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These '''Development Tools''' can help you develop homebrew applications and games for the Wii. The most important tool for Wii development is [[DevkitPPC]], a port of the GCC toolchain along with supporting system libraries. The development tools listed below make development easier or to add additional functionality.

== Core development ==

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| [[devkitPPC]]
| GCC/MSys and associated utilities, standard C libraries based on newlib
| WinterMute
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| [[libogc]]
| Low-level libraries for interacting with Wii-specific sub-systems
| shagkur
|}

== Framework libraries ==

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| [[GameFramework|Game Framework]]
| This is a basic framework to guide programmers in things like XML, Fonts, Images & the C++ Standard Template Library. 
| [[User:Titmouse|Titmouse]]
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| [[GRRLIB]]
| GRRLib For GX Rgb Renderer Library, a simple C graphics library
| NoNameNo
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| [[libwiigui]]
| A GUI-making library, with a template included
| [[User:Tantric|Tantric]]
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| [[libwiisprite]]
| A C++ sprite library which uses GX as its underlying rendering engine
| Chaosteil, (Feesh!)
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| [[MLlib]]
| Framework for graphics, input, audio, and so on. Friendly, easy coding
| [[User:Minishlink|Minishlink]]
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| [[MTek-GDL]]
| An easy to use object-oriented game development library ideal for simple and advanced Wii game projects
| [[User:TheCodingBrony|TheCodingBrony]]
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| [[SDL Wii]]
| SDL port with SDL Mixer, Image, gfx, and ttf
| Numerous
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| [[WiiLÖVE]]
| Framework for making 2D Nintendo Wii homebrew games in Lua
| [[User:HTV04|HTV04]]
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| [[Wire3D]]
| Object oriented multiplatform 3D engine for Wii and Windows (DirectX)
| [[User:Antibyte|antibyte]]
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| [[wit]]
| A C++ development toolkit for event-driven programming
| [[User:Ahigerd|ahigerd]]
|}

== Libraries ==
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| [[FreeTypeGX]]
| A wrapper class for libFreeType which renders a compiled FreeType parsable font into a GX texture
| [[User:ArminTamzarian|Armin Tamzarian]]
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| [[GEMS Wifi]]
| A library to help with the initialization of wifi related stuff for Wii and DS.
| [[User:GEMISIS|GEMISIS]]
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| [[gl2gx]]
| OpenGL for the Wii and/or Gamecube.
| noeska
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| [http://www.plaatsoft.nl/wiibrew/grrlib-4-2-x-freetype-support GRRLIB-FreeType]
| A easy extension on [[GRRLIB]] to support FreeType. Note: GRRLIB version 4.3.0 is supporting FreeType natively.
| [[User:wplaat|wplaat]]
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| [[The HOMEbrew Menu Standard Library]]
| Quickly enable a HOME menu in your programs
| [[User:Arikado|Arikado]], [[User:pinball_wizard|Pinball Wizard]], [[User:Warpedflash|WarpedFlash]]
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| [[HomeMenu]]
| A graphics library independent Home Menu library written in C
| [[User:MetaFight|MetaFight]]
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| [[libCanvas]]
| Minimum runtime image drawing extension for [[libwiisprite]]
| [[User:henke37|henke37]]
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| [[libdolfs]]
| A read-only .dol-attached Ramdisk.
| [[User:Hornpipe2|Hornpipe2]]
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| [[Libmii]]
| Retrieves Mii data
| [[User:Mdbrim|mdbrim]]
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| [[libnfs]]
| NFS driver for the Wii
| [[User:r-win|r-win]]
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| [[libNoise]]
| Noise generation library. Useful for terrain, and textures, among others.
| [[User:myrkr|myrkr]]
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| [[LibProfile]]
| Code Profiler
| [[User:nuke|nuke]]
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| [[libsicksaxis]]
| PS3 controllers to the Wii
| [[User:Xerpi|xerpi]]
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| [[libosk]]
| An on screen keyboard
| [[User:Beardface|Beardface]]
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| [[User:Cboomf/libusbkbd|libusbkbd]]
| Easy access to the USB keyboard interface
| [[User:Cboomf|Cboomf]]
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| [[libwc24]]
| Library for WiiConnect24.
| [[User:Yellows8|Yellows8]]
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| [[libwiilight]]
| Wii Disc slot light library
| [[User:Cboomf|Cboomf]]
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| [[Metaphrasis]]
| A static conversion class for transforming RGBA image buffers into various GX texture formats
| [[User:ArminTamzarian|Armin Tamzarian]]
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| [[PNGU]]
| A collection of functions for handling .png files
| [[User:frontier|frontier]]
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| [[SpriteManager]]
| A easy to use sprite handler for libwiisprite (allow freetype text rendering)
| [[User:Untitled|Untitled]]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100430061620/http://frontier-dev.net/2008/05/virtual-file-system.html]
| A simple library to read from different sources, like KDE's KIO
| [[User:frontier|frontier]]
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| [http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=L8UKN5O5 VKeyboard]
| Easy-to-Use Virtual Keyboard using the Wiimote.
| pho
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| [http://www.plaatsoft.nl/wiibrew/wii-network-library WiiNetwork]
| Wii network threaded tcp/http library
| [[User:dhewg|dhewg]] and [[User:wplaat|wplaat]]  
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| [http://www.plaatsoft.nl/wiibrew/wii-trace-module Tracing]
| A simple C++ library to trace logs event to file
| [[User:wplaat|wplaat]]
|}

== Ported Libraries ==
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| [https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/wiichat/box2d-wii.zip Box2D]
| 2d physics library
| [[User:Beardface|Beardface]]
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| [https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/melpo/FreeImage-Wii.zip FreeImage]
| Popular image library
| melpo
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| [[LibELM]]
| A FAT driver using ELM FatFs
| [[User:SquidMan|SquidMan]]
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| [[libntfs]]
| NTFS driver using NTFS-3G
| shareese
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| [[Lua for Wii]]
| Extensible scripting language
| Feesh!
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| [[Media:Minizip.zip|Minizip]]
| Simple unzip implementation using zlib
| [[User:Tantric|Tantric]]
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| [[SDL_draw]]
| SDL_draw port to wii
| GCSX
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| [[SpiderMonkey]]
| Port of Mozilla's C implementation of JavaScript
| [[User:Mjbauer95|Mjbauer95]]
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| [http://wiimp.googlecode.com/files/sqlite3.6.11_wii.zip SQLite]
| SQLite database library
| [[User:DrTwox|DrTwox]]
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| [[TinyXML]]
| Simple C++ parser for XML files (Wii port)
| [[User:Slappy|Slappy]]
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| [[WiiPy]]
| Python for the Wii
| [[User:Comex|Comex]], [[User:tehpola|tehpola]]
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| [http://www.greenmaw.com/ahigerd/bullet-2.77-wii.zip Bullet-2.77] ([http://bulletphysics.org/ Homepage])
| Professional 3D physics library
| [[User:ahigerd|ahigerd]]
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| [[libext2fs]]
| EXT2/EXT3 and EXT4 file systems driver
| [[User:Dimok|Dimok]]
|}

== Resources ==
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| [[BCX-BASIC]]
| Using BCX Basic to develop applications for the WII
| [[User:georgp24|georgp24]]
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| [[BmpToZlibGC]]
| Compress BMPs into includable header files
| [[User:Cthulhu32|Cthulhu32]]
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| [[Code::Blocks]]
| Code::Blocks is an IDE that can be used for cross compiling.
| [http://www.codeblocks.org/ website]
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| [[Colorhelper]]
| A short .h file which defines 19 colours and their hex codes
| [[User:Pinecone|Pinecone]]
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| [[Dollz]]
| Compress DOL files
| softdev
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| [[EasyIOS]]
| An app for browsing the device tree and trying out quick IOS commands without doing builds
| Beardface
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| [[gxtexconv]]
| GX Texture Converter for Win32 and Linux
| shagkur
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| [[HBCXMLGen]]
| App to aid creation of XML files for HBC
| [[User:Pinecone|Pinecone]]
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| [[Title Lister]]
| Lists version info for all titles stored on the Wii's internal NAND flash
| [[User:bushing|bushing]]
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| [[USB mass storage device tester]]
| Tests USB mass storage device reading and writing
| svpe 
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| [[Wii Homebrew Cursors]]
| Cursor images for Wii homebrew software
| [[User:drmr|drmr]]
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| [[WiiBuilder]]
| Windows software to use for Wii homebrew development
| [[User:Crayon|Crayon]]
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| [[Wiifuse server]]
| Server for [[wiifuse]] to remotely mount the Wii's nand file system
| [[User:dhewg|dhewg]]

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