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1-60 of 133 projects
16,687 stars

rui314/mold

mold: A Modern Linker 🦠

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Stars16,687
11,425 stars

odin-lang/Odin

Odin Programming Language

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Stars11,425
8,985 stars

diasurgical/devilution

Diablo devolved - magic behind the 1996 computer game

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Stars8,985
6,978 stars

qvacua/vimr

VimR — Neovim GUI for macOS in Swift

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Stars6,978
6,798 stars

klange/toaruos

Complete, independent operating system built by humans.

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Stars6,798
6,743 stars

geohot/fromthetransistor

From the Transistor to the Web Browser, a rough outline for a 12 week course

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Stars6,743
6,399 stars

rizsotto/Bear

Bear is a tool that generates a compilation database for clang tooling.

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Stars6,399
4,971 stars

below/HelloSilicon

An introduction to ARM64 assembly on Apple Silicon Macs

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Stars4,971
4,220 stars

NixOS/patchelf

A small utility to modify the dynamic linker and RPATH of ELF executables

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Stars4,220
3,476 stars

pistacheio/pistache

A high-performance REST toolkit written in C++

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Stars3,476
3,096 stars

wolfcw/libfaketime

libfaketime modifies the system time for a single application

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Stars3,096
3,013 stars

intoli/exodus

Painless relocation of Linux binaries–and all of their dependencies–without containers.

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Stars3,013
2,894 stars

mstorsjo/llvm-mingw

An LLVM/Clang/LLD based mingw-w64 toolchain

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Stars2,894
2,295 stars

android/ndk

The Android Native Development Kit

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Stars2,295
1,671 stars

rust-osdev/bootloader

An experimental pure-Rust x86 bootloader

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Stars1,671
1,623 stars

gbdev/rgbds

Rednex Game Boy Development System - An assembly toolchain for the Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Color

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Stars1,623
1,570 stars

alexfru/SmallerC

Simple C compiler

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Stars1,570
1,365 stars

akavel/rsrc

Tool for embedding .ico & manifest resources in Go programs for Windows.

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Stars1,365
1,363 stars

ObKo/stm32-cmake

CMake for stm32 developing.

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Stars1,363
1,269 stars

runestubbe/Crinkler

Crinkler is an executable file compressor (or rather, a compressing linker) for compressing small 32-bit Windows demoscene executables. As of 2026, it is the most widely used tool for compressing 1k/4k/8k intros.

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Stars1,269
1,205 stars

dtolnay/no-panic

Attribute macro to require that the compiler prove a function can't ever panic

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Stars1,205
1,195 stars

michaeleisel/zld

A faster version of Apple's linker

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Stars1,195
1,174 stars

crosire/blink

A tool which allows you to edit source code of any MSVC C++ project live at runtime

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Stars1,174
1,131 stars

gianlucaborello/libprocesshider

Hide a process under Linux using the ld preloader (https://sysdig.com/blog/hiding-linux-processes-for-fun-and-profit/)

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Stars1,131
1,112 stars

io12/pwninit

pwninit - automate starting binary exploit challenges

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Stars1,112
1,105 stars

z88dk/z88dk

The development kit for over a hundred z80 family machines - c compiler, assembler, linker, libraries.

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Stars1,105
1,055 stars

cslarsen/jp2a

Converts jpg images to ASCII

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Stars1,055
992 stars

larmel/lacc

A simple, self-hosting C compiler

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Stars992
985 stars

mempodippy/vlany

Linux LD_PRELOAD rootkit (x86 and x86_64 architectures)

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Stars985
916 stars

tinyclub/open-c-book

开源书籍:《C语言编程透视》,配套视频课程《360° 剖析 Linux ELF》已上线,视频讲解更为系统和深入,欢迎订阅:https://www.cctalk.com/m/group/88089283

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Stars916
877 stars

aidansteele/osx-abi-macho-file-format-reference

Mirror of OS X ABI Mach-O File Format Reference

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Stars877
875 stars

dtolnay/linkme

Safe cross-platform linker shenanigans

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Stars875
837 stars

michaelforney/cproc

C compiler (mirror)

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Stars837
728 stars

jamesmontemagno/InAppBillingPlugin

Cross-platform In App Billing Plugin for .NET

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Stars728
690 stars

hrastnik/FaceSwap

Real-time FaceSwap application built with OpenCV and dlib

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Stars690
660 stars

kennytm/rust-ios-android

Example project for building a library for iOS + Android in Rust.

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Stars660
641 stars

pkgconf/pkgconf

package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

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Stars641
639 stars

hexhacking/xDL

:fire: xDL is an enhanced implementation of the Android DL series functions.

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Stars639
624 stars

aosp-mirror/platform_bionic

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Stars624
575 stars

horsicq/Nauz-File-Detector

Linker/Compiler/Tool detector for Windows, Linux and MacOS.

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Stars575
570 stars

XboxDev/nxdk

The cross-platform, open-source SDK to develop for original Xbox: *new* xdk

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Stars570
567 stars

gfthr/FastTextView

The best rich editor (TextView) on IOS platform ,maybe be the fastest

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Stars567
557 stars

libfirm/libfirm

graph based intermediate representation and backend for optimising compilers

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Stars557
538 stars

tyfkda/xcc

Standalone C compiler/assembler/linker/libc for x86-64/aarch64/riscv64/wasm

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Stars538
529 stars

llvm-mos/llvm-mos

Port of LLVM to the MOS 6502 and related processors

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Stars529
498 stars

andrewchambers/c

small self hosting C compiler

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Stars498
490 stars

buggins/dlangide

D language IDE based on DlangUI

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Stars490
482 stars

weissi/FRLayeredNavigationController

FRLayeredNavigationController, an iOS container view controller that works like a stack of paper with an API similar to UINavigationController.

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Stars482
436 stars

avantgardnerio/depends

The missing linker for the JVM.

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Stars436
427 stars

atheme/atheme

Atheme IRC Services

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Stars427
406 stars

forexample/package-example

CMake: config mode of find_package command (examples)

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Stars406
404 stars

google/esh

UART based embedded shell for embedded systems. Intended to be used for learning, experimenting and diagnostics.

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Stars404
389 stars

hillu/go-yara

Go bindings for YARA

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Stars389
382 stars

unoplatform/Uno.Wasm.Bootstrap

A simple nuget package to run C# code in a WASM-compatible browser

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Stars382
377 stars

JimLiu/WeiboSDK

新浪微博SDK之iOS版本

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Stars377
375 stars

MrSmith33/vox

Vox language compiler. AOT / JIT / Linker. Zero dependencies

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Stars375
369 stars

dmitrystu/sboot_stm32

Secure USB DFU1.1 bootloader for STM32

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Stars369
368 stars

libfirm/cparser

C99 parser and frontend for libfirm

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Stars368
341 stars

kubkon/zld

Zig's ld drop-in replacement

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Stars341
339 stars

LADSoft/OrangeC

OrangeC Compiler And Tool Chain

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Stars339
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