This page is intended to list all current compilers , compiler generators, interpreters , translators, tool foundations, assemblers , automatable command line interfaces (shells), etc.
Ada compilers ALGOL compilers Assemblers (Intel *86) Assemblers (Motorola 68*)
Assembler
Author
Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
Assembler
Motorola Yes
No
No
Proprietary
Assemblers (Zilog Z80)
Assembler
Author
Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
Zeus Assembler Neil Mottershead, Simon Brattel
No
No
Yes
Proprietary
Assemblers (other) Basic Compilers
Compiler
Author
Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
BaCon Peter van Eerten
No
Yes
Linux , OS X , Android MIT
BAIL
Studio 403
No
Yes
No
Open Source
BBC Basic for Windows Richard T Russel
Yes
No
No
Shareware
BlitzMax Blitz Research
Yes
Yes
No
Proprietary
Chipmunk Basic Ronald H. Nicholson, Jr.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freeware
CoolBasic Spywave
Yes
No
No
Freeware
DarkBASIC The Game Creators
Yes
No
No
Proprietary
DoyleSoft BASIC DoyleSoft
Yes
No
No
Open Source
FreeBASIC FreeBASIC Development Team
Yes
Yes
DOS
GPLv2+
Gambas Benoît Minisini No
Yes
No
GPLv2+
GLBasic Dream Design Entertainment
Yes
Yes
Linux , OS X , iOS , WinCE, Android, WebOS, PandoraProprietary
Just BASIC Shoptalk Systems
Yes
No
No
Freeware
KBasic KBasic Software
Yes
Yes
No
GPLv3+
Liberty BASIC Shoptalk Systems
Yes
No
No
Proprietary
MMBasic Geoff Graham Yes
No
Maximite ,PIC32Proprietary
NBasic SylvaWare
Yes
No
No
Freeware
PowerBASIC PowerBASIC, Inc.
Yes
No
DOS
Proprietary
PureBasic Fantaisie Software
Yes
Yes
Yes
Proprietary
QB64 Galleon Yes
Yes
Yes
LGPLv2.1
QuickBASIC Microsoft No
No
DOS
Proprietary
RapidQ William Yu
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freeware
Realbasic Real Software
Yes
Yes
Yes
Proprietary
True BASIC True BASIC
Yes
No
No
Proprietary
Visual Basic Microsoft
Yes
No
DOS
Proprietary
X11 Basic Markus Hoffmann
Yes
Yes
Android, ATARI ST, TomTom, Raspberry Pi
GPLv2
BASIC interpreters Batch compilers C compilers
Compiler
Author
Microsoft Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
AMPC
Axiomatic Solutions Sdn Bhd No
Yes
Yes
Proprietary
Dev C++
Dev Inc. Yes
No
No
Proprietary
Aztec C Manx Software Systems
No
No
CP/M , CP/M-86 , DOS , Classic Mac OS Proprietary
Amsterdam Compiler Kit Andrew Tanenbaum and Ceriel Jacobs No
Yes
Yes
BSD
CCS C Compiler CCS, Inc. Yes
Yes
Yes
Proprietary
Ch SoftIntegration, Inc Yes
OS X , FreeBSD , Linux , Solaris , HP-UX , AIX , Qnx Yes
Freeware
Clang LLVM ProjectYes
Yes
Yes
BSD
CodeWarrior Metrowerks Yes
Yes
Classic Mac OS Proprietary
CParser/libFirm Matthias Braun, Christoph Mallon and Michael Beck
Yes
Yes
Yes
GPL
DeSmet-C C-Ware Corporation No
No
DOS GPL
Digital Mars Digital Mars
Yes
No
No
Proprietary
Dignus Systems/CDignus, L.L.C
Yes (host)
Yes (host)
Z/Architecture Proprietary
Edison Design Group Edison Design Group Yes
Yes
Yes
Proprietary
GCC CGNU Project MinGW , Cygwin Yes
IBM mainframe, AmigaOS , VAX/VMS , RTEMS
GPL
Hippo-C
Hippopotamus Software, Haba Systems
No
No
Classic Mac OS , Atari ST Proprietary
IAR C/C++ Compilers IAR Systems Yes
No
No
Proprietary
Interactive C KISS Institute for Practical Robotics Yes
Unix , OS X , Linux , IRIX , Solaris , SunOS No
Freeware
LabWindows/CVI National Instruments Yes
Yes
Yes
Proprietary
Lattice C Lifeboat Associates No
Yes
DOS , OS/2 , Commodore , Amiga , Atari ST , Sinclair QL Proprietary
lcc Chris Fraser and David Hanson Yes
Yes
Yes
Freeware (source code available for non-commercial use)
Mac C Consulair
No
No
Classic Mac OS Proprietary
Mark Williams C Mark Williams Company Yes
Coherent Yes
Proprietary
Micro-C Compiler (mcc) Dunfield Development Services No
No
DOS Freeware (source code available)
Micro C Compiler (mcc) Roshan Singh
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freeware (source code available for non-commercial use)
MikroC Compiler Mikroelektronika Yes
Yes
Yes
Proprietary
MPW CApple No
No
Classic Mac OS Proprietary
Neatcc Ali Gholami Rudi No
Yes
No
BSD
Nwcc Nils Weller No
Yes
No
BSD
Open64 AMD SGI Google HP Intel Nvidia PathScale Tsinghua University and othersNo
Yes
Yes
GPL
Open Watcom Sybase and SciTech Software Yes
Linux OS/2 , DOS Sybase Open Watcom Public License
Orange C compiler David Lindauer Yes
No
DOS BSD
Pelles C Pelle Orinius Yes
No
No
Freeware
PGCC
The Portland Group Yes
Yes
Unknown
Proprietary
Portable C Compiler Stephen C. Johnson , Anders Magnusson and othersYes
Yes
Yes
BSD
Power C Mix Software No
No
Yes
Proprietary
QuickC Microsoft Yes
No
No
Proprietary
RCC (RCOR C Compiler) Rodrigo Caetano Rocha (rcor)
Yes
Yes
No
GPL
RECC (Robert Elder Compiler Collection) Robert Elder
Yes
Yes
No
Proprietary
Ritchie C Compiler (PDP-11)Dennis Ritchie and John Reiser; converted to cross-compiler by Doug Gwyn Yes
Yes
Yes
Freeware
SAS/C SAS Institute Yes
Yes
Yes IBM mainframe, AmigaOS, 68K, 88K
Proprietary
SCORE C (tcc) DDC-I Yes
Yes
Yes
Proprietary
Small-C Ron Caine , James E. Hendrix , Byte magazine Yes
Yes
CP/M , DOS Public domain
Smaller C Alexey Frunze Yes
Linux , RetroBSD DOS BSD
Small Device C Compiler Sandeep Dutta and othersYes
Yes
Unknown
GPL
SubC Nils M Holm
MinGW FreeBSD , NetBSD , Linux DOS Public domain
THINK C , Lightspeed CTHINK Technologies
No
No
Classic Mac OS Proprietary
Tiny C Compiler Fabrice Bellard Yes
Yes
No
LGPL
(Borland ) Turbo C
Embarcadero Yes
No
Yes
Proprietary - V 2.01 freely available
ups debugger (includes C interpreter)Tom Hughes, Ian Edwards, and others
No
Yes
Solaris , SunOS GPL
VBCC Volker Barthelmann Yes
Yes
Yes
Freeware (source code available, modification not allowed)
Virtual-C IDE Dieter Pawelczak
Yes
OS X No
Freeware (for non-commercial use)
Visual C++ Express Microsoft Yes
No
No
Freeware
Wind River (Diab) Compiler Wind River Systems Yes
Yes
Yes
Proprietary
XL C IBM No
AIX , Linux No
Proprietary
MCP Unisys No
No
MCP Proprietary
Source-to-source compilers This list is incomplete. A more extensive list of source-to-source compilers can be found here .
C++ compilers
Compiler
Author
Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
IDE ?Standard conformance
C++11 C++14 C++17
C++Builder Embarcadero (CodeGear )Yes
OS X , iOS [2] No
Proprietary Yes
Yes/No
Yes/No
Yes/No
(Supported via Clang.[3]
Turbo C++ ExplorerEmbarcadero (CodeGear )Yes
No
No
Freeware Yes
?
?
?
C++ Compiler
Embarcadero (CodeGear )Yes
No
No
Freeware No
?
?
?
CINT CERN Yes
Yes
BeBox , DOS , Convex, etc.X11/MIT Yes
?
?
?
Borland C++ Borland (CodeGear )Yes
No
DOS Proprietary Yes
No
No
No
Turbo C++ for DOSBorland (CodeGear )No
No
DOS Proprietary Yes
No
No
No
Clang LLVM ProjectYes
Yes
Yes
BSD-like Xcode , QtCreator (optional)Yes
Yes
Partial
CodeWarrior Metrowerks Yes
Yes
Yes
Freeware Yes
?
?
?
Comeau C/C++ Comeau Computing Yes
Yes
Yes
Proprietary No
No
No
No
CoSy compiler development system
ACE Associated Compiler Experts Yes
Yes
No
Proprietary No
?
?
?
Digital Mars Digital Mars
Yes
No
DOS
Proprietary No
?
?
?
EDGE ARM C/C++ Mentor Graphics Yes
Yes
Yes
Proprietary Yes
?
?
?
Edison Design Group Edison Design Group
Yes
Yes
Yes
Proprietary No
Yes
Yes
Partial
GCC GNU Project MinGW , Cygwin Yes
Yes
GPLv3
QtCreator , Kdevelop , Eclipse , NetBeans , Code::Blocks , Geany Yes[4]
Yes
Partial
HP aC++ Hewlett-Packard No
Yes
No
Proprietary No
?
?
?
IAR C/C++ Compilers IAR Systems Yes
No
No
Proprietary Yes
No
No
No
Intel C++ Compiler Intel Yes
Linux , OS X No
Proprietary (Freeware for most non-commercial applications)Yes
Partial
Partial
No
KAI C++ Compiler
Kuck & Associates, Inc. (bought by Intel )
No
Digital Unix , HP-UX , Linux for Intel x86 , SGI Irix 5.3,SGI Irix 6.x , Solaris 2.x No
Proprietary Unknown
?
?
?
Microtec Mentor Graphics Yes
Yes
Yes
Proprietary Yes
?
?
?
MULTI Green Hills Software Yes
Yes
Yes
Proprietary Yes
?
?
?
Open Watcom Sybase Yes
Yes
Yes
Sybase Open Watcom Public License Yes
No
No
No
Open64 HP , AMD , Tsinghua University and othersNo
Yes
No
Modified GPLv2 No
?
?
?
PathScale PathScale and othersNo
Yes
Yes
Mixed (Proprietary &Open Source &GNU General Public License )
No
?
?
?
PGCPP The Portland Group Yes
Yes
?
Proprietary Yes
?
?
?
ProDev WorkShop Silicon Graphics No
No
Yes
Proprietary Yes
?
?
?
RealView C/C++ Compiler (armcc) Keil (ARM Limited )Yes
Yes
No
Proprietary Yes
?
?
?
Salford C++ Compiler Silverfrost Yes
No
No
Proprietary Yes
?
?
?
SAS/C C++ SAS Institute Windows NT/95
AIX , Solaris/SunOS , Linux IBM mainframe , DOS Proprietary No
?
?
?
SCORE C++ (tpp) DDC-I Yes
Yes
Yes
Proprietary Yes
No
No
No
Systems/C,C++
Dignus
Yes
Linux
No
Proprietary Yes
?
?
?
Solaris Studio Oracle No
Linux, Solaris
No
Proprietary Yes
Yes
?
?
Solaris Studio Express Oracle No
Linux , Solaris No
Freeware Yes
Yes
?
?
TenDRA TenDRA Project No
Yes
No
BSD License No
?
?
?
VectorC Codeplay Yes
No
No
Proprietary No
?
?
?
Visual C++ Microsoft Yes
can target Linux, OS X, Android and iOS (since VS 2015)
No
Proprietary Yes
Yes[5]
Incomplete
Incomplete
VisualAge C++ IBM Yes
AIX, Linux
OS/2 Proprietary Yes
?
?
?
XL C/C++ IBM No
Linux (POWER and Cell ) and AIX BlueGene and VM Proprietary Eclipse Yes
?
?
Wind River (Diab) Compiler Wind River Systems Yes
Yes
Yes
Proprietary Yes
?
?
?
C# compilers COBOL compilers Common Lisp compilers LOGO compilers Liogo NET Compiler http://liogo.sourceforge.net/
The Real LOGO Compiler http://lhogho.sourceforge.net/
D compilers DIBOL/DBL compilers ECMAScript interpreters Eiffel compilers Fortran compilers
Compiler
Author
Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
IDE ?
Oracle Solaris Studio
Oracle Corporation No
Linux and SolarisNo
Proprietary Solaris Studio IDE
PGFORTRAN
The Portland Group Yes
Linux onlyYes
Proprietary Visual Studio on Windows
PathScale Compiler Suite
SiCortex No
Linux onlyNo
Proprietary Yes
Absoft Pro Fortran Absoft
Yes
Linux , OS X Yes
Proprietary Yes
G95 Andy Vaught
Yes
Yes
Yes
GPL No
GNU Fortran GNU Project Yes
Yes
Yes
GPLv3
Photran (part of Eclipse) Simply Fortran Lahey Fortran
Intel Fortran Compiler Intel Yes
Linux and OS X No
Proprietary Yes (plugins), Visual Studio on Windows, Eclipse on Linux, XCode on Mac
Lahey Fortran
Lahey Computer Systems, Inc.
Yes
Linux onlyNo
Proprietary Yes (plugins), Visual Studio on Windows
Open64 Google , HP , Intel , Nvidia , PathScale , Tsinghua University and othersYes
Yes
Yes
GPL
No
Salford Fortran 77 compiler
University of Salford
Yes
?
?
Proprietary No, but several tools included
Salford Fortran 95 compiler
Salford
Yes
?
?
Proprietary Visual Studio on Windows
FTN95 Silverfrost
Yes
No
No
Proprietary Yes
NAG Fortran Compiler Numerical Algorithms Group Yes
Yes
No
Proprietary Yes
VS Fortran IBM No
No
z/OS and z/VM Proprietary Eclipse
XL Fortran IBM No
Linux (POWER and Cell ) and AIX BlueGene Proprietary Eclipse
MCP Unisys No
No
MCP Proprietary CANDE
Open Watcom Sybase and Open Watcom ContributorsYes
Yes
Yes
Sybase Open Watcom Public License
on Windows , OS/2
Cray Cray Yes
Yes
Yes
Proprietary Yes
Open Fortran Compiler
Codethink Yes
Yes
Yes
Apache Yes
Go compilers Haskell compilers HaskellWiki maintains a list of Haskell implementations . Many of them are compilers.
Java compilers Oberon compilers Pascal compilers Perl Compilers
Compiler
Author
Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
Perl compiler
Wall/Perl developers
Yes
Yes
Yes
Default functionality of Perl and Unix
Perl Interpreters
Interpreter
Author
Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
ActivePerl interpreter
ActiveState Yes
Yes
Yes
Free
Perl interpreter
Wall/Perl developers
Yes
Yes
Yes
Default functionality of Perl and Unix
PL/I compilers Scheme compilers and interpreters
Compiler
Author
Target
Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
IDE ?
Bigloo Manuel Serrano
native, bytecode
Yes
Yes
?
GPL (compiler) and LGPL (runtime)No
Chez Scheme R. Kent Dybvig native
Yes
Yes
No
Apache 2.0No
Chicken Scheme The CHICKEN Team
C
Yes
Yes
?
BSD No
Common Larceny William Clinger, Lars Hansen
CLI
Yes
?
?
Larceny License[12]
No
Gambit Marc Feeley
C
Yes
Yes
?
LGPL No
GNU Guile GNU Project bytecode
Yes
Yes
?
LGPL No
Ikarus Scheme Abdulaziz Ghuloum
native
Yes
Yes
?
GPL No
IronScheme Llewellyn Pritchard
CLI
Yes
Yes
?
Ms-PL No
JScheme Ken Anderson, Tim Hickey, Peter Norvig
bytecode
Java
Java
Java
zlib License No
Kawa Per Bothner
bytecode
Java
Java
Java
MIT No
Larceny William Clinger, Lars Hansen
native
Yes
Yes
?
Larceny License[12]
No
MIT/GNU Scheme GNU Project native
Yes
Yes
?
GPL No
Owl Lisp Aki Helin
C
Yes
Yes
?
MIT No
Oxygen Scheme
?
?
?
?
?
?
No
Petit Larceny William Clinger, Lars Hansen
C
?
Yes
?
Larceny License[12]
No
PVTS David Pilo
bytecode
Java
Java
Java
GPL No
Racket PLT Inc.
bytecode + JIT
Yes
Yes
?
LGPL DrRacket
RScheme Donovan Kolbly
C, bytecode
?
Yes
?
Open source
No
#S
?
CLI
?
?
?
?
No
Scheme 48 Richard Kelsey, Jonathan Rees
C, bytecode
Yes
Yes
?
BSD No
SCM Aubrey Jaffer C
Yes
Yes
AmigaOS , Atari ST , Classic Mac OS , DOS , OS/2 , NOS/VE , OpenVMS LGPL No
SISC Scott G. Miller, Matthias Radestock
bytecode
Java
Java
Java
GPL and MPL No
Stalin Jeffrey Mark Siskind
C
?
Yes
?
LGPL No
Smalltalk compilers Tcl Interpreters VMS Interpreters
Interpreter
Author
Windows
Unix-like
Other OSs
License type
Default VMS
Digital No
No
Yes VAX VMS
Proprietary
Accelr8 VMS Lite
Accelr8
Yes
? Yes
Proprietary
PCDCL
PCDCL Developers
Yes
No
No
Proprietary
Rexx Interpreters CLI compilers Open source compilers Production quality, open source compilers.
The Plan 9 C compiler collection by Ken Thompson Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK) [C, Pascal, Modula-2, Occam, and BASIC] [Unix-like]Clang C/C++/Objective-C Compiler FreeBASIC [Basic] [DOS/Linux/Windows]Free Pascal [Pascal] [DOS/Linux/Windows(32/64/CE)/MacOS/NDS/GBA/..(and many more)]Roadsend PHP [PHP 5] [Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, OS X]GCC : C, C++ (G++), Java (GCJ), Ada (GNAT), Objective-C, Objective-C++, Fortran (GFortran), and Go (GCCGo); also available, but not in standard are: Modula-2, Modula-3, Pascal, PL/I, D, Mercury, VHDL; Linux, the BSDs, OS X, NeXTSTEP, Windows and BeOS, among othersLocal C compiler [C] [Linux, SPARC, MIPS]The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure which is also frequently used for research Portable C Compiler [C] [Unix-like]Open Watcom [C, C++, and Fortran] [Windows and OS/2, Linux/FreeBSD WIP]TenDRA [C/C++] [Unix-like]Tiny C Compiler [C] [Linux, Windows]S7c - A compiler for Seed7 (extensible language with many advanced features). Generates C code for GCC , Visual C or Borland C , Supports portable programs for Linux , Windows , OS X , Unix and BSD .libJIT just-in-time compilation library, a library by Rhys Weatherley, Klaus Treichel, Aleksey Demakov, and Kirill Kononenko for development of Just-In-Time compilers (JIT) in Virtual Machine implementations, Dynamic programming languages, and Scripting languages.Open64 , supported by AMD on Linux.COINS compiler infrastructure XPL PL/I dialect (several systems)
Research compilers Research compilers are mostly not robust or complete enough to handle real, large applications. They are used mostly for fast prototyping new language features and new optimizations in research areas.
Open64 : one of the most popular research compilers today, many branches exist. Here is a list of research papers from the CGO 2009 . Open64 merges the open source changes from the PathScale compiler mentioned.ROSE : an open source compiler framework to generate source-to-source analyzers and translators for C/C++ and Fortran, developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Polaris compiler for Fortran
Cetus for C/C++, successor of Polaris compiler
MILEPOST GCC : interactive plugin-based open-source research compiler that combines the strength of GCC and the flexibility of the common Interactive Compilation Interface that transforms production compilers into interactive research toolsets.Interactive Compilation Interface - a plugin system with high-level API to transform production-quality compilers such as GCC into powerful and stable research infrastructure while avoiding developing new research compilers from scratch.SUIF : inactive since 2001
MACHINE SUIF a branch focusing on machine-specific analyses and optimizations
PIPS : a source-to-source compiler framework with a Fortran 77, Fortran 95 and C front-end, focussing on advanced analyses and transformations.OpenIMPACT Compiler Phoenix optimization and analysis framework by Microsoft Very Portable Optimizer (VPO) from the University of VirginiaCOINS compiler infrastructure Trimaran for research in instruction-level parallelismParafrase-2 Inactive. It is a source-to-source vectorizing/parallelizing compiler, with Fortran and C front-ends.
The PARADIGM compiler . Derived from Parafrase-2, it is a source-to-source research compiler for distributed-memory multicomputers for Fortran 77 and HPF .
MLton standard ML compiler (SML compiler) Jikes Research Virtual machine (Jikes RVM) : a research virtual machine for Java that uses two just-in-time compilers (a non-optimizing and an optimizing one)Soot : a Java Optimization frameworkThe Scale compiler HotpathVM : a Java virtual machine using a trace-based just-in-time compiler ILDJIT : a compilation framework that targets the CIL bytecode that includes both static and dynamic compilers. ILDJIT provides a plugin-based framework for static, as well as dynamic tasks like code translations, code analysis, code optimizations, runtime instrumentation and memory management. Its plugin-based framework allows users to easily customize execution both at installation time, as well as at run-time (by dynamically loading and unloading plugins without perturbing execution). ILDJIT thus enables efficient co-design research at the architectural-boundary. Moreover, its multi-threaded design allows novel introspection of parallel compilation strategies to reduce overheads and dynamically optimize running code on today's x86 multi-core systems.Edison Design Group : provides production-quality front end compilers for C, C++, and Java (a number of the compilers listed on this page use front end source code from Edison Design Group [13] Edison Design Group makes their proprietary software available for research uses.[14]
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