Free software tools for programming in Windows

Here’s a very complete list of free software for Windows programming IDE, text editors, language implementers and more

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• Mono: free version of the Microsoft development platform, based on standards ECMA (European Computer Manufacturers Association) and CLR (Common Language Runtime), the runtime environment of common language. It has a very active community. It should have before the href=”https://vessoft.es/software/windows/download/microsoftvc” MS Visual C ++ to install.

• href=”https://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Download/” SharpDevelop IDE (integrated development environment), an integrated development environment for various programming languages ​​: C #, Visual Basic .NET, C #, Python, Ruby, Boo and C ++. For C # in Microsoft .NET, previously you required to have href=”https://www.microsoft.com/es-es/download/details.aspx?id=17718″ installed. NET Framework 4.0, and it is recommended to also install the .NET Framework Software Development Kit, version 4.0, but not required. Other options are href=”https://www.eclipse.org/cdt/downloads.php” Eclipse C / C ++ SR2 Moon, CodeLite > Open Watcom C / C ++, wxDev-C ++ and href=”https://www.bloodshed.net/” Dev-C ++ C / C ++; href=”https://netbeans.org/” NetBeans IDE Java EE, BlueJ and href=”https://www.eclipse.org/” Moon Eclipse Java EE Java SR2; href=”https://www.openwatcom.com/index.php/Main_Page” Open Watcom Fortran, of course, Fortran; Racket href=”https://racket-lang.org/” Scheme, MzScheme and MrEd; href=”https://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=downloads” Lazarus and its extensions for 64-bit Windows and WinCE, for the compiler Free Pascal href=”https://www.freepascal.org/download.var” ; href=”https://www.qt.io/download/” Qt Creator to develop Qt applications, library multiplatform graphical user interfaces; href=”https://dev.eiffel.com/Main_Page” Eiffel Studio to Eiffel language; and the great href=”https://www.geany.org/Main/HomePage” Geany and Light Table.

• free text editor oriented programming, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It has a number of tools to edit, manage files and customize them with its own macro language and dozens of plugins. It works with href=”https://java.com/es/” Java. Other options are > Komodo Edit > Notepad ++, and SciTE.

• There are various implementers programming languages ​​, and Scala, which has characteristics of functional programming and oriented and requires Java; CLISP href=”https://www.clisp.org/” (for Common Lisp), which it contains an interpreter, compiler, debugger and other tools; href=”https://q-lang.sourceforge.net/index.html” Qpad (for Q), based on term rewriting and an IDE included to edit and run programs; Erlang href=”https://www.erlang.org/” to concurrent programming and fault tolerant systems; href=”https://www.swi-prolog.org/” SWI-Prolog to Prolog, of course; href=”https://rubyinstaller.org/” Ruby Installer for Ruby, the interpreter of this language extensions and an editing environment and implementation; Python href=”https://www.python.org/downloads/” increasingly employed so that it is simple and elegant; Euphoria href=”https://openeuphoria.org/wiki/view/DownloadEuphoria.wc” , easy, flexible, multiplatform and very fast; href=”https://libre.adacore.com/download/” GNAT Programming Studio, Ada; and href=”https://www.haskell.org/platform/windows.html” Haskell Platform to program in pure functional language Haskell and brings the compiler Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Moreover, href=”https://www.parrot.org/source.html” Parrot is a virtual machine runs efficiently all kinds of dynamic languages ​​<. strong>

• > BASIC compiler of 32 bits and similar to that of MS-QuickBASIC syntax, but more advanced, with pointers, object orientation, and so on.

• XML Copy Editor: edit XML files, to authorize documents DTD, XML Schema or RELAX NG, performing XSLT transformations, XPath expressions testing and more. Alternatively href=”https://sourceforge.net/projects/sernafree/?source=navbar” Serna Free. And href=”https://sourceforge.net/projects/xtrans/” XTrans is a editor XSLT template which can also be tested. XPath

• version control system from which we can draw on are Subversion, developed to replace CVS (Concurrent Version System, with your client TortoiseSVN, which is integrated in the Windows Shell; href=”https://darcs.net/” darcs, interactive and programmed in Haskell; monotone, where every client is also a server; Git, perfect for large projects; href=”https://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Download” Mercurial Light and fast for large projects distributed; and href=”https://cvsgui.sourceforge.net/download.html” WinCVS, for access to servers CVS (Concurrent Version System) with a simple graphical interface.

• href=”https://www.bugzilla.org/download/” Bugzilla it is a utilizadísimo Bug Tracking System (bug tracking system), you need Perl for use. href=”https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDownload” Trac, a wiki that integrates and requires Pynthon, and MantisBT, based in PHP and MySQL, MS SQL or PostgreSQL, are other options.

• We have editors gettext catalogs for translation, and href=”https://virtaal.translatehouse.org/download.html” Virtaal to files .po and .mo and other formats (TBX, TMX, XLIFF, Qt Linguist, Qt Phrase Book and WordFast TM); and href=”https://poedit.net/download” Poedit to po files, for which the source code is free, but not later versions installer to the 1.5.7.

• Regular Expression Editor: tests the PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions), sequences of characters in a search pattern, and check your correction. We can also use regular expressions testator href=”https://laurent.riesterer.free.fr/regexp/” Visual RegExp.

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• href=”https://wxwidgets.org/downloads/” wxWidgets: a C ++ library to develop interfaces Graphical User (GUI) that can be compiled on many platforms. Also it has href=”https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxformbuilder/” wxFormBuilder generator visual graphical interfaces. On the other hand, href=”https://pencil.evolus.vn/” Pencil used to produce prototypes of graphical interfaces that can then be exported in different formats.

• href=”https://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php” Inno Setup and Inno Setup Tool: the first is a tool for create program installers from scripts, which would result a bit cumbersome to develop manually if it had the second tool, used to generating installation scripts visually. Other options are href=”https://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download” NSIS and its complement HM NIS Edit href=”https://izpack.org/” IzPack, Java, and WiX for Windows.

• GnuWin32 Indent: changes the appearance of a C program including or removing blanks, performs conversions between different writing styles in this format and help make the code more readable

• Doxygen: documentation system for C, C ++, Java, IDL, Objective-C and partially C #, PHP and D is able to generate in HTML, RTF, PostScript, LaTeX and man of Unix from source application.