General purpose library for standard C?

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Is there any widely known general purpose library for standard C. I'm thinking of something like what Boost is for C++.

I found the C POSIX library... any other?

possible duplicate of [Good STL-like library for C.](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2540/good-stl-like-library-for-c) — Paul R, Jul 08 '10 at 20:57

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 08 '10 at 19:23

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GLib, GObject, and GTK+ (links to Wikipedia) are good places to start. (GLib, GObject, and GTK are part of the GTK+ Project).

For numerical functions and algebra, there are the GNU Scientific Library, and implementations of CLAPACK and CBLAS (GSL includes CBLAS).

Please see also Wikipedia's list of numerical libraries. If you find more, consider contributing to the Wiki.

edited Jul 08 '10 at 19:23

Cascabel

answered Jul 08 '10 at 18:55

maxwellb

@Jefromi: thanks for the edits. @Paul R: looks like the "related question link train" is as follows: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2540 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/305611 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/649649 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/668501 – maxwellb Jul 09 '10 at 20:56

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 08 '10 at 19:01

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I have used GLib which provides almost every functionality of standard c libs.

answered Jul 08 '10 at 19:01

Praveen S

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