Pelles C is a complete development kit for Desktop Windows. It contains among other things an optimizing C compiler, a macro assembler, a linker, a resource compiler, a message compiler, a code signing utility, a make utility and an install builder.

It also contains an integrated development environment (IDE) with project management, debugger, profiler, source code editor, and resource editors for dialogs, menus, string tables, accelerator tables, bitmaps, icons, cursors, animated cursors, animation videos (AVI's without sound), versions and manifests.

There is support for the C standards C99, C11, C17, and C23, OpenMP version 3.1 (only), 64-bit processors (X64), 32-bit processors (X86), and most X64 intrinsics for SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AES, AVX, AVX2, and AVX512(F).

For 64-bit Windows 7/8/10/11 host, targeting 64-bit (or 32-bit) Windows Vista/7/8/10/11.

Pelles C is freeware. See terms of use.