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=== Reference implementation ===
The reference implementation of FLAC is implemented as the ''libFLAC'' core encoder & decoder library, with the main distributable program <code>flac</code> being the reference implementation of the libFLAC API. This [[codec]] API is also available in C++ as libFLAC++. The reference implementation of FLAC compiles on many platforms, including most [[Unix]] (such as [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]], [[BSD]]) and [[Unix-like]] (including [[Linux]]), [[Windows]], [[BeOS]], and [[OS/2]] operating systems. There are build systems for [[autotools]] and [[CMake]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Building FLAC |url=https://github.com/xiph/flac?tab=readme-ov-file#building-flac |access-date=4 April 2026}}</ref>. There is currently no [[multicore]] support in libFLAC, but utilities such as [[GNU parallel]] and various graphical frontends can be used to spin up multiple instances of the encoder.