Disorder and chaos are interesting phenomena. Calculating the amount
of entropy, information, or disorder in an information stream or data
collection has many interesting applications.
libdisorder provides a simple C library for calculating classic Shannon
entropy (more to come in future releases).
This port contains the programming reference for devel/libbonobo.
Check is a unit test framework for C. It features a simple interface for
defining unit tests, putting little in the way of the developer. Tests are run
in a separate address space, so Check can catch both assertion failures and code
errors that cause segmentation faults or other signals.
libedit provides command line editing functionality. Both emacs and vi key
bindings are supported. Note that the base system also includes libedit, but
this port is generally more current.
Libcwd is a thread-safe, full-featured debugging support library
for C++ developers. It includes ostream-based debug output with
custom debug channels and devices, powerful memory allocation
debugging support, as well as run-time support for printing source
file:line number information and demangled type names.
GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection supporting C and C++ for targetting crossbuilding.
A library which may be used to explain Unix and Linux system call
errors. The library is not quite a drop-in replacement for strerror, but
it comes close. Each system call has a dedicated libexplain function.
PWLib is a multi-platform code library that can be used to write
applications that will compile and run on the BSD Unixes, Windows, Linux
and a few other Unix variants. It was developed by Equivalence Ltd Pty.
It is used by the OPAL library.
The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when
a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been
reached. Furthermore, libevent also support callbacks due to signals or
regular timeouts.
libevent is meant to replace the event loop found in event driven network
servers. An application just needs to call event_dispatch() and then add
or remove events dynamically without having to change the event loop.
Currently, libevent supports /dev/poll, kqueue(2), event ports, select(2),
poll(2) and epoll(4). The internal event mechanism is completely independent
of the exposed event API, and a simple update of libevent can provide new
functionality without having to redesign the applications. As a result,
Libevent allows for portable application development and provides the most
scalable event notification mechanism available on an operating system.
Libevent can also be used for multi-threaded applications.
libgit2 is...
licensed under a very permissive license so you can use it anywhere
faster than any other Git library
written in standards compliant C99
completely multi-platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, xBSD
compiled natively under all platforms (yes, even MSVC on Windows)
re-entrant, with sane error handling
designed with a solid and consistent API
available as bindings for all major scripting languages