List of development tools

Also see Category:Libraries

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

Libraries

Title	Description	Author
FreeTypeGX	A wrapper class for libFreeType which renders a compiled FreeType parsable font into a GX texture	Armin Tamzarian
gl2gx	OpenGL for the Wii and/or Gamecube.	noeska
GRRLIB	GRRLIB For GX Rgb Renderer Library, a simple C graphics library	NoNameNo
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
Libmii	Retrieves Mii data	Mjbauer95
libosk	An on screen keyboard	beardface
libusbkbd	Easy access to the USB keyboard interface	Cboomf
libwiigui	A GUI-making library, with a template included	Tantric
libwiikeyboard	A USB keyboard interface library.	Davyg
libwiilight	Wii Disc slot light library	Cboomf
libwiisprite	A C++ sprite library which uses GX as its underlying rendering engine	Chaosteil, (Feesh!)
libwiiupdate	Library for easy updating of your apps	wackysystems (AlexLH)
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
Sndlib	A Sound library for the Wii	Hermes
SpriteManager	A easy to use sprite handler for libwiisprite (allow freetype text rendering)	Untitled
VFSlib	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

Ported Libraries

Title	Description	Ported by
Minizip	Simple unzip implementation using zlib	Tantric
SpiderMonkey	Port of Mozilla's C implementation of JavaScript	Mjbauer95
FreeType	TTF/Type1 font support	Tantric
Box2D	2d physics library	Beardface
Mini-XML	XML library	Beardface
Lua for Wii	Extensible scripting language	Feesh!
SDL-Port	SDL port to wii with SDl Mixer, Image, gfx, and ttf	mindcry, devildante
SDL_draw	SDL_draw port to wii	GCSX
WiiPy	Python for the Wii	comex, tehpola
FreeImage	Popular image library	melpo
libpng	PNG support library	mavakadachi
libjpeg	JPEG support library	Thomas G. Lane
pthread	Bad/Basic wrapper of pthread	mavakadachi
SQLite	SQLite database library	DrTwox

Resources

Title	Description	Author
BCX-BASIC	Using BCX Basic to develop applications for the WII	georgp24
BmpToZlibGC	Compress BMPs into includable header files	Cthulhu32
Colorhelper	A short .h file which defines 19 colours and their hex codes	Pinecone
Dollz3	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
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