Tools and Utilities

The following list of tools and utilites provide a wealth of resources for people developing software and applications under Linux. If you know of any tools or resources missing from this list, please email our Suggestion Box.

• Pro Fortran for Linux
  Absoft Fortran 90 and FORTRAN 77 compilers are compatible with Red Hat 5.0, glibc, and all Linux kernel release 2.0 tools; gcc, g77, f2c, linker, assembler, and make utility. Commercial software from Absoft, prices range from $495.00 to $1199.00. Academic discounts available.

• CodeWarrior
  CodeWarrior for Red Hat Linux, GNU edition, is an industrial-strength, easy-to-use Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for building Linux applications. It bundles with native C/C++ compilers, assemblers, and linkers hosted on RedHat Linux. Commercial software from Metrowerks, suggested retail price of $99.00.

• AcuCorp
  ANSI-85 COBOL Compiler.

• Allegro Allegro started life as a game programming library for DOS games using the DJGPP compiler. It now supports (with varying degrees of completeness and stability) Linux console, Unix X-Windows, Microsoft windows (with Visual C++,RSXNT, and MingWin). It includes graphics up to 32 bit resolution , digital sound playback and recording, Midi, joystick support, SVGA mouse handling, programmable timer support, GUI functions etc. etc. etc.

• Builder Xcessory PRO
  GUI builder for C/C++

• C-Forge
  C-Forge is an integrated development environment for Unix. It provides full project management and complete edit/compile/debug cycle support. FREE evaluation version available.

• Clustor
  

• Code Crusader

• Comeau C++

• CM3

• Cygnus Solutions
  Cygnus Solutions is the open source software technology leader and an innovating force in Internet software infrastructure.

• D-ISAM

• DISLIN

• Euphoria
  

• Faircom Corporation

• FORTRAN Compiler

• FreeBuilder

• Glg Toolkit
  RAD tool for developing real-time dynamic graphics and HMIs for C/C++ and Java.

• GNAT
  The Complete Ada 95 Development Environment.

• The GNUstep/MediaBook Developer CD

• HPFPlus

• IDL
  IDL, the Interactive Data Language, is the ideal software for data analysis, visualization, and cross-platform application development. IDL combines all of the tools you need for a ny type of project - from "quick-look," interactive analysis and display to large-scale commercial programming projects. All in an easy-to-use, fully extensible environment.

• Inferno

• Irie Pascal for Linux
  Irie Pascal for Linux is a multi-platform Pascal compiler/interpreter. The current version 1.10 has recently been released. Irie Pascal is designed for beginners, who want to learn to program in Pascal, as well as for experienced programmers, who want to write small to medium-sized applications (including CGI scripts).

• JX

• KAI C++
  

• KDevelop
  The goal of the KDevelop-Project is to provide an easy to use C/C++ IDE (Integrated Development Enviroment) for Unix/X11/KDE. We all try to do our best to reach this working together hand in hand, thus achieving the best possible result for a working development environment to run under KDE.

• Lahey Fortran Compiler

• MagicDraw UML
  MagicDraw is inexpensive, full featured UML modeling tool. Implemented as 100 % Pure Java it runs on all major platforms. The tool is compatible with Rational Rose 98, it can read and write model (.mdl) files, can do round-trip engineering (reverse engineering + code generation) for Java, C++ and CORBA IDL.

• Magic Software
  Magic Software offers innovative solutions based on Magic - our highly productive, cross-platform development technology for e-commerce and enterprise level applications.

• Name: MetaEdit+
  Current version: 3.0
  Contact: info@metacase.com
  Available from: http://www.metacase.com/
  Description: MetaEdit+ is a modeling tool that integrates different systems modeling methods within the same data dictionary. MetaEdit+ comes with support for over 50 methods, from BSP to UML, and code generation to C++, CORBA IDL, Smalltalk, Java, Delphi, and SQL. It has a full multi-user repository, and diagram, matrix and table editors. You can change method symbols, property dialogs, reports, and code generation.

• Name: MetaEdit+ Method Workbench: Build your own CASE tool
  Current version: 3.0
  Contact: info@metacase.com
  Available from: http://www.metacase.com/
  Description: MetaEdit+ Method Workbench is a metaCASE tool which allows build your own CASE tool. The created tool can support your visual modeling methods, code generators, and link to your other development tools. All the method modifications can be done quickly and "on the fly" with form based method engineering tools.

• MicroFocus Object COBOL Developer Suite for UNIX
  Merant (which used to be MicroFocus) markets their "MicroFocus Object COBOL Developer Suite for UNIX" and "MicroFocus Application Server for Unix or OSX for Unix" for Linux (specifically, Red Hat v6.0 on Intel 80386/80486/Pentium platform).

• Moonshine
  Moonshine is a customizable integrated software development environment for Linux that supports a wide variety of languages. The application provides a graphical file viewer, a configurable text editor, and a help engine. The individual modules provide icons, menus, help files, context highlighting rules for text, and utilities specific to the module.

• MpegTV SDK
  

• Netwide Assembler (NASM)
  NASM is the Netwide Assembler, a free portable assembler for the Intel 80x86 microprocessor series, which uses the traditional Intel instruction mnemonics and syntax.

• Numerical Algorithms Group

• ObjectManual

• Perl
  Perl is a high-level programming language. It derives from the ubiquitous C programming language and to a lesser extent from sed, awk, the Unix shell, and at least a dozen other tools and languages. Perl's process, file, and text manipulation facilities make it particularly well-suited for tasks involving quick prototyping, system utilities, software tools, system management tasks, database access, graphical programming, networking, and world wide web programming. These strengths make it especially popular with system administrators and CGI script authors.

• PHP
  PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.

• PHPGem
  It is a program which permit to accelerate creating of PHP-scripts for working with tables.

• The Portland Group

• PUPS - The Portable UNIX Programming System Project

• powerRPC
  PowerRPC is a powerful ONC RPC development tool that generates client/server stub code for generic multi-argument C functions and makes them callable over a TCP/IP network. Data structures of arbitrary complexity, such as structs, arrays, linked list, and unions, can be transferred over the network between machines of different architectures. From Netbula LLC.

• Python
  Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. It incorporates modules, exceptions, dynamic typing, very high level dynamic data types, and classes. Python is portable -- it runs on many brands of UNIX, on the Mac, and on PCs under MS-DOS, Windows, Windows NT, and OS/2.

• RM/COBOL
  RM/COBOL is a very popular ANSI 85 COBOL system for UNIX and Windows platforms. Several thousand companies use it for application development, on several million computers worldwide.

• SDL SMPEG Player Library
  SMPEG is based on UC Berkeley's mpeg_play software MPEG decoder and SPLAY, an mpeg audio decoder created by Woo-jae Jung.

• SHELF
  SHELF is a development of the powerful and popular ELF programming lanugage that many thousands of programmers have used to create rich, visual applications. ELF has been an embedded part of a commercial Office suite, Applixware and now this same language has been decoupled from Applixware into a standalone environment.

• SNiFF+ Penguin IDE Integrated Development Enviroment for writing C/C++ applications for Linux.

• Tcl/Tk

• TestDesigner

• VARKON

• Instant ASP

• Via-Voice SDK by IBM
  The SDK and Run Time Kit provide the necessary tools to develop applications that incorporate speech recognition, both dictation and command and control, using the Linux for x86s operating system.

• VIBE

• Visual Numerics, Inc.

• Xaudio SDK
  

• Xi Graphics

Development Resources on the Web

Looking for information about developing under Linux? Try these links:

• Java-Linux Information

• The Linux FORTRAN Information Page.

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