Lightweight C++ Gui Library

Question

Hello everyone! I want to create GUI applications with C++ on Windows. I have downloaded Qt, and it works well, but it has sooooo much stuff in it and so many header files that I really don't use. It is a nice framework, but it has more than just GUI.

Are there any lighter gui libs out there for Windows C++ that is "just gui"?

Thanks

Answer 1

wxWidgets

Answer 2

FLTK, if you are serious about lightweight.

http://www.fltk.org/

edit:
Blurb from the website:

FLTK is designed to be small and modular enough to be statically linked, but works fine as a shared library. FLTK also includes an excellent UI builder called FLUID that can be used to create applications in minutes.

I'll add that its mature and stable, too.

Answer 3

Try eGui (see here or here) or WTL.

Answer 4

JUCE is fairly light weight, it can be as simple as one .cpp & one .h file. (Look at amalgamated JUCE) It doesn't look like a standard windows app however. On the other hand, it is cross platform.

Answer 5

try GTK with Glade3.