The standard base libraries provide a vendor-neutral (or Linux/Unix-like) C programming interface to the base functionality provided by such commonly used libraries as glib, openssl, and so on. These libraries:

• enable a faster application development in Symbian OS via familiar standard interfaces and programming model.
• reduce the porting effort of existing components to Symbian OS mobile phones.
• reduce the effort to have a common code base for multiple platforms.
• enable easier porting of open source software (OSS) components on top of Symbian OS mobile phones.