September 2002
Beginner to intermediate
216 pages
7h 43m
English
Content preview from Mac OS X for Unix Geeks
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Interesting and Important Libraries
Table 5-2 lists some significant libraries included with Mac OS X and Table 5-3 lists some significant libraries that do not come with Mac OS X (but are available through Fink).
Table 5-2. Important Mac OS X libraries
|
Library |
Description |
Headers |
|
libalias |
A packet aliasing library for masquerading and network address translation |
Not included in Mac OS X. See the network_cmds module in the Darwin CVS archive. |
|
libl.a |
The lex runtime library |
Not applicable. Lexical analyzers that you generate with lex have all the necessary definitions. |
|
libMallocDebug |
A library for the MallocDebug utility (/Developer/Applications) |
Not applicable.You don’t need to do anything special with your code to use this utility. |
|
libncurses(libcurses is available for backward compatibility.) |
The new curses screen library, a set of functions for controlling a terminal’s display screen |
/usr/include/ncurses.h (curses.h is available for backward compatibility.) |
|
libobjc |
The library for the GNU Objective-C compiler |
/usr/include/objc/* |
|
libpcap |
Packet capture library |
/usr/include/pcap* |
|
libssl and libcrypto |
An OpenSSL: Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols, as well as a full-strength, general-purpose cryptography library |
/usr/include/openssl/* |
|
libtcl |
The Tcl runtime library |
/usr/include/tcl.h |
|
liby.a |
The yacc runtime library |
Not applicable. ... |
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