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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.

16 Reviews

Downloads: 37,357 This Week

Last Update: 2024-01-13
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opencore-amr

Audio codecs extracted from Android Open Source Project

Library of OpenCORE Framework implementation of Adaptive Multi Rate Narrowband and Wideband (AMR-NB and AMR-WB) speech codec. Library of VisualOn implementation of Adaptive Multi Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) encoder and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) encoder. Modified library of Fraunhofer AAC decoder and encoder.

19 Reviews

Downloads: 8,381 This Week

Last Update: 2025-08-21
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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.

27 Reviews

Downloads: 7,568 This Week

Last Update: 2026-06-06
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LuaBinaries

LuaBinaries is a distribution of the Lua libraries and executables compiled for several platforms.

13 Reviews

Downloads: 5,113 This Week

Last Update: 2026-01-20
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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

16 Reviews

Downloads: 3,432 This Week

Last Update: 2026-05-18
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Win flex-bison

Win flex-bison is a port Flex & Bison tools to the Windows platform

Win flex-bison is a windows port the Flex (the fast lexical analyser) and Bison (GNU parser generator). win_flex based on Flex version 2.6.3 source code and win_bison based on Bison version 2.7 and they depend on system libraries only. Git repository: https://github.com/lexxmark/winflexbison UPDATE1: Bison version 3.x.x available in Files section in win_flex_bison3-latest.zip package. UPDATE2: Now "winflexbison" available as package in Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/packages/winflexbison and https://chocolatey.org/packages/winflexbison3) UPDATE3: You can use VS custom build rules to simplify working with winflexbison in Visual Studio 2010 and upper (https://sourceforge.net/p/winflexbison/wiki/Visual%20Studio%20custom%20build%20rules/).

7 Reviews

Downloads: 4,407 This Week

Last Update: 2021-01-06
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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.

15 Reviews

Downloads: 2,562 This Week

Last Update: 2026-01-24
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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.

2 Reviews

Downloads: 2,780 This Week

Last Update: 2024-03-01
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GTK+2 for Windows Runtime Environment

The files required to run GTK+ applications on Windows

This is the GTK+2 Runtime Environment Installer for Windows. It includes all of the files required to run GTK+2 applications on Windows. Some support tools are also available. This project is no longer maintained. Please use its successor: https://github.com/tschoonj/GTK-for-Windows-Runtime-Environment-Installer

20 Reviews

Downloads: 1,317 This Week

Last Update: 2023-04-19
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OpenCorePkg

OpenCore bootloader

OpenCorePkg is an open-source, modular UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) bootloader and development framework, primarily designed to enable macOS booting on non-Apple hardware (Hackintosh). It includes Apple-specific UEFI drivers, utilities for macOS installation support, and shared libraries used across Acidanthera projects. Apple disk image loading support. Apple keyboard input aggregation. Apple PE image signature verification. Apple UEFI secure boot supplemental code. Audio management with screen reading support. Basic ACPI and SMBIOS manipulation.

Downloads: 222 This Week

Last Update: 2026-03-20
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Octave Forge

A collection of packages providing extra functionality for GNU Octave

Octave Forge is a central location for collaborative development of packages for GNU Octave. The Octave Forge packages expand Octave's core functionality by providing field specific features via Octave's package system. See https://octave.sourceforge.io/packages.php for a list of all available packages. GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides capabilities for the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing other numerical experiments. It also provides extensive graphics capabilities for data visualization and manipulation. Octave is normally used through its interactive command line interface, but it can also be used to write non-interactive programs. The Octave language is quite similar to Matlab so that most programs are easily portable. Refer to https://www.octave.org for more information.

56 Reviews

Downloads: 935 This Week

Last Update: 4 days ago
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AppSync

Unified AppSync dynamic library for iOS 5 and above

AppSync is a tool that enables sideloading and installation of unsigned iOS applications. It allows developers and users to install apps without requiring a paid Apple Developer account.

Downloads: 196 This Week

Last Update: 2025-03-07
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raylib

A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming

raylib is highly inspired by Borland BGI graphics lib and by XNA framework. Do you want to see all functions available in raylib? Check raylib cheatsheet. raylib is a programming library to enjoy videogames programming; no fancy interface, no visual helpers, no auto-debugging, just coding in the most pure spartan-programmers way. raylib has received several recognitions in the last years and many people have written about the library. Here there are the main awards received from Google and Epic Games. raylib supports multiple target platforms, it has been tested in the following platforms but, technically, any platform that supports C language and OpenGL graphics is valid for raylib or can be very easily ported to. raylib can be combined with several extra libraries for additional functionality, some of those libraries are already used internally while others are provided for user integration, most of these libraries are single-file header-only with no external dependencies.

Downloads: 111 This Week

Last Update: 2026-04-23
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QB64

BASIC for the modern era

QB64 is a modern self-hosting BASIC compiler that brings classic QBasic/QuickBASIC programs into the modern era. It enables legacy code to run on today’s operating systems with minimal modifications, while also introducing new commands and libraries for multimedia, networking, and 64-bit computing. QB64 compiles to C++ and includes a built-in IDE, making it accessible for beginners, hobbyists, and retro programming enthusiasts. It aims to preserve the ease and nostalgia of BASIC while expanding its capabilities for contemporary development.

Downloads: 90 This Week

Last Update: 2025-03-25
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libimobiledevice

A cross-platform protocol library to communicate with iOS devices

libimobiledevice is a cross-platform software library that talks the protocols to interact with iOS devices. Unlike other projects, it does not depend on using any existing proprietary libraries and does not require jailbreaking. Access filesystem of a device, access documents of file sharing apps, retrieve information about a device and modify various settings, backup and restore the device in a native way compatible with iTunes. Manage app icons arrangement on the device, install, remove, list and basically manage apps. Activate a device using official servers, manage contacts, calendars, notes and bookmarks, retrieve and remove crashreports. Retrieve various diagnostics information, establish a debug connection for app debugging, mount filesystem images, forward device notifications, manage device provisioning. Take screenshots from the device screen (requires mounted developer image). Simulate changed geolocation of the device (requires mounted developer image).

Downloads: 44 This Week

Last Update: 2025-10-10
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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.

4 Reviews

Downloads: 287 This Week

Last Update: 8 hours ago
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Darknet YOLO

Real-Time Object Detection for Windows and Linux

This is YOLO-v3 and v2 for Windows and Linux. YOLO (You only look once) is a state-of-the-art, real-time object detection system of Darknet, an open source neural network framework in C. YOLO is extremely fast and accurate. It uses a single neural network to divide a full image into regions, and then predicts bounding boxes and probabilities for each region. This project is a fork of the original Darknet project.

Downloads: 40 This Week

Last Update: 2024-01-29
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usbmuxd

A socket daemon to multiplex connections from and to iOS devices

A socket daemon to multiplex connections from and to iOS devices. usbmuxd stands for "USB multiplexing daemon". This daemon is in charge of multiplexing connections over USB to an iOS device. The daemon is automatically started by udev or systemd depending on what you have configured upon hotplug of an iOS device and exits if the last device was unplugged. When usbmuxd is running it provides a socket interface at /var/run/usbmuxd that is designed to be compatible with the socket interface that is provided on macOS. You should also create an usbmux user that has access to USB devices on your system. Alternatively, just pass a different username using the -U argument. usbmuxd is not used for tethering data transfers which uses a dedicated USB interface to act as a virtual network device. The higher-level layers, especially if you want to write an application to interact with the device, are handled by libimobiledevice.

Downloads: 39 This Week

Last Update: 2023-06-26
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OpenSSL Project

TLS/SSL and crypto library

OpenSSL is a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured Open Source Toolkit for the TLS (formerly SSL), DTLS and QUIC (currently client-side only) protocols. The protocol implementations are based on a full-strength general-purpose cryptographic library, which can also be used stand-alone. Also included is a cryptographic module validated to conform with FIPS standards. OpenSSL is descended from the SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young and Tim J. Hudson.

Downloads: 35 This Week

Last Update: 2026-06-09
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libusb

A cross-platform library to access USB devices

libusb is a library for USB device access from Linux, macOS, Windows, OpenBSD/NetBSD, Haiku and Solaris userspace. It is written in C (Haiku backend in C++) and licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or, at your option, any later version. libusb is a C library that provides generic access to USB devices. It is intended to be used by developers to facilitate the production of applications that communicate with USB hardware. Using a single cross-platform API, it provides access to USB devices on Linux, macOS, Windows, etc. No special privilege or elevation is required for the application to communicate with a device. All versions of the USB protocol, from 1.0 to 3.1 (latest), are supported. libusb is abstracted internally in such a way that it can hopefully be ported to other operating systems.

Downloads: 29 This Week

Last Update: 2026-05-17
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Darknet

Convolutional Neural Networks

Darknet is an open source neural network framework written in C and CUDA, developed by Joseph Redmon. It is best known as the original implementation of the YOLO (You Only Look Once) real-time object detection system. Darknet is lightweight, fast, and easy to compile, making it suitable for research and production use. The repository provides pre-trained models, configuration files, and tools for training custom object detection models. With GPU acceleration via CUDA and OpenCV integration, it achieves high performance in image recognition tasks. Its simplicity, combined with powerful capabilities, has made Darknet one of the most influential projects in the computer vision community.

Downloads: 28 This Week

Last Update: 6 days ago
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[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

10 Reviews

Downloads: 133 This Week

Last Update: 2026-06-16
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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(!!)

1 Review

Downloads: 342 This Week

Last Update: 2026-05-22
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WebP Codec

Library to encode and decode images in WebP format

libwebp is the reference codec library for Google’s WebP image format, providing both encoding and decoding along with command-line tools. It supplies cwebp to compress images into WebP and dwebp to decompress them back, making it easy to test quality/size trade-offs across presets and tuning parameters. The GitHub repository is a mirror; the canonical source of truth lives on Chromium’s git, and developer docs are hosted on WebP’s portal. The project underpins WebP support across browsers, imaging libraries, and many native apps thanks to its stable C API. Additional companion repos host test data and demos, including JavaScript builds and timing tests for various platforms. As a widely deployed codec, libwebp balances compression efficiency, speed, and integration simplicity across platforms.

Downloads: 23 This Week

Last Update: 2025-10-12
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GLFW

A project that has moved to GitHub

GLFW is an Open Source, multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan development on the desktop. It provides a simple API for creating windows, contexts and surfaces, receiving input and events.

16 Reviews

Downloads: 97 This Week

Last Update: 2024-02-21
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