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A selection of free tools for Windows developing

This is a list of tools I used under Windows to develop my applications FX-Repton and FX-Zacman (excluding wxWidgets).

• C/C++ compiler: GNU CC. I suggest to use the MinGW version of this compiler, witch output interfaces with the standard Windows DLL libraries (read: good generated code quality, small executable sizes).
• Developing environment: Dev-C++. The standard distribution already includes the MinGW compiler. Many optionals packages, like the SDL library, are available and can be easily installed.
• GUI Toolkit for cross compiling: FOX Toolkit or wxWidgets.
  • FOX is a free, lightweight, fast, and clean toolkit useful to make the same code running under Windows and UNIX/X-Window (requires only a recompilation). A precompiled FOX package is available below;
  • wxWidgets is a complete, free multiplatform library, supporting UNIX/Windows/Mac-OS and embedded devices.
• Graphics:
  • for generating 3D scenes, the POV-Ray raytracer;
  • for editing bitmaps, the GIMP image manipulation program;
  • for editing vector graphics, Inkscape.
• Windows resources editing:
  • for editing icons, PC Magazine's IconEdit32 (see the PC Magazine site or get a copy from this address);
  • for editing resources, Resource Hacker.
• If you want, you might compress the final executables using the UPX executable packer.
• Installation distribution: the Inno Setup Compiler.

FOX Toolkit packages

Prebuilt package for Dev-C++

2005/02/15
WARNING: this package is old, outdated and no more works under the latest versions of Dev-C++.
I will make a new release shortly!

[sig] (Last updated: 2003-07-05) This is a prebuilt a Dev-C++ package that includes the FOX library 1.1.30 and the documentation (tested with the Dev-C++ 4.9.8.1 and GCC 3.2).

To start a FOX project, simply select "New project", choose the "FOX Application" template from the "GUI" category and modify the created skeleton application.

Prebuilt package for MSVC 6/7 and Intel

Please follow this link.

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