Any significant application in the world that is supported on multiple platforms creates its own toolkit for performing basic functions like file and network I/O. This may be due to some functions not being available on different platforms: e.g.
WSASocket on Windows, or simply a requirement for more advanced basic functions like
file_get_contents() in PHP. Popular toolkits or frameworks include
Glib (not to be confused with
glibc),
Qt (Trolltech),
Mozilla, and
Apache runtimes.
In choosing Glib we gain a well used thread-safe event manager and a native C API allowing purposing in C++ too, its also a petite library without tying to a graphics system like
Gtk+ and can be built upon with
GObjects and an embedded web server
LibSoup to easily implement a web administrative interface.
A variety of toolkits or frameworks are available from different organizations under different licenses.
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