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322 projects503.6k total stars67.4k total forks42 languages

Open-source projects built with Make

There are currently 322 open-source projects built with Make, with a combined total of 503.6k GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is C.

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rust-cross
rust-crossjaparic/rust-cross

A comprehensive guide to cross-compiling Rust programs, covering setup, toolchains, and troubleshooting for various target architectures.

2.6k92Shell
4 years ago
SPIRV-Cross
SPIRV-CrossKhronosGroup/SPIRV-Cross

A tool and library for parsing, reflecting on, and converting SPIR-V shaders to high-level languages like GLSL, HLSL, and MSL.

2.5k709GLSL
3 days ago
Bento4
Bento4axiomatic-systems/Bento4

A C++ SDK and tools for reading, writing, and processing MP4, MPEG-DASH, HLS, and CMAF media files with support for encryption and multiple codecs.

2.5k527C++
2 months ago
The Little Go Book
The Little Go Bookkarlseguin/the-little-go-book

A free introductory book about the Go programming language, available in multiple formats and translations.

2.3k277TeX
1 month ago
Probability and Statistics Cookbook
Probability and Statistics Cookbookmavam/stat-cookbook

A concise mathematical reference covering essential topics in probability theory and statistics.

2.3k343TeX
3 years ago
GBDK
GBDKgbdk-2020/gbdk-2020

A cross-platform development kit for creating games on classic consoles like the Game Boy, NES, and Sega Master System using C.

2.3k146C
14 days ago
STAR
STARalexdobin/STAR

A fast RNA-seq aligner for mapping spliced transcript sequences to a reference genome.

2.2k548C
1 year ago
SameBoy
SameBoyLIJI32/SameBoy

A highly accurate Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator written in portable C with native macOS and SDL frontends.

2.2k271C
1 month ago
ESP-Open-SDK
ESP-Open-SDKpfalcon/esp-open-sdk

A free and open integrated SDK for ESP8266/ESP8285 chip development, providing a complete toolchain and IoT SDK.

2.0k627Makefile
4 years ago
kissfft
kissfftmborgerding/kissfft

A simple, portable Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) library for C with support for fixed and floating point data types.

2.0k361C
26 days ago
ruby-install
ruby-installpostmodern/ruby-install

A lightweight tool to install Ruby, JRuby, TruffleRuby, and mruby from source with extensive customization options.

2.0k258Shell
7 months ago
hate_crack
hate_cracktrustedsec/hate_crack

A command-line tool that automates password cracking methodologies through Hashcat with integrated wordlist management and attack orchestration.

1.9k287Python
5 days ago
oreboot
orebootoreboot/oreboot

A Rust-based downstream fork of coreboot, designed as a modern firmware implementation for booting LinuxBoot payloads.

1.8k112Rust
1 month ago
Torque 2D
Torque 2DTorqueGameEngines/Torque2D

A free, open-source, cross-platform 2D game engine built on proven Torque technology with editors and modular tools.

1.7k137C
4 days ago
RGBDS
RGBDSgbdev/rgbds

A free assembler/linker toolchain for developing games and software for the Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Color.

1.6k191C++
2 days ago
Security-Enhanced Linux
Security-Enhanced LinuxSELinuxProject/selinux

Upstream repository for the Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) userland libraries and tools, complementing the kernel's mandatory access control features.

1.6k408C
3 days ago
hashcat-utils
hashcat-utilshashcat/hashcat-utils

A collection of small, chainable command-line utilities for advanced password cracking operations.

1.6k420C
10 months ago
PHPSpy
PHPSpyadsr/phpspy

A low-overhead sampling profiler for PHP 7+ that works with CLI, Apache, and FPM without requiring code changes.

1.5k70C
3 days ago
eBay's TSV utilities
eBay's TSV utilitieseBay/tsv-utils

A suite of high-performance command line tools for filtering, summarizing, joining, and manipulating large tabular data files.

1.5k83D
4 years ago
libSRTP
libSRTPcisco/libsrtp

An open-source C library implementing the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) for encrypting and authenticating RTP/RTCP media streams.

1.4k521C
4 days ago
Mach7
Mach7solodon4/Mach7

A functional programming style pattern-matching library for C++ that provides user-definable patterns and open class hierarchies.

1.3k76C++
4 years ago
utf8proc
utf8procJuliaStrings/utf8proc

A clean C library for Unicode normalization, case-folding, and UTF-8 processing.

1.3k177C
1 month ago
SDLPoP
SDLPoPNagyD/SDLPoP

An open-source port of the classic DOS game Prince of Persia, built on SDL with modern enhancements and mod support.

1.3k166C
8 months ago
Avian
AvianReadyTalk/avian

A lightweight Java Virtual Machine and class library for building self-contained applications.

1.2k172C++
5 years ago
sexy-bash-prompt
sexy-bash-prompttwolfson/sexy-bash-prompt

A customizable Bash prompt with color-coded git status and branch information.

1.2k152Shell
9 months ago
libsodium.js
libsodium.jsjedisct1/libsodium.js

The sodium cryptography library compiled to WebAssembly and pure JavaScript for use in web applications and Node.js.

1.2k165HTML
1 month ago
aha
ahatheZiz/aha

Converts ANSI escape sequences from terminal output into HTML for colorful web display.

1.1k91C
3 years ago
Chuck
Chuckccrma/chuck

A strongly-timed, concurrent programming language for real-time sound synthesis, music creation, and audio experimentation.

1.0k147C++
1 month ago
Firmware Mod Kit
Firmware Mod KitrampageX/firmware-mod-kit

A collection of scripts and utilities to extract, modify, and rebuild Linux-based firmware images for embedded devices.

1.0k206C
6 months ago
CarpVM
CarpVMtekknolagi/carp

A small educational virtual machine written in C with instructions, registers, stack, and function calls.

98382C
5 years ago
Floppy Bird
Floppy Birdicebreaker/floppybird

A Flappy Bird clone written in 16-bit x86 assembly that runs directly on hardware without an operating system.

93662Assembly
6 years ago
Link's Awakening DX
Link's Awakening DXmojobojo/LADX-Disassembly

A complete disassembly of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX for the Game Boy Color, enabling ROM analysis and modification.

89994Assembly
11 days ago
HashLink
HashLinkHaxeFoundation/hashlink

A high-performance virtual machine for executing Haxe code across multiple platforms.

895200C
4 days ago
PicoLove
PicoLovepicolove/picolove

A free and open-source PICO-8 API implementation in LÖVE for running PICO-8 games on other platforms.

88970Lua
1 year ago
Love.js
Love.jsDavidobot/love.js

A tool that ports LÖVE games to the web using Emscripten, enabling browser-based play.

84243JavaScript
2 years ago
Fiat-Crypto
Fiat-Cryptomit-plv/fiat-crypto

Synthesizes formally verified, correct-by-construction C, Rust, Go, and other language code for cryptographic field arithmetic primitives.

839177Rocq Prover
4 days ago
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