The wildmagic5 libraries are meant to help developers perform computing tasks in the following specialties:

- computer graphics;
- mathematics;
- physics;
- numerical methods;
- image analysis.
the source code is divided in such a manner that is provides these libraries: ..
- the libcore library contains some basic support that applications
need. some of this support is for convenience during development;
- the libmathematics library;
- the libgraphics library;
- the libphysics library;
- the libapplications library.
this package ships the library development files.