Free supported windows platforms software for linux

SIMD Cross-platform headers is a cross- platform, cross-compiler, cross CPU C/C++ header collection that aids the creation portable vectorized (SIMD) C/C++ code.
SIMD Cross-platform headerst supports (or partially supports) x86 (MMX/SSE/SSE2) GCC and MSVC, PPC Altivec GCC and CodeWarrior, ARM GCC, and software-emulated SIMD.
NOTE: Code must be 16-byte aligned. Align to 16 when allocating memory.
X86/XSCALE (Intel) vs. PowerPC/MIPS
While the PowerPC and MIPS SIMD instructions take 2 source vectors and a destination vector, the Intel platforms only take a source and destination. Example:
PPC/MIPS can do:
C = A + B
X86 can only do:
A = A + B (or A+=B)
Code written either way will work on the X86, and still be faster than 387 math, but preserving the registers takes significant overhead (Disassemble the test program for an example. The prints preserve, the disassembly test does not.) For the fastest code between systems, write your SIMD math as the X86 expects, manually preserving SIMD variables.
At least GCC for PPC doesnt seem to have any issues figuring out how to deal with a source and destination memory address being the same.
Enhancements:
- Created file with some i386, GCC dialect

DirectX support for Wine project enables DirectX 9 support for Wine, which is useful for games and 3D graphics.
DirectX support for Wine is a set of patches against Wine to implement DirectX 9. It allows modern games and 3D applications to run under Wine.
The patches include many experimental and beta features that have not yet made it into the stable Wine source tree.
The aim of the project is to provide full support for DirectX 8 and 9 so that all games and 3D applications will run on Linux or any other platform that Wine supports.
Main features:
- Shared wined3d codebase for Direct3D 8 and 9
- Hardware non-power2 texstures
- Improved compressed texture support
- Many more texture formats supported
- Offscreen texture improvements
- Colour corrections for textures
- A tonne of bug fixes and other improvements from earlier releases
Enhancements:
- Reworked support for non-power2 textures
- Support for Vertex buffer objects
- Support for caching
- Hardware vertex shaders
- Partial tidyup of vertex declarations
- Better support for compressed textures
- Fix for texturing problems in Axis and Allies and Evil Genius
- Fix for model corruption in Pirates
- Movies in Pirates
- A Fix for the lines on the landscape in Axis and Allies
- Crash fixes in fixupvertices with indexes data
- Numerous other performance improvements

uriparser project is a strictly RFC 3986 compliant URI parsing library. uriparser is cross-platform, fast, supports Unicode and is licensed under the New BSD license.
Main features:
- Cross-platform (Unix, Windows, Mac OS X, ...)
- Strictly compliant to RFC 3986 (latest RFC on URIs to date)
- Fast (linear input length time complexity)
- Unicode support
- No external dependencies
- Uses unit testing
- Licensed under the New BSD license
Enhancements:
- This release fixes several bugs revealed by test cases from 4Suite.

OpenDDS is an open-source C++ implementation of the Object Management Groups Data Distribution Service for Real-time Systems specification (version 1.0). This project implements most of the minimum profile of the Data-Centric Publish-Subscribe (DCPS) layer of the DDS specification.
DDS provides demanding applications with a high-level, object-oriented publish-subscribe model while enabling efficient, direct data transfer between publishers and subscribers. More information about the OMGs DDS specification can be found at the OMG Data Distribution portal.
OpenDDS is built on the ACE (ADAPTIVE Communication Environment) abstraction layer to provide platform portability. OpenDDS also leverages capabilities of TAO (The ACE ORB), such as its IDL compiler and as the basis of the OpenDDS DCPS Information Repository (DCPSInfoRepo). In addition, OpenDDS leverages MPC to ease the maintenance burden of supporting multiple build environments and platforms. For a current list of supported platforms and build environments, see the OpenDDS FAQ.
Enhancements:
- Support for built-in CORBA:: sequences was added.
- DDS entities have changed to local IDL types and now support zero-copy reads.
- User-defined DDS types are now correctly scoped.

Cross Platform Toolkit Library (xtklib) is a C++ based framework for highly object-oriented cross-platform programming.
In particular, the library provides a full abstraction layer between its API and the main services offered by the underlying operating system(Thread, processes,GUI,Filesystem,etc.) plus a set of generic utilities (Strings,Data structures,etc.).
Unlike other famous libraries, xtklib makes full use of all features of C++ like RTTI, Templates, Exceptions thus obtaining a strongly object-oriented design with a Java-like sensation.
The library is composed by two main modules: "Base" and "Widgets". The target operating systems are Windows and Unix(Linux and BSD in primis) with a plan to move also towards other systems.
Main features:
- Use of modern C++ - use of many powerfull features offered by modern C++ like exceptions,RTTI,templates and namespaces allows faster development,improves code readability,and reduces programming errors.
- Strong Object-Oriented design - designed to meet requirements of modern software industry: modularity, low coupling, high cohesion,information hiding. Design patterns and advanced class hierarchies are extensively used in all the library.
- Ease of use - Clean and intuitive programming interface with a Java-like sensation.
- Complete - Features supported includes:
- Basic services: Thread, Synchronization, Filesystem access, Processes, Networking.
- Advanced services: I/O Streams, Logging.
- Debugging tools: Stack tracing, Memory Leak detection.
- Gui widgets (Work in progress): Windows,Frames,Layout managers,common controls,advanced controls.
- Generic utilities: complete data structures framework, String class with unicode support.
- Full unicode support: native support to unicode, conversion to/from different charsets.
- And many others: the list is too much long to enumerate all minor but extremely usefull features.
- Cross Platform - Supports various systems and compilers.
- XTKlib is known to work under:
- Windows XP (x86)
- Visual C++ versions 7.1, 8.0
- MinGW32
- Linux (x86, x86_64)
- GCC 3.4
- Compatibility with other platforms and compilers are not excluded.(If you can compile/use xtklib with a non listed compiler/platform let us know about that, thanks)
- Fast - Although performance are not the main goal of this library (exceptions and RTTI have a tradeoff in this meaning), code agility and execution speed are often taken in consideration during development, thus leaving a performance advantage compared to interpreted programming languages(eg. Java,C#) or scripting languages(eg. Python,Ruby,Perl).
Enhancements:
- This is the first release with a working "Widgets" module, although it has only basic features.
- This release is provided for testing and development only.

ARSC Really Simple Chat is a Web chat system that uses PHP and MySQL.
ARSC Really Simple Chat project works with every browser in existence, even text-based ones, and it uses the server push technique or, if possible, its own socket server.
It is very simple to install and use ARSC. It includes some important features, such as operators, kick-ing, whispering, and more.
Multiple rooms and different languages are available. To run ARSC on your site, you need a Web server that understands PHP, and can connect to a MySQL database.
Main features:
- very easy installation
- multiple languages supported
- multiple browsers/platforms supported (even text-based ones)
- comfortable administration interface
- private rooms
- two-leveled moderation system with message queue and Moderator/VIP roles
- graphical smilies
- freely definable layouts, with different layouts possible for individual rooms and/or users
- ID-Cards for registered users, with individual guestbooks on every ID-Card
- text-browser interface even allows chatting with braille screen readers
- security: uses sha1 hashes for passwords and sessionids, and every single user input is checked against a regular expression of allowed values
- works with PHP 4 and PHP 5
- works with safe_mode = On and register_globals = Off
Once installed on your webserver, ARSC provides a chat interface to the visitors of your site. Your visitors need no special plugins or additional software to chat, only their webbrowser. ARSC is licensed under the GPL, which means it is free (like in "free speech"). It also comes at no cost (like in "free beer"). You may even use it in your own software projects.
Chatting with ARSC is very comfortable. If you have a modern browser with frame support and JavaScript support enabled, ARSC makes use of these technologies. If you have an older browser, or you have JavaScript disabled, or even if you have a browser that does not support frames, you can still chat with ARSC. Let me say it this way: With ARSC, chatting on a webpage is possible with every known browser under the sun that is still in use nowadays.
In contrary to many other PHP/MySQL webchats, ARSC can be run using a non-forking socketserver to handle all message transport. Other chats use the httpd process to handle the message transport, what causes a big overhead, while the socketserver of ARSC works very ressource-friendly and can handle way more users. The server is completely written in PHP and thus does not need any special requirements besides a cgi-bin installation of PHP 4.1.0 or above. Current versions of PHP (4.3.x) have been tested and work. If you are not able to compile a cgi-bin version of PHP or you may not start a socketserver on your machine, ARSC still offers the traditional message handling via the httpd process or even via meta refresh.
Enhancements:
- A bug that broke the installation routine was fixed.

++Skype is a C++ library for skype add-on platform independent software development.
++Skype library is platform independent, easy to use, and easy to extend because of the flexible library design, inspired by modern C++ design ideas.
Performance is one of the goals: only compile-time polymorphism is used. The library license allows you to develop freely redistributed applications without any fee.
Main features:
- Platform independent (Now only linux and windows platforms are supported, but we are looking into the future! Smiling);
- Easy to use;
- Easy to extend because of the flexible library design, inspired by modern C++ design ideas;
- Perfomance was on of our goals - only compile-time polymorphism is used;
- Library license allows you to develop freely redistributed applications without any fee;
- Open source.
Enhancements:
- X11 Protocol support is included in the Linux implementation of the library.
- D-BUS library is no longer a requirement.
- You can remote control Skype via the X11 protocol.