The need to encrypt sensitive information is more important than ever. Luckily, the C++ class library Crypto++ enables you to encrypt your application data regularly and painlessly.

The zlib compression library enables developers to integrate lossless compression into their application suites with ease. The benefits are saved time, space, and therefore money.

The days of locking your audio applications into one platform are over. PortAudio, a free, cross-platform audio I/O library, enables you to record and/or play sound using a simple callback function.

The International Component for Unicode (ICU) library can save you from being hopelessly mired in numerous character encodings as your C/C++ application matures into internationalization and localization.

Once you commit your data structures to a graph representation with the Boost Graph Library, the possibilities of sorting, searching, and connecting networks are limitless.

The Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG) tool connects C/C++ programs with a variety of scripting languages. Learn how to make your application's internal API callable from within Perl scripts.