Lightweight C++ Gui Library [closed]

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I want to create GUI applications with C++ on Windows. I have downloaded Qt, and it works well, but it has so much stuff in it and so many header files that I really don't use. It is a nice framework, but it has more than just GUI.

Are there any lighter GUI libraries out there for Windows C++ that is "just GUI"?

Answer 1

Try eGui (see here or here) or WTL.

Answer 2

wxWidgets

Answer 3

try GTK with Glade3.

Answer 4

IUP is the smallest one i know, both in terms of learning curve, DLL size and features

Answer 5

Even if wxWidgets is named here already:

wxWidgets!

Its a great and valuable Framwork (API, Class Library, whatever you may call it).

BUT: You can divide the functionality of this library into many small parts (base, core, gui, internet, xml) and use them, when necessary.

If you really want to make GOOD GUI applications, you have to use a GOOD API. wxWidgets is absolutly free (QT is not), only needs a small overhead in binary form, linked as dll or o-file is it about 2Megs, but has to offer all that you ever need to program great applications...

And wxWidgets is much more lighter than QT... and even better... :)

Try it...

Answer 6

JUCE is fairly light weight, it can be as simple as one .cpp & one .h file. (Look at amalgamated JUCE) It doesn't look like a standard windows app however. On the other hand, it is cross platform.