The PCRE library is used by many
programs.
pilot-link PalmOS pilot-link implements a library for communicating with Palm
handheld devices and with other devices that adhere to the PalmOS
interface standard. gnome-pilot and KPilot use pilot-link.
popt General popt is a C library for parsing command-line parameters. popt
was heavily influenced by the getopt() and getopt_long()
functions, but improves on them by allowing more powerful
argument expansion and allowing command-line arguments to be
aliased via configuration files.
sdl Multimedia The Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) provides a generic, crossplatform
API for low-level access to audio, keyboards, mice,
joysticks, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D framebuffers. This is
a popular API for many Linux games (see www.libsdl.org).
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API Category Description
t1lib Graphics t1lib provides an API for generating character and string glyphs from
Adobe Type 1 fonts.
taglib Audio TagLib is a library for reading and editing the meta-data stored in
ID3v1 and ID3v2 (MP3 files) and Ogg Vorbis comments and ID3
tags (Ogg Vorbis files).
zlib Data compression zlib provides a general-purpose, thread-safe data compression
library that implements the data formats defined by RFC1950,
RFC1951, and RFC1952 (see www.
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