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General structure of most toolkits - including Notes C and C++ APIs

Most toolkits has a standard feel to them. Once you seen a couple of toolkits, you start to recognize the structure and content of others as well. This is a good thing because toolkit-makers often try to build their toolkits according to the defacto-standards.

So what do you often find in a toolkit ?

Since programming toolkit focus on one or more programming languages, we assume that you have gotten your hands on a C or C++ library when you apply these general "what to look for"-rules.

For the discussion of general toolkits below, we assume that a toolkit is installed into a directory. For the sake of simplicity, the root-directory of the general toolkit presented here are:

E:\Toolkits\LibraryX

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Header files

Library files

Documentation

Samples!

Source code

See Also

General knowledge nice to know before we start!

General guide to any toolkit!

One way to organize your tookits and source code

General quirks you need to be aware of