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