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Also known as wxWindows, Windows and X widgets

wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows) is a widget toolkit and tools library for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for cross-platform applications. wxWidgets enables a program's GUI code to compile and run on several computer platforms with no significant code changes. A wide choice of compilers and other tools to use with wxWidgets facilitates development of sophisticated applications. wxWidgets supports a comprehensive range of popular operating systems and graphical libraries, both proprietary and free.

Key facts

Software.name
wxWidgets
Software.logo
wxWidgets.svg
Software.logo size
128px
Software.collapsible
yes
Software.author
Julian Smart
Software.developer
Various developers and contributors
Software.programming_language
C++
Software.operating_system
Cross-platform
Software.genre
Development library
Software.license
wxWidgets Licence
Software license.name
wxWindows Licence
Software license.OSI approved
Yes
Software license.Debian approved
Yes
Software license.Free Software
Yes
Software license.GPL compatible
Yes
Software license.copyleft
Yes
Software license.copyfree
No
Software license.linking
Yes

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wxWidgets is a free and open source cross-platform C++ framework for writing advanced GUI applications using native controls. wxWidgets allows you to write native-looking GUI applications for all the major desktop platforms and also helps with abstracting the differences in the non-GUI aspects between them. It is free for the use in both open source and commercial applications, comes with the full, easy to read and modify, source and extensive documentation and a collection of more than a hundred examples. You can learn more about wxWidgets at and read its documentation online at This version of wxWidgets supports the following primary platforms: Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11 (32/64 bit Intel and ARM64). Most Unix variants using the GTK+ toolkit (version 2.6 or newer or 3.x). macOS (10.10 or newer) using Cocoa under both amd64 and ARM platforms. For building the library, please see platform-specific documentation under docs/ directory, e.g. here are the instructions for wxGTK, wxMSW and wxOSX. If you're building the sources checked out from Git, and not from a released version, please see these additional Git-specific notes. Contributions to wxWidgets are always welcome, please don't hesitate to submit your patches or pull requests! If you are not sure how to do this, please check our guidelines explaining it. Not all contributions have to be code, you can also help by improving documentation or translations, for which we have a separate page with more details.

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Wikidata facts

Official website
www.wxwidgets.org
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source code repository URL
github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets
Commons category
WxWidgets
software version identifier
3.3.2
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13 sections
Contents
  • Portability and deployment
  • History
  • Official support
  • Supported platforms
  • External ports
  • Supported compilers
  • Programming language bindings
  • RAD tools and IDEs for wxWidgets
  • Applications built using wxWidgets
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows) is a widget toolkit and tools library for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for cross-platform applications. wxWidgets enables a program's GUI code to compile and run on several computer platforms with no significant code changes. A wide choice of compilers and other tools to use with wxWidgets facilitates development of sophisticated applications. wxWidgets supports a comprehensive range of popular operating systems and graphical libraries, both proprietary and free.

The project was started under the name wxWindows in 1992 by Julian Smart at the University of Edinburgh. The project was renamed wxWidgets in 2004 in response to a trademark claim by Microsoft UK.

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