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Top 23 Win32 Open-Source Projects
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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winmerge
WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.
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ProjectReunion
The Windows App SDK empowers all Windows desktop apps with modern Windows UI, APIs, and platform features, including back-compat support, shipped via NuGet.
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MicaForEveryone
Mica For Everyone is a tool to enable backdrop effects on the title bars of Win32 apps on Windows 11.
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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openssh-portable
Portable OpenSSH, all Win32-OpenSSH releases and wiki are managed at https://github.com/powershell/Win32-OpenSSH (by PowerShell)
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space-shooter.c
A cross-platform, top-down 2D space shooter written in C using only platform libraries.
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PhotoDemon
A free portable photo editor focused on pro-grade features, high performance, and maximum usability.
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yori
Yori is a CMD replacement shell that supports backquotes, job control, and improves tab completion, file matching, aliases, command history, and more.
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win32-darkmode
Example application shows how to use undocumented dark mode API introduced in Windows 10 1809.
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Project mention: Questioning "The Value of Open Source Software" | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-12https://reactos.org/ implement some of the windows API
I’m curious, have you tried SumatraPDF (uses muPDF under the hood)?
https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf
Project mention: Solitaire: Authentic remake of the Windows 95 original | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-17
The issue is described here: WebView2 does not support passing in a CoreWebView2Environment · Issue #1170 · microsoft/WindowsAppSDK (github.com)
Project mention: MicaForEveryone VS DWMBlurGlass - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/MicaForEveryone | 2024-03-14
Project mention: Rubberduck – A free and open-source VBIDE add-in | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-25
Project mention: Our IT department is driving me insane and I need to vent | /r/sysadmin | 2023-07-01https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_install_firstuse?tabs=gui https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable
Project mention: Beginner, intermediate, and advanced c programming projects | /r/C_Programming | 2023-12-09You can do something like this, but way less polished and stick to one platform: https://github.com/tsherif/space-shooter.c/tree/master
For jumping abord, there are not very many frameworks for UI development. There is https://github.com/compnerd/swift-win32 which is less WinForms and more Common Control based. There were a couple of different attempts for WinRT to get XAML based UI systems. There was no official support for UWP, and that would likely require some tweaks to the runtime.
I know all that shit because I'm the author of Rust's WinSafe library, which is a safer Rust layer over native Win32, so I had to deal with a lot of shit like this.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Win32 projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | reactos | 14,040 |
| 2 | sumatrapdf | 12,571 |
| 3 | walk | 6,716 |
| 4 | wxWidgets | 5,732 |
| 5 | winmerge | 5,730 |
| 6 | ProjectReunion | 3,637 |
| 7 | MicaForEveryone | 3,176 |
| 8 | Rubberduck | 1,852 |
| 9 | openssh-portable | 1,696 |
| 10 | workspacer | 1,582 |
| 11 | vst3sdk | 1,529 |
| 12 | space-shooter.c | 1,317 |
| 13 | PhotoDemon | 1,248 |
| 14 | yori | 1,199 |
| 15 | ImTip | 1,206 |
| 16 | swift-win32 | 1,067 |
| 17 | Windows-10-Toast-Notifications | 954 |
| 18 | win32 | 723 |
| 19 | Amsi-Killer | 560 |
| 20 | xp | 514 |
| 21 | winsafe | 439 |
| 22 | nappgui_src | 437 |
| 23 | win32-darkmode | 406 |
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