What modern C++ libraries should be in my toolbox?

Question

I've been out of the C++ game for about 10 years and I want to get back in and start on a commercial app. What libraries are in use these days?

User interface (e.g, wxWidgets, Qt)
Database
General purpose (e.g. Boost, Loki, STL)
Threading
Testing
Network/sockets

I looking to be cross-platform compatible (as much as possible out-of-the-box).

What libraries to do you rely on? What features do they provide that make them "indispensable"?

See my answer below for a summary.

Accepted Answer

Cross-platform libraries that are free for commercial (or non-commercial) applications

Feel free to expand this list

General Purpose
Boost
Loki
MiLi
POCO
STL (of course)
STXXL (STL re-implementation for extra large data sets)
Qt
ASL
JUCE

Audio
- FMOD
- Synthesis ToolKit
Database
- SOCI
- OTL
- LMDB++
Design
- IoC Frameworks
Documents
- LibreOffice API
- PoDoFo
Graphics
- Allegro
- OGRE
- SFML
GUI
- FLTK
- GTK
- Qt
- Qwt
- wxWidgets
- VTK
Hashing
- MurmurHash3
Imaging
- Boost.GIL
- CImg
- DevIL
- EasyBMP
- FreeImage
- ITK
- OpenCV
Logging
Mocking
- Google Mock
- Hippo Mocks
- Turtle (C++ mock object library for Boost)
Multimedia
- openframework
- Cinder
- SDL
Networking
- ACE
- Boost.Asio
- ICE
Testing
Threading
- Boost.Thread
Version Control
- libgit2
Web Application Framework
- CppCMS
- Wt
XML
- Libxml2
- pugixml
- RapidXml
- TinyXML
- Xerces-C++

Links to additional lists of open source C++ libraries:

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/links/libs

Ryan Emerle

Popular Answer

Sorry for repeating some of the stuff already written, but:

UI: Qt
Database: SOCI
General purpose: Boost, Loki, STLSoft Libraries, ASL
Threading: Boost.Thread
Testing: Boost.Test
Build tools: Boost.Build, SCons

(Should at least get you started)

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