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    Octave Forge

    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.
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    AnyPS5

    AnyPS5

    Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows

    AnyPS5 is an experimental compatibility project for automatically porting PlayStation 5 executables to Linux and Windows. Instead of emulating an entire console, it relinks executables into native target formats and supplies replacement implementations for required system libraries. The project includes a shader recompiler that can produce SPIR-V for Vulkan-based graphics workflows. Unsupported conditions are deliberately surfaced as runtime errors rather than silently ignored. SDL-compatible game controllers are supported, while keyboard and mouse mappings can be configured separately. The relinker uses C++20 and targets portability across host compilers where practical. AnyPS5 is intended for interoperability, preservation, and research using legally obtained software.
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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/).
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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: 2,068 This Week
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    GTK+2 for Windows Runtime Environment

    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
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    Effekseer

    Effekseer

    This software is a particle effect editing tool

    Effekseer is an open-source tool designed for creating stunning visual effects for games and multimedia applications. It allows artists and developers to design complex particle effects through an intuitive graphical user interface, supporting various features like particles, beams, and distortion effects. Effekseer supports multiple platforms and integrates seamlessly with popular game engines, enabling the creation of rich visual experiences without extensive programming knowledge.
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    half

    C++ library for half precision floating point arithmetics.

    This is a C++ header-only library to provide an IEEE-754 conformant half-precision floating point type along with corresponding arithmetic operators, type conversions and common mathematical functions. It aims for both efficiency and ease of use, trying to accurately mimic the behaviour of the builtin floating point types at the best performance possible. It automatically uses and provides C++11 features when possible, but stays completely C++98-compatible when neccessary.
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    Intel RealSense

    Intel RealSense

    Intel® RealSense SDK

    Intel® RealSense™ SDK 2.0 is a cross-platform library for Intel® RealSense™ depth cameras. The SDK allows depth and color streaming and provides intrinsic and extrinsic calibration information. The library also offers synthetic streams (point cloud, depth aligned to color and vise-versa), and built-in support for recording and playback of streaming sessions. Intel has EOLed the LiDAR, Facial Authentication, and Tracking product lines. These products have been discontinued and will no longer be available for new orders. Intel WILL continue to sell and support stereo products including the following: D410, D415, D430, , D401 ,D450 modules and D415, D435, D435i, D435f, D405, D455, D457 depth cameras. We will also continue the work to support and develop our LibRealSense open source SDK.
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    OpenH264

    OpenH264

    Open Source H.264 Codec

    Cisco has taken their H.264 implementation and open-sourced it under BSD license terms. Development and maintenance will be overseen by a board from the industry and the open-source community. Furthermore, we have provided a binary form suitable for inclusion in applications across a number of different operating systems and made this binary module available for download from the Internet. We will not pass on our MPEG-LA licensing costs for this module, and based on the current licensing environment, this will effectively make H.264 free for use on supported platforms. OpenH264 is a codec library which supports H.264 encoding and decoding. It is suitable for use in real-time applications such as WebRTC. Constrained Baseline Profile up to Level 5.2 (Max frame size is 36864 macro-blocks). Arbitrary resolution, not constrained to multiples of 16x16. Rate control with adaptive quantization, or constant quantization.
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    ESP8266 Arduino Core

    ESP8266 core for Arduino

    ESP8266 Arduino Core is the Arduino core for the ESP8266 WiFi chip. It brings support for the ESP8266 chip to the Arduino environment, allowing you to write sketches, use familiar Arduino functions and libraries, and run these directly on ESP8266 without the need for an external microcontroller. ESP8266 Arduino core comes with libraries that enable it to perform a number of things. It can communicate over WiFi through the use of TCP and UDP; it can set up HTTP, mDNS, SSDP, and DNS servers; and it can perform OTA updates. ESP8266 Arduino core works with SD cards, servos, SPI and I2C peripherals.
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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(!!)
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    Downloads: 716 This Week
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    CasADi

    CasADi

    CasADi is a symbolic framework for numeric optimization

    CasADi is a symbolic framework for numeric optimization implementing automatic differentiation in forward and reverse modes on sparse matrix-valued computational graphs. It supports self-contained C-code generation and interfaces state-of-the-art codes such as SUNDIALS, IPOPT, etc. It can be used in C++, Python, or Matlab/Octave. CasADi's backbone is a symbolic framework implementing forward and reverse modes of AD on expression graphs to construct gradients, large-and-sparse Jacobians, and Hessians. These expression graphs, encapsulated in Function objects, can be evaluated in a virtual machine or exported to stand-alone C code. Initial value problems in ordinary or differential-algebraic equations (ODE/DAE) can be calculated using explicit or implicit Runge-Kutta methods or interfaces to IDAS/CVODES from the SUNDIALS suite. Derivatives are calculated using sensitivity equations, up to arbitrary order.
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    FastLED

    FastLED

    The FastLED library for colored LED animation on Arduino

    FastLED is a fast, efficient, easy-to-use Arduino library for programming addressable LED strips and pixels such as WS2810, WS2811, LPD8806, Neopixel and more. FastLED is used by thousands of developers, in countless art and hobby projects, and in numerous commercial products. We build FastLED to help you get started faster, develop your code faster, and make your code run faster. FastLED supports popular LEDs including Neopixel, WS2801, WS2811, WS2812B, LPD8806, TM1809, and more. The library runs on a wide range of Arduino and compatible boards, including both AVR- and ARM- based microcontrollers. In addition to fast, efficient, compatible LED driver code, FastLED also provides features that get your animations up and running fast.
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    RedSun

    RedSun

    The Red Sun vulnerability repository

    RedSun is a proof-of-concept security project that demonstrates a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Defender by exploiting unintended file-handling behavior. The tool leverages how Defender processes files tagged with cloud metadata, where instead of removing malicious files, the antivirus may rewrite them to their original location. By carefully manipulating this process, the exploit enables attackers to overwrite protected system files and gain SYSTEM-level privileges from a low-privilege account. The repository provides a minimal C++ implementation that showcases this behavior for research and educational purposes. It highlights flaws in endpoint protection logic and emphasizes how race conditions and file system interactions can be abused. The project is not designed as a full framework but as a focused demonstration of a real-world vulnerability. It serves as a stark example of how defensive systems can be turned into attack vectors.
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    Khronos KTX

    Khronos KTX

    KTX (Khronos Texture) Library and Tools

    KTX-Software is a suite of tools and libraries for working with Khronos Texture (KTX) files, designed and maintained by the Khronos Group. KTX is a container format for storing textures that are optimized for GPU upload, supporting modern formats like Basis Universal and ASTC. This repository includes tools for creating, validating, inspecting, and converting KTX and KTX2 files, making it essential for developers working in 3D engines, games, and visualization tools where texture streaming and compression are key.
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    Rapid YAML

    Rapid YAML

    Library to parse and emit YAML, and do it fast

    Or ryml, for short. ryml is a C++ library to parse and emit YAML, and do it fast, on everything from x64 to bare-metal chips without operating system. (If you are looking to use your programs with a YAML tree as a configuration tree with override facilities, take a look at c4conf). ryml parses both read-only and in-situ source buffers; the resulting data nodes hold only views to sub-ranges of the source buffer. No string copies or duplications are done, and no virtual functions are used. The data tree is a flat index-based structure stored in a single array. Serialization happens only at your direct request, after parsing / before emitting. Internally, the data tree representation stores only string views and has no knowledge of types, but of course, every node can have a YAML type tag. ryml makes it easy and fast to read and modify the data tree.
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    Munt
    A multi-platform software synthesiser emulating (somewhat inaccurately) pre-GM MIDI devices such as the Roland MT-32, CM-32L, CM-64 and LAPC-I. In no way endorsed by or affiliated with Roland Corp. Source hosted at: http://www.github.com/munt/
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    Arduino libraries

    Arduino libraries

    Arduino libraries and code

    This repository contains several Arduino libraries I have written to be used in applications. Most of them include example code on how the libraries can be used. Furthermore, this repository contains a few stand-alone applications. For bugs in the libraries, please fill in an issue in Github as that makes it far easier to track them. If possible provide a minimal code snippet that exposes the bug. Add information about the platform used and version etc. Also, proposals for solutions are welcome. For improvements and changes, please provide a pull request. I will try to follow up on them asap but it can take quite some time. Please try to be generic in your improvements and try to see "over the needs of your own application".
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    projectM

    projectM

    Cross-platform Music Visualization Library

    Cross-platform Music Visualization Library. Open-source and Milkdrop-compatible. Experience psychedelic and mesmerizing visuals by transforming music into equations that render a limitless array of user-contributed visualizations. projectM is an open-source project that reimplements the esteemed Winamp Milkdrop by Geiss in a more modern, cross-platform reusable library. Its purpose in life is to read an audio input and to produce mesmerizing visuals, detecting tempo, and rendering advanced equations into a limitless array of user-contributed visualizations.
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    Vcpkg

    Vcpkg

    C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS

    Vcpkg helps you manage C and C++ libraries on Windows, Linux and MacOS. This tool and ecosystem are constantly evolving, and we always appreciate contributions! After you've gotten vcpkg installed and working, you may wish to add tab completion to your shell. With CMake, you will still need to find_package and the like to use the libraries. Check out the CMake section for more information, including on using CMake with an IDE. In classic mode, vcpkg produces an "installed" tree, whose contents are changed by explicit calls to vcpkg install or vcpkg remove. The installed tree is intended for consumption by any number of projects: for example, installing a bunch of libraries and then using those libraries from Visual Studio, without additional configuration. Because the installed tree is not associated with an individual project, it's similar to tools like brew or apt, except that the installed tree is vcpkg-installation-local, rather than global to a system or user.
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    libmwaw

    libmwaw

    Import library for legacy Mac documents

    libmwaw contains import filters for many old Macintosh text document formats (MacWrite, ClarisWorks, ... ) and for some graphic, spreadsheet and presentation formats. It can handle with varying level of success about forty different formats (see the Wiki section for more details). libmwaw is based on librevenge (see https://sourceforge.net/p/libwpd/wiki/librevenge/ ).
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    SFML

    SFML

    Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

    SFML provides a simple interface to the various components of your PC, to ease the development of games and multimedia applications. It is composed of five modules: system, window, graphics, audio and network. Discover their features more in detail in the tutorials and the API documentation. With SFML, your application can compile and run out of the box on the most common operating systems: Windows, Linux, macOS and soon Android & iOS. Pre-compiled SDKs for your favorite OS are available on the download page. SFML has official bindings for the C and .Net languages. And thanks to its active community, it is also available in many other languages such as Java, Ruby, Python, Go, and more.
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    Open3D

    Open3D

    A modern library for 3D data processing

    Open3D is an open-source library that supports rapid development of software that deals with 3D data. The Open3D frontend exposes a set of carefully selected data structures and algorithms in both C++ and Python. The backend is highly optimized and is set up for parallelization. Open3D was developed from a clean slate with a small and carefully considered set of dependencies. It can be set up on different platforms and compiled from source with minimal effort. The code is clean, consistently styled, and maintained via a clear code review mechanism. Open3D has been used in a number of published research projects and is actively deployed in the cloud. We welcome contributions from the open-source community. GCC 5.X and later on Linux. XCode 10+ and later on OS X 10.14+. Visual Studio 2019 and later on Windows.
    Downloads: 30 This Week
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    U++

    U++

    C++ framework with an ide.

    U++ is BSD licensed C++ cross-platform rapid application development framework focused on programmers productivity without sacrificing runtime performance. Based on strictly deterministic design it provides an alternative to GC collected platforms.
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    rtabmap

    rtabmap

    RTAB-Map library and standalone application

    RTAB-Map (Real-Time Appearance-Based Mapping) is a RGB-D, Stereo and Lidar Graph-Based SLAM approach based on an incremental appearance-based loop closure detector. The loop closure detector uses a bag-of-words approach to determine how likely a new image comes from a previous location or a new location. When a loop closure hypothesis is accepted, a new constraint is added to the map’s graph, then a graph optimizer minimizes the errors in the map. A memory management approach is used to limit the number of locations used for loop closure detection and graph optimization so that real-time constraints on large-scale environments are always respected. RTAB-Map can be used alone with a handheld Kinect, a stereo camera or a 3D lidar for 6DoF mapping, or on a robot equipped with a laser rangefinder for 3DoF mapping.
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