External dependencies

ORBit depends on a number of external libraries.

libc

ORBit uses many standard C library functions to do memory allocation, string handling, hostname lookup, general networking, and so on.

libm

ORBit uses the pow() function from the math library. However, the it is being used is to compute powers of ten, so we wrote a small replacement function to remove this dependency.

glib

Glib is a support library initially developed for the GTK+⁴ widget library. Glib contains a lot of application support code, such as event loops, thread handling, memory allocation and various data types such as strings, lists and hashtables.