High-quality libraries for C++

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We all know about Boost.

What other free C++ libraries are worth using? Why? Are they easily usable with common compilers?

I'd just like to point out that I believe this is a real question, but it is a dupe of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/777764/what-modern-c-libraries-should-be-in-my-toolbox — , Jul 12 '09 at 18:25

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 07 '12 at 07:57

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Qt is a multiplatform framework that provides you not only with a great GUI toolkit, but also with a lot of different libraries and functionality that makes your life a lot easier, including a reimplementation of many standard C++ features, easing their use even further. It's heavily used in the KDE desktop environment in Linux.

It's an awesome framework. C++ almost feels like Java with it.

edited Jun 07 '12 at 07:57

Wladimir Palant

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answered Jul 12 '09 at 17:59

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score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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See: What modern C++ libraries should be in my toolbox?

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answered Jul 12 '09 at 18:16

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 12 '09 at 17:55

Blimey .... it totally depends on what you want to do. There are THOUSANDS of cross-platform and platform specific libraries for C++ and any one of them may or may not be useful to what you want to do. Personally, I have found very little of actual use in boost. Each to their own I guess but what is useful to one person is not, necessarily, useful to the next.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 12 '09 at 17:45

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I like Xerces XML parser. It is portable and has rich generating and validating capabilities.

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 12 '09 at 17:46

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OpenCV is really great for anything related to computer vision

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 12 '09 at 18:00

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I like wxWidgets.

answered Jul 12 '09 at 18:00

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score 1 · Answer 7 · edited Dec 30 '16 at 07:09

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best unit testing framework by far: https://github.com/google/googletest/

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score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Jul 12 '09 at 18:08

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Allegro is my favorite for making small games.

answered Jul 12 '09 at 18:08

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score 0 · Answer 9 · edited Jul 12 '09 at 21:37

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What kind of libraries do you have in mind? Lots of wheel reinventing can be avoided if you use Boost.

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Jared Oberhaus

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High-quality libraries for C++

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