Useful Tools

Over the years I’ve built many useful, quality open source tools. These are the most important. All are native, standalone, compiled applications, and except w64devkit, all multi-platform.

w64devkit: comprehensive development suite for Windows

Not just one tool, but a collection of hundreds of 100% native software development tools for developing native C, C++, and Fortran software on Windows. It is distributed as a small 7z archive that unzips and runs in place (“portable”) requiring no install nor uninstall. It has everything you need to develop robust, efficient, professional software on Windows.

dcmake: a GUI debugger for CMake

Prefix cmake with d when running a CMake configuration to drive the configuration through a Imgui interface. Step through CMakeLists.txt, and other configuration sources line by line, inspecting variables and other state as they change. It’s great for understanding and debugging CMake builds, and you’ll miss it when using other build systems. dcmake is included in w64devkit.

Elfeed2: web feed reader application

The official successor to Elfeed in the form of a native, standalone GUI application. It embodies the same keyboard-driven UI philosophy and “filter” UI for viewing chosen subsets of your feeds. Supports all major operating systems.

aas-sign: code signing for Windows via Azure

A command line tool for interacting with Azure Artifact Signing. Unlike the official Azure command line tool, this is a fast, native, standalone program, specialized in requesting and attaching Authenticode signatures. Every Windows executable I distribute is signed with aas-sign. It’s also been adopted by Msys2.

u-config: a minimal, portable pkg-config clone

“micro-config” is a small, highly portable pkg-config / pkgconf clone with first-class Windows support. Integrated into the w64devkit toolchain, and a drop-in replacement on other platforms. It is the most robust, most performant, most tested pkg-config available.