Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks, Second Edition

Interesting and Important Libraries

Table 9-2 lists some significant libraries included with Mac OS X, while Table 9-3 lists some significant libraries that do not come with Mac OS X (but are available through Fink).

Table 9-2. 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 open source toolkit implementing Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Versions 2 and 3, Transport Layer Security (TLS) Version 1, and 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; parsers that you generate with yacc ...