c++ library reference in linux

Hi I am new to programming in Linux, I was wondering do Linux have any reference document that's similar to MSDN? Particularly, I am interested in an offline version of C++ Standard Library Reference and any library installed on my computer and I can use it to b开发者_Go百科rowse or look up when issuing man or info command. Also, If I want to know the implementation of a particular header file or a particular function.. what places should I look for? /include , /usr/local/include?

Use the man utility. Most packages and programming languages have standard manual pages. For example, to find out about vfprintf, type man vfprintf and you will get a manual page about all the printf variants. Some distributions may not install development manual pages by default; you may need -dev, -devel or -doc packages.

The header files are located in /usr/include and /usr/local/include.

For the C++ standard library you can download a Devhelp book with a working search index from http://en.cppreference.com. For other libraries there's usually a *.doc package with a Doxygen documentation of that library packaged into a Devhelp book.

For adding reference in devhelp just type

sudo apt-get install cppreference-doc-en-html

in the terminal, it will add up in devhelp.

Depends on your distro, but you should be able to find a package for the libstdc++ documentation, which might suit your needs. This typically installs manpages and HTML doco.

For example, on debian you can sudo apt-get install libstdc++6-4.6-doc. This will install HTML in /usr/share/doc/gcc-4.6-base/libstdc++/html/

(Adjust for your distro and libstdc++ version of course)