Information on Windows third-party binaries that come with Splunk Enterprise

Learn about the third-party Windows binaries that come with the Splunk Enterprise and the Splunk universal forwarder packages.

For more information about the universal forwarder, see About forwarding and receiving data in the Forwarding Data Manual.

Third-party Windows binaries that ship with Splunk Enterprise

The following third-party Windows binaries ship with Splunk Enterprise. The Splunk Enterprise product includes these binaries, except where indicated.

The binaries provide functionality to Splunk Enterprise as shown in their individual descriptions. The binaries do not contain file version information or authenticode signatures (certificates that prove the binary file's authenticity). Additionally, Splunk Enterprise does not provide support for debug symbols related to third-party modules.

Binaries, apps, and scripts that do not ship with Splunk Enterprise have not been tested for Certified for Windows Server 2008 R2 (CFW2008R2) Windows Logo compliance.

Archive.dll

Libarchive.dll is a multi-format archive and compression library.

Both Splunk Enterprise and the Splunk universal forwarder include this binary.

Bzip2.exe

Bzip2 is a patent-free, high-quality data compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques (the prediction by partial matching (PPM) family of statistical compressors), while being about twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression.

Jsmin.exe

Jsmin.exe is an executable that removes white space and comments from JavaScript files, reducing their size.

Libexslt.dll

Libexslt.dll is the Extensions to Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (EXSLT) dynamic link C library developed for libxslt (a part of the GNU is Not Unix Network Object Model Environment (GNOME) project).

Both Splunk Enterprise and the Splunk universal forwarder include this binary.

Libxml2.dll

Libxml2.dll is the Extensible Markup Language (XML) C parser and toolkit library. This library was developed for the GNOME project but can be used outside of the GNOME platform.

Both Splunk Enterprise and the Splunk universal forwarder include this binary.

Libxslt.dll

Libxslt.dll is the XML Stylesheet Language for Transformations (XSLT) dynamic link C library developed for the GNOME project. XSLT itself is an XML language to define transformation for XML. Libxslt is based on libxml2, the XML C library developed for the GNOME project. It also implements most of the EXSLT set of processor-portable extensions functions and some of Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions.

Both Splunk Enterprise and the Splunk universal forwarder include this binary.

Minigzip.exe

Minigzip.exe is the minimal implementation of the 'gzip' compression tool.

Openssl.exe

The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and open source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library.

Both Splunk Enterprise and the Splunk universal forwarder include this binary.

Python.exe

Python.exe is the Python programming language binary for Windows.

Pythoncom.dll

Pythoncom.dll is a module that encapsulates the Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) automation API for Python.

Pywintypes27.dll

Pywintypes27.dll is a module that encapsulates Windows types for Python version 2.7.