# &package_name; Reference Manual

## &package_name; Overview

&package_name;, the GTK Libretro frontend framework.

Libretro is a plugin format design to implement video game console emulators, video games and similar multimedia software. Such plugins are called Libretro cores.

&package_name; is a framework easing the use of Libretro cores in conjunction with GTK.

It encourages the cores to be installed in a well defined centralized place — namely the `libretro` subdirectory of your `lib` directory — and it recommends them to come with Libretro core descriptors.

## API Reference

## Object Hierarchy

## API Index

## Index of Deprecated API

## Annotations glossary