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Aggregated List of Libraries Boost.Asio is really good. Asio is also available as a stand-alone library. ACE is also good, a bit more mature and has a couple of books to support it. C++ Network Library POCO Qt Raknet ZeroMQ (C++) nanomsg (C Library) Berkeley Sockets libevent Apache APR yield Winsock2(Windows only) wvstreams zeroc libcurl libuv (Cross-platform C library) SFML's Network Module C++ Rest SDK (Casablanca) RCF share edited Nov 3 at 20:36 community wiki 14 revs, 11 users 41% George Stocker

There is a free, open-source version of Qt and you can create commercial software with that as well.stackoverflow.com/questions/352896/qt-commercial-licenses –  otisonoza  Mar 14 '14 at 19:44 1   You might want to consider the standalone version, header only, version of Asio if you do not want to link against Boost, or add boost to your project. think-async.com/Asio –  Zadirion  Jun 28 '14 at 17:44 At all times before anyone tries to use any of these frameworks he/she should read the documentation. For example asio and boost::asio dropped support for a large amount of older compiler versions. In my case now I am unable to use newer versions of these libraries for mature projects. –  kirsche40  Jul 8 '14 at 8:37  You are better off looking for the asio library here. Note that there is a "standalone version" that is not dependent on the rest of Boost. There seems to be a lot of documentation (e.g. the PDF version is 1425 pages!). (Sorry for not editing this into the answer proper but I wasn't allowed - not enough points? Anyone with the creds to do so for me, please?) –  johanekdahl  Apr 20 at 9:08  C++ Rest SDK (Formerly known as Casablanca) at casablanca.codeplex.com is a good contender to this list.–  Viktor Sehr  Oct 27 at 13:18 add a comment