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General-Purpose C Libraries: Not Many Good Options

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With the great popularity of C, you would think that a wide variety of solutions would have flourished

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djohnston ·
Quoting:However, glib is very much a child of UNIX/Linux parentage. To run it on Windows, you have to include the MinGW package. And while there is a minimal set of Win32-specific APIs, these are few in number and of limited use. The documentation is conspicuous in ignoring Windows and matters related to the platform.


Does Microsoft go to great lengths to document its native APIs, libraries and system calls? What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
tracyanne ·
Quoting:The documentation is conspicuous in ignoring Windows and matters related to the platform.


There should be a lot more that going on I feel.
gus3 ·
The glib documentation could be an example to Windows developers of what good docs are like.

That is, they COULD be...

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