1 vcl: The C++ compatibility layer.
2 vbl: Basic Templates: Many of these things should have been in the STL.
3 vul: Utilities. This contains a number of generally useful C++ classes and functions, notably file and directory handling, command-line argument parser, string utilities, a timer, etc.
4 vnl: Numerical algorithms. The main classes in vnl are the matrix and vector classes
5 vil: Imaging
6 vgl: Geometry
Getting started with running xcv
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