From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 16 17:50:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BC9137B423 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 17:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8H0lwW85610; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:17:58 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:17:58 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Francisco Reyes Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: C programming on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000917101758.B42114@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from fran@reyes.somos.net on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 06:27:51PM -0400 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 16 September 2000 at 18:27:51 -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Any hints on C programming on FreeBSD? > In particular: > > -Good function list reference. This is one of the things I always admired > of the Borland C compiler for DOS. It had a great online reference. Well, we have a pretty good reference too, sections 2 and 3 of the manual. Cross references and overviews are a little more of a problem. > So far I have started to read the GNU Info file. That's not idea. Which one? > -Any good libraries. I noticed that some ports use Glib. This seems > mostly a data structure (Linked list, trees, etc) library. How about > any UI, Hmm. I'm sure there are more than you would like to see. Check out the /usr/ports/devel. > TCP/IP library. That's in libc. > Is there a C library index like Cpan for Perl. Searching for > libraries on Freshmeat returned too many irrelevant results. The best you can find are intro(2) and intro(3). Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message