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 |
| 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 | Version | Description | Ported by | DL | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minizip | 1.0.1 | Simple unzip implementation using zlib | Tantric | Download | Included |
| Javascript | SVN (1/09) | Spidermonkey Port for Wii | Mjbauer95 | spidermonkey.wii.tar.gz | Here |
| FreeType | 2.3.8 | TTF/Type1 font file support | Tantric | Download | Available |
| Box2D | SVN (6/28/2008) | 2d physics library for the wii. | Beardface | box2d-wii.zip | here |
| libmxml | mxml-2.5 | xml library for loading/saving xml configuration files to the Wii. | Beardface | libmxml | here |
| Lua for Wii | 5.1.3 port | Lua is an extensible scripting language. | Feesh! | [1] | Available |
| SDL-Port | 1.2.8 | SDL port to wii with SDl Mixer, Image, gfx, and ttf | mindcry, devildante | SDL, Mixer, Image Image with libjpeg, tff with freetype, and gfx |
SDL, Mixer, Image |
| WiiPy | alpha 2 | Python for the Wii | comex, tehpola | wiipy_a2.elf | Available |
| FreeImage | 3.10.0 port | Popular image library | melpo | FreeImage | here |
| libpng | 1.2.34 compiled | png library | mavakadachi | Libpngwii.zip | homepage |
| libjpg / libjpeg | 1.0.0 compiled | jpg library | Thomas G. Lane | download | unknown |
| pthread | NA | Bad/Basic wrapper of pthread | mavakadachi | pthread | pthread |
Resources
| Title | Description | Author |
|---|---|---|
| gxtexconv | GX Texture Converter for Win32 and Linux. | shagkur |
| USB mass storage device tester | Tests USB mass storage device reading and writing. | svpe |
| EasyIOS | An app for browsing the device tree and trying out quick IOS commands without doing builds. | Beardface |
| Wiifuse server | Server for wiifuse to remotely mount the Wii's nand file system. | dhewg |
| BCX-BASIC | Using BCX Basic to develop applications for the WII | georgp24 |
| HBCXMLGen | App to aid creation of XML files for HBC | Pinecone |
| Wii Homebrew Cursors | Cursor images for Wii homebrew software | drmr |
| Dollz3 | Compress DOL files | softdev |
| WiiBuilder | Windows software to use for Wii homebrew development. | Crayon |
| BmpToZlibGC | Compress BMPs into includable header files | Cthulhu32 |
| Colorhelper | A short .h file which defines 19 colours and their hex codes | Pinecone |