Mac OS X for Unix Geeks

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. ...