List of development tools
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
| Title | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|
| devkitPPC | GCC/MSys and associated utilities, standard C libraries based on newlib | WinterMute |
| libogc | Low-level libraries for interacting with Wii-specific sub-systems | shagkur |
Framework libraries
| Title | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|
| Game Framework | This is a basic framework to guide programmers in things like XML, Fonts, Images & the C++ Standard Template Library. | Titmouse |
| GRRLIB | GRRLib For GX Rgb Renderer Library, a simple C graphics library | NoNameNo |
| libwiigui | A GUI-making library, with a template included | Tantric |
| libwiisprite | A C++ sprite library which uses GX as its underlying rendering engine | Chaosteil, (Feesh!) |
| MLlib | Framework for graphics, input, audio, and so on. Friendly, easy coding | Minishlink |
| MTek-GDL | An easy to use object-oriented game development library ideal for simple and advanced Wii game projects | TheCodingBrony |
| SDL Wii | SDL port with SDL Mixer, Image, gfx, and ttf | Numerous |
| WiiLÖVE | Framework for making 2D Nintendo Wii homebrew games in Lua | HTV04 |
| Wire3D | Object oriented multiplatform 3D engine for Wii and Windows (DirectX) | antibyte |
| wit | A C++ development toolkit for event-driven programming | ahigerd |
Libraries
| Title | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|
| FreeTypeGX | A wrapper class for libFreeType which renders a compiled FreeType parsable font into a GX texture | Armin Tamzarian |
| GEMS Wifi | A library to help with the initialization of wifi related stuff for Wii and DS. | GEMISIS |
| gl2gx | OpenGL for the Wii and/or Gamecube. | noeska |
| GRRLIB-FreeType | A easy extension on GRRLIB to support FreeType. Note: GRRLIB version 4.3.0 is supporting FreeType natively. | wplaat |
| The HOMEbrew Menu Standard Library | Quickly enable a HOME menu in your programs | Arikado, Pinball Wizard, WarpedFlash |
| HomeMenu | A graphics library independent Home Menu library written in C | MetaFight |
| libCanvas | Minimum runtime image drawing extension for libwiisprite | henke37 |
| libdolfs | A read-only .dol-attached Ramdisk. | Hornpipe2 |
| Libmii | Retrieves Mii data | mdbrim |
| libnfs | NFS driver for the Wii | r-win |
| libNoise | Noise generation library. Useful for terrain, and textures, among others. | myrkr |
| LibProfile | Code Profiler | nuke |
| libsicksaxis | PS3 controllers to the Wii | xerpi |
| libosk | An on screen keyboard | Beardface |
| libusbkbd | Easy access to the USB keyboard interface | Cboomf |
| libwc24 | Library for WiiConnect24. | Yellows8 |
| libwiilight | Wii Disc slot light library | Cboomf |
| Metaphrasis | A static conversion class for transforming RGBA image buffers into various GX texture formats | Armin Tamzarian |
| PNGU | A collection of functions for handling .png files | frontier |
| SpriteManager | A easy to use sprite handler for libwiisprite (allow freetype text rendering) | Untitled |
| [1] | A simple library to read from different sources, like KDE's KIO | frontier |
| VKeyboard | Easy-to-Use Virtual Keyboard using the Wiimote. | pho |
| WiiNetwork | Wii network threaded tcp/http library | dhewg and wplaat |
| Tracing | A simple C++ library to trace logs event to file | wplaat |
Ported Libraries
| Title | Description | Ported by |
|---|---|---|
| Box2D | 2d physics library | Beardface |
| FreeImage | Popular image library | melpo |
| LibELM | A FAT driver using ELM FatFs | SquidMan |
| libntfs | NTFS driver using NTFS-3G | shareese |
| Lua for Wii | Extensible scripting language | Feesh! |
| Minizip | Simple unzip implementation using zlib | Tantric |
| SDL_draw | SDL_draw port to wii | GCSX |
| SpiderMonkey | Port of Mozilla's C implementation of JavaScript | Mjbauer95 |
| SQLite | SQLite database library | DrTwox |
| TinyXML | Simple C++ parser for XML files (Wii port) | Slappy |
| WiiPy | Python for the Wii | Comex, tehpola |
| Bullet-2.77 (Homepage) | Professional 3D physics library | ahigerd |
| libext2fs | EXT2/EXT3 and EXT4 file systems driver | Dimok |
Resources
| Title | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|
| BCX-BASIC | Using BCX Basic to develop applications for the WII | georgp24 |
| BmpToZlibGC | Compress BMPs into includable header files | Cthulhu32 |
| Code::Blocks | Code::Blocks is an IDE that can be used for cross compiling. | website |
| Colorhelper | A short .h file which defines 19 colours and their hex codes | Pinecone |
| Dollz | Compress DOL files | softdev |
| EasyIOS | An app for browsing the device tree and trying out quick IOS commands without doing builds | Beardface |
| gxtexconv | GX Texture Converter for Win32 and Linux | shagkur |
| HBCXMLGen | App to aid creation of XML files for HBC | Pinecone |
| Title Lister | Lists version info for all titles stored on the Wii's internal NAND flash | bushing |
| USB mass storage device tester | Tests USB mass storage device reading and writing | svpe |
| Wii Homebrew Cursors | Cursor images for Wii homebrew software | drmr |
| WiiBuilder | Windows software to use for Wii homebrew development | Crayon |
| Wiifuse server | Server for wiifuse to remotely mount the Wii's nand file system | dhewg |