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	Version	Description	Creator	DL	Source
FreeTypeGX	0.2.3	A wrapper class for libFreeType which renders a compiled FreeType parsable font into a GX texture.	Armin Tamzarian	FreeTypeGX Home	Available
gl2gx	alpha 1.4	OpenGL for the Wii and/or Gamecube.	noeska	gl2gx	Available
GRRLIB	4.0.0	GRRLIB For GX Rgb Renderer Library, a simple C graphics library.	NoNameNo	GRRLIB	Available
The HOMEbrew Menu Standard Library	Initial	Quickly enable a HOME menu in your programs	Arikado, Pinball Wizard, WarpedFlash	Download	Download
HomeMenu	-	A graphics library independent Home Menu library written in C.	MetaFight	Google Code Download	Available
libCanvas	not numbered	Minimum runtime image drawing extension for libwiisprite	henke37	SVN://henke37.cjb.net/canvas/	Available
Libmii	0.1alpha	Retrieves Mii data	Mjbauer95	See page for download	Available
libosk	0.4.4	An on screen keyboard.	beardface	libosk-0.4.4	On Request
libusbkbd	1	Easy access to the USB keyboard interface.	Cboomf	download	Available
libwiikeyboard	0.2b	A USB keyboard interface library.	Davyg	download	download
libwiilight	beta 1	Wii Disc slot light library	Cboomf	libwiilight	Available
libwiisprite	0.3.0b	A C++ sprite library which uses GX as its underlying rendering engine.	Chaosteil, (Feesh!)	libwiisprite	Available
libwiiupdate	1.0a	Library for easy updating of your apps.	wackysystems (AlexLH)	[1]	On Request
Metaphrasis	0.1.0	A static conversion class for transforming RGBA image buffers into various GX texture formats.	Armin Tamzarian	Metaphrasis Home	Available
PNGU	0.2b	A collection of functions for handling .png files.	frontier	[2]	Available
Sndlib	BETA 1.0	A Sound library for the Wii.	Hermes	Release notes	Available
SpriteManager	1.0	A easy to use sprite handler for libwiisprite (allow freetype text rendering)	Untitled	Gx-mod [3]	Available
VFSlib	0.1a	A simple library to read from different sources, like KDE's KIO.	frontier	frontier's blog	Available
VKeyboard	0.1	Easy-to-Use Virtual Keyboard using the Wiimote.	pho	VKey 0.1	Available
WiiNetwork	1.0	Wii network threaded tcp/http library	dhewg and wplaat	Download	Available

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!	[4]	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	Version	Description	Creator	DL	Source
gxtexconv	beta 1	GX Texture Converter for Win32 and Linux.	shagkur	[5]	No
USB mass storage device tester	Version 3	Tests USB mass storage device reading and writing.	svpe	[6]	Available
EasyIOS		An app for browsing the device tree and trying out quick IOS commands without doing builds.	Beardface	EasyIOS Mirror	Available
Wiifuse server		Server for wiifuse to remotely mount the Wii's nand file system.	dhewg	wiifuse server	Available
BCX-BASIC	1.0	Using BCX Basic to develop applications for the WII	georgp24	BCX_for_WII.zip	included
HBCXMLGen	0.0.1r2	App to aid creation of XML files for HBC	Pinecone	see page	irrelevant and boring
Wii Homebrew Cursors	1.1a	Cursor images for Wii homebrew software	drmr	from Wiibrew page	n/a
Dollz3	v3.0	Compress DOL files	softdev	Download	Unknown
WiiBuilder	1.1	Windows software to use for Wii homebrew development.	Crayon	Download	N/A
BmpToZlibGC	1.1	Compress BMPs into includable header files	Cthulhu32	Download	Source
Colorhelper	n/a	A short .h file which defines 19 colours and their hex codes	Pinecone	see page	n/a

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