Third Party Libraries

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Library Version Description
Apache Portable Runtime 1.1.2 A set of C functions which provide a portable and consistent interface into operating system - or simply widely useful - functionality. We primarily use it for threading and socket i/o. This is actually three packages, apr, apr-util and apr-iconv.
Boost 1.32.0 A set of portable C++ libraries which provide a wide set of functionality. Used primarily for tokenization.
TUT 2006-06-22 Unit test framework based on the use of c++ meta template programming. Used to test LL libraries.
Quicktime 7.13 Used to play in-world video clips on a prim.
libcurl 7.16.0 Handles moving data across the net in many different protocols. Used to GET/POST/PUT/DELETE web resources.
c-ares 1.3.2 Performs DNS requests and name resolves asynchronously. Used with libcurl to keep all HTTP operations async.
OpenSSL 0.9.7c Provides encryption for sensitive actions such as user login
zlib 1.2.1 zlib is a lossless data-compression library which is used for a variety of network i/o and file compression.
llMozLib 1.8.0.9 llMozLib handles rendering HTML in the viewer via an embedded Gecko (Mozilla) engine.
CG ?? cg controls some visual effects. - NOT USED BY THE NORMAL CLIENT.
OpenGL ?? 3D Graphics rendering engine.
Expat 1.95.8 XML parser.
FreeType 2.1.5 Font engine.
jpeglib 6b JPEG decoder library.
KDU 5.2.1 Kakadu (KDU) JPEG-2000 decoder library.
OGG 1.0.3 Audio control.
Vorbis 1.1.2 Audio control.
SDL 1.2.7 The Simple DirectMedia Layer libraries are used for handling input and basic window/GL setup on the Linux client.
Smartheap ?? Memory allocation.
Speedtree ?? Controls rendering of trees that are not yet implemented.
xmlrpc-epi 0.51 Controls the XML-RPC protocol.
OpenJPEG 1.0 An open-source JPEG-2000 library; a slower alternative to Kadaku
Glib 2.0.7 ??
GTK+ 2.0.9 'Native' UI components on the Linux client.
ELFIO 1.0.3 Enhanced stacktrace information on the Linux client.
Mesa 6.2.1 Provides the required OpenGL headers under Linux.
libuuid ?? Generates UUIDs under Linux. Originally a part of the ext2fs filesystem. Also see lluuid.cpp for all platforms.
FMOD 3.75 Audio engine and mp3 stream decoder