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782 Part VI . Programming in Linux Table 28-1 (continued) API Category Description 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 allows command-line arguments to be aliased via configuration files. sdl Multimedia The Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) provides a generic, cross-platform API for low-level access to audio, keyboards, mice, joysticks, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D framebuffers. 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 zlib provides a general-purpose, thread-safe data Compression compression library that implements the data formats defined by RFC1950, RFC1951, and RFC1952 (see www.ietf.org/rfc.html to find any of the RFCs just mentioned). As you can see, a wide variety of APIs exist for performing an equally wide variety of programming tasks. Chances are pretty good that if you need to perform some sort of programming task, someone has written a library that you can use to do it. Summary The phrase Linux programming environments and interfaces is shorthand that masks a rich set of features, which, taken together, only partially characterize the activity of programming on a Linux system.
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