on ABI definition information contained in the library. Example definitions are given for GNOME and glibc.

Adebug/Assemble is a pair of Debugger/Assembler for the MC68Xxx family running on Atari and Amiga computers. Years ago commercial product, now GPL.

Maintain your software with amake (a make utility for developers). Supports strong pattern recognition and transformations. A single makefile can be used to compile an entire project.

A self-contained and portable build system derived from the traditional 4.4BSD system. It implements Bourne configure script generation, concurrent building and it can compile IDE project files. It is portable to most operating systems and make flavors.

Cross platform libraries and tools that may make your life easier.

FOOL is a Fuzzy system development tool with interactive 'foolproof' graphical user interface.

gcov-eclipse is an Eclipse plug-in that will extend CDT to provide code-coverage testing to C/C++ projects by using the gcov program. It will integrate into the CDT's launch and managed build system.

An easily-customizable makefile template for C/C++ programs. Once customized, without any changes it can be used to build all the same kind of programs, even when source files are renamed, added or removed.

A collection of development tools and build environments for Interix using the Microsoft compiler. Aims to facilitate interaction between Visual Studio, Microsoft build and GNU tools. Ex Visual Studio Addins, shell scripts, makefiles and library patches.

Mondo: Shared Library Monitor