Universal library for C++, created especially with game programmers in mind. Includes: math module (vectors, matrices, quaternions, planes, rich set of collision functions and more), string operations, conversions, smart pointers, configuration files handling, date and time module, exception class hierarchy for error handling, file system handling, stream class hierarchy, FreeList - free memory allocator, complex logger, profiler, library for threading and synchronization, tokenizer, wrappers for compression with zlib.

Language: C++
Platforms: Windows (previous version also compatible with Linux)
License: GNU LGPL

Optional support for Unicode.
Optional integration with D3DX.
Documentation made with Doxygen.

All identifiers are in English. Comments and documentation are in English and some old ones in Polish

Download latest version (December 2009):

CommonLib_9_0.zip (4.92 MB) Source code and documentation as HTML and CHM

• Browse HTML documentation online
• Browse source code online
• Discussion on forum.gamedev.pl [pl]

Linux version

Download previous version:

CommonLib_8_1.zip (4.01 MB) Source code and documentation as HTML and CHM

Linux version have been prepared by Moriturius (see: Blog, Forum).

commonlib-8.1.tar.gz (267.85 KB) Sources for Linux

commonlib_8.1-1_i386.deb (1.75 MB) Binary package for Linux Debian

Installation for sources:

tar -zxf commonlib-8.1.tar.gz
cd commonlib-8.1
./configure
make
sudo make install

Requirements: zlib-dev library.