List of compilers

This page is intended to list all current compilers, compiler generators, interpreters, translators, etc.

C/C++ compilers

Compiler	Author	Windows	UNIX-like	Other OSs	License type	IDE?
Djgpp	DJ Delorie	No	No	DOS	Open Source	No
AMPC	Axiomatic Solutions Sdn Bhd	Yes	Yes	Yes	Proprietary	Yes
C++ Builder	CodeGear (Embarcadero)	Yes	No	No	Proprietary	Yes
Turbo C++ Explorer	CodeGear (Embarcadero)	Yes	No	No	Freeware	Yes
C++ Compiler	CodeGear (Embarcadero)	Yes	No	No	Freeware	No
Borland C++	Borland (CodeGear)	Yes	No	DOS / WIN16	Proprietary	Yes
Turbo C++ for DOS	Borland (CodeGear)	No	No	DOS	Proprietary	Yes
Clang	Apple Inc.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Open Source	No
Comeau C/C++	Comeau Computing	Yes	Yes	Yes	Proprietary	?
CoSy compiler development system	ACE Associated Compiler Experts	Yes	Yes	No	Proprietary	No
Digital Mars	Digital Mars	Yes	No	DOS	Proprietary	Yes
EDGE ARM C/C++	Mentor Graphics	Yes	Yes	Yes	Proprietary	Yes
MinGW	MinGW	Yes	No	No	Open source	No
GCC	GNU	Yes	Yes	No	Open source	No
HP aC++	Hewlett-Packard	No	Yes	No	Proprietary	No
Intel C++ Compiler	Intel	Yes	Yes	Yes	Proprietary	Yes
LabWindows/CVI	National Instruments	Yes	Yes	Yes	Proprietary	Yes
Local C compiler	Chris Fraser and David Hanson	Yes	Yes	Yes	Open source	Windows
Microtec	Mentor Graphics	Yes	Yes	Yes	Proprietary	Yes
MULTI	Green Hills Software	Yes	Yes	Yes	Proprietary	Yes
Nwcc	Nils Weller	Yes	Yes	Yes	Open source	No
Open Watcom	Sybase	Yes	No	Yes	Open source	Yes
PathScale	SiCortex	No	Yes	No	Proprietary/Open Source	No
Pelles C	Pelle Orinius	Yes	No	No	Freeware	Yes
PGI Workstation	PGI	Yes	Yes	No	Proprietary	Yes
Portable C Compiler	Anders Magnusson and others	Yes	Yes	Yes	BSD style/Open Source	No
ProDev WorkShop	Silicon Graphics	No	No	Yes	Proprietary	Yes
RealView C/C++ Compiler (armcc)	KEIL (ARM Limited)	Yes	Yes	?	Proprietary	Yes
SAS/C	SAS Institute	?	?	IBM mainframe, AmigaOS	Proprietary	?
Sun Studio	Sun Microsystems	No	Yes	Yes	Proprietary	Yes
TenDRA	TenDRA Project	No	Yes	No	Open source	No
Tiny C Compiler	Fabrice Bellard	Yes	Yes	No	Open source	No
VectorC	Codeplay	Yes	No	No	Proprietary	No
Visual Studio	Microsoft	Yes	No	No	Proprietary	Yes
VisualAge	IBM	No	Yes	Yes	Proprietary	Yes
XL C/C++	IBM	No	Yes	Yes	Proprietary	No

Pascal Compilers

Compiler	Author	Windows	UNIX-like	Other OSs	License type	IDE?
Delphi	CodeGear (Embarcadero Technologies)	Yes	No	No	Proprietary	Yes
Free Pascal	Free Pascal	Yes	Yes	Yes	Open Source	Yes
GNU Pascal	GNU	Yes	Yes	Yes	Open source	No
Object Pascal for Windows	Borland (CodeGear)	Yes(3.x)	No	No	Proprietary	Yes
Turbo Pascal	CodeGear (Borland)	No	No	Yes	Freeware	Yes

Open source compilers

Production quality, open source compilers.

• Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK) [C, Pascal, Modula-2, Occam, and BASIC] [UNIX-like]
• FreeBASIC [Basic] [DOS/Linux/Windows]
• Free Pascal [Pascal] [DOS/Linux/Windows(32/64/CE)/MacOS/NDS/GBA/..(and many more)]
• Lazarus [Pascal, Object Pascal] [DOS/Linux/Windows(32/64/CE)/MacOS/NDS/GBA/..(and many more)]
• Roadsend PHP [PHP 5] [Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, Mac OS X]
• GCC [C, C++ (G++), Java (GCJ), Ada (GNAT), Objective-C, Objective-C++, and Fortran (GFortran). Also available, but not in standard are: Modula-2, Modula-3, Pascal, PL/I, D, Mercury, VHDL] [Linux, the BSDs, Mac OS X, NeXTSTEP, Microsoft Windows and BeOS, among others]
• Local C compiler [C] [Linux, SPARC, MIPS]
• 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]

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. One is the Open Research Compiler (ORC) for Itanium processors. (The PathScale compiler mentioned above is based on Open64.)
  • http://upc.lbl.gov/ One of the branches of the Open64 compiler.
• SUIF: inactive since 2001
  • MACHINE SUIF a branch focusing on machine-specific analyses and optimizations
• MILEPOST GCC: machine learning based self-tuning research compiler that reuses collective optimization knowledge among different programs and architectures
• ROSE compiler: an open source compiler framework to generate source-to-source analyzers and translators, developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Polaris compiler for Fortran
  • Cetus for C/C++, successor of Polaris compiler
• The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
• OpenIMPACT Compiler
• Phoenix optimization and analysis framework by Microsoft
• Very Portable Optimizer (VPO) from the University of Virginia
• COINS compiler infrastructure
• Trimaran for research in instruction-level parallelism
• Parafrase-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(RVM): a research compiler for JAVA
• Soot: a Java Optimization framework
• The Scale compiler
• HotpathVM: a Java virtual machine using a trace-based just-in-time compiler
• libFirm a completely graph based SSA intermediate representation for compilers

See also

• C compiler
• Comparison of integrated development environments

External links

• http://www.compunity.org/resources/compilers/index.php
• An incomplete list of C++ compilers, maintained by C++'s inventor: Bjarne Stroustrup
• Free C/C++ Compilers and Interpreters
• http://www.idiom.com/free-compilers/
• Compilers resources
• LCPC'04 Mini Workshop of Compiler Research Infrastructures