Packages

List of available packages. This page is mined to populate clib-search(1).

String manipulation

• clibs/buffer - tiny c-string library
• nami-doc/trim.c - trim a string, in place
• nami-doc/strlen.c - get a string's length
• jwerle/strsplit.h - Split a string into a char array by a given delimiter
• jwerle/chfreq.c - Compute character frequency in a string
• hkjels/slug.c - Create slug from a given string.
• stephenmathieson/case.c - string case conversion
• stephenmathieson/occurrences.c - Count occurrences in a string
• stephenmathieson/path-join.c - join a path
• stephenmathieson/path-normalize.c - normalize a path
• jb55/extname.c - get the extension of a file from a path
• stephenmathieson/rot13.c - Simple ROT13
• stephenmathieson/str-ends-with.c - Check if a string ends with another string
• stephenmathieson/str-flatten.c - Flatten a char array
• stephenmathieson/str-replace.c - string replacement
• stephenmathieson/str-starts-with.c - Check if a string starts with another string
• stephenmathieson/substr.c - Get a substring of a string
• stephenmathieson/trim.c - string trim with left and right support
• dhobsd/vstring - A simple string building API for C
• chrisdew/sds - Antirez's Simple Dynamic Strings library
• michaelrhodes/path-basename.c - Find the last portion of a path. Similar to Node’s path.basename method.
• movesmyers/str-truncate.c - Simple string truncation
• clibs/wildcardcmp - Simple wildcard string comparison for C
• Neved4/asprintf - Robust, portable asprintf, vasprintf implementation
• littlstar/asprintf.c - asprintf() implementation
• clibs/strndup - Safe implementation of strndup
• clibs/strdup - Safe implementation of strdup
• mattn/wcwidth - Determine columns needed for a wide character
• TingPing/ustring - Utils for safely handling utf8 strings.
• movesmyers/char-indices.c - Get an array of indices where a character exists in a string
• wooorm/stmr.c - Porter Stemmer algorithm
• gioyik/buffer-libc - Buffer C lib
• littlstar/trim.cc - C++ std::string trim util
• wooorm/levenshtein.c - Levenshtein’s string edit distance algorithm
• lib-x/xstr - A simple public domain string library
• aperezdc/dbuf - Resizable data buffer.
• promsize/abortf - Printing and formatting versions of abort
• promsize/msprintf - Allocating versions of sprintf
• kokke/tiny-regex-c - Small portable regex

Utilities

• clibs/rgba - rgba color string parser
• clibs/unlikely - gcc branch prediction macros
• aperezdc/cflag - Non-allocating command line flag parser
• clibs/commander - expressive argument parser
• clibs/flag - Go style flag parsing
• clibs/ms - millisecond parser / formatter util
• clibs/bytes - byte-length parser / formatter util
• clibs/term - terminal utilities
• clibs/inih - INI parser
• jb55/rotate-bits.h - bitwise rotations
• jwerle/url.h - Parse URLs in C much like Node's url module.
• doches/progressbar - A library for displaying command-line progress bars
• jwerle/progress.h - Progress display lib for c
• jwerle/repl.h - Create a repl with eval/print/error hooks with given stdin, stdout, and stderr streams
• jwerle/getch.c - getch() implementation
• jwerle/usleep.h - usleep implementation using poll() or select()
• jwerle/libbacon - A C implementation of the Baconian Cipher ! BACON
• jwerle/libbeaufort - A C implementation of the Beaufort Cipher
• madmurphy/libconfini - Yet another INI parser
• stephenmathieson/is-email.c - Loosely validate an email address
• thlorenz/gumbo-parser.c - HTML5 parser
• thlorenz/log.h - Minimal yet colorful logging lib
• sciascid/tree - convenient wrapper around BSD sys/tree.h.
• clehner/chains - Markov chains
• Constellation/console-colors.c - Write formatted string to console with colors
• stephenmathieson/expand-braces.c - Simple shell-like brace expansion
• stephenmathieson/wiki-registry.c - Turn a GitHub wiki page into a package registry
• xythobuz/serial - POSIX serial port interface with optional flow control support.
• lukedeo/cmd-parser - A Lightweight, header-only commandline parser
• clibs/mt19937ar - Mersenne Twister random number generator
• willemt/config-re - Data structure allows your program to be configured
• brendanashworth/genpassword.c - Random password generating library
• clibs/dumpasn1 - Displays contents of ASN.1 encoded data
• orangeduck/LuaAutoC - Automagically use C Functions and Structs with the Lua API
• Gioyik/color-sh - Display colors on your terminal
• Gioyik/c_printf - Color C lib for printf
• Gioyik/slim_color - Ultra simple C lib to output color
• nsf/termbox - Powerful but simple library for writing text-based user interfaces
• noporpoise/sort_r - Portable re-entrant qsort (qsort_r / qsort_s)
• kdmurray91/clogged - Configurable and pretty logging library
• Isty001/mem-pool - Dynamic memory pool implementation, for reusable fixed, or variable sized memory blocks, using pthread mutex locks
• alebcay/metric - Macros for converting between metric and customary units
• Isty001/dotenv-c - .env loader for C
• daddinuz/liblogger - DEPRECATED A logging library written in ANSI C
• daddinuz/logger - A logging library written in C99
• ararslan/termcolor-c - Header-only ANSI C library for colored text output
• daddinuz/arena - Region based, expandable, memory allocator
• abranhe/mergesort.c - Merge sort algorithm implementation
• bonedaddy/ulog - Lightweight and threadsafe logger with color coded text and optional file logging
• phoenixpinpoint/ulog - Lightweight and threadsafe logger with color coded text and optional file logging TESTING
• aperezdc/clog - Simple logger which does not allocate memory and can be configured at runtime using environment variables.
• clibs/linenoise - A minimal, zero-config, BSD licensed, readline replacement used in Redis, MongoDB, and Android.
• exbotanical/lib.thread - Bespoke POSIX threads, mutexes, wait queues, thread pools, and semaphores for the C programming language.
• exbotanical/lib.chron - Timers, hierarchical wheels, and event scheduling utilities.
• promsize/memalign - Standard-like functions for pointer alignment
• exbotanical/libutil - JavaScript-inspired utilities for arrays and buffers.
• phoenixpinpoint/Surveyor - A dependency build management tool for clib

Data structure

• jmi2k/disjoint.h - disjoint types (aka sum types)
• yrmt/ArrayList - doubly linked list based on BSD TAILQ
• clibs/hash - hash library built on zhash
• clibs/list - simple doubly linked list
• clibs/red-black-tree - Generic red-black tree library (by Julienne Walker).
• thlorenz/sync-stream.c - synchronous stream implementation
• troydhanson/uthash - C macros for hash tables and more
• willemt/cbuffer - circular buffer
• willemt/bipbuffer - circular buffer alternative
• willemt/heap - heap priority queue
• willemt/pseudolru - pseudo least recently used cache
• willemt/bag - data structure which only has put and randomised take operations
• willemt/bitfield - easily get and set bits in a bitfield
• willemt/array-avl-tree - self balancing tree
• willemt/linked-list-hashmap - hashmap that uses linked lists for managing collisions
• willemt/quadratic-probing-hashmap - hashmap that uses quadratic probing (open addressing) for managing collisions
• DavidLeeds/hashmap - templated and type-safe hashmap using open addressing and linear probing for collision resolution.
• rxi/vec - dynamic array
• jlcordeiro/cmap - map with string keys
• willemt/skiplist - Dictionary implemented through a skiplist
• willemt/linked-list-queue - Queue using a linked list
• willemt/meanqueue - An integer queue that calculates mean in O(1)
• willemt/chunkybar - Data structure that efficiently represents multi-piece progress bars
• willemt/farraylist - An arraylist that doesn't shift items so you can have "holes" between slots
• jonathanmarvens/hopscotch - A generic concurrent skip list library.
• mbucc/cqueue - OpenBSD's queue(3): linked lists and queues.
• clibs/lmdb - Symas Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB)
• willemt/arrayqueue - Queue implemented using an array
• AjayMT/dict.c - Simple dictionary implemented through a linked list
• AjayMT/list.c - Simple linked list
• skeeto/lstack - A lock-free stack using C11's new stdatomic.h features
• clehner/ll.c - Transparent linked lists
• kellydunn/libkld - Personal implementations of common datastructures. (List, Vector, Graph, Matrix, Tree, etc)
• willemt/duraqueue - Queue built to be durable under failure
• Gioyik/mapc - C lib for mapping
• neylsongularte/simple-linked-list-c - Linked list implementation
• htmk/Fat-Array - Dynamic arbitrary typed array using fat pointers and macros.
• laserswald/dlist - Type safe double linked list in the style of BSD's queue.h
• catb0t/sparse - Sparse arrays implemented by run-length-encoding regions of zeroes
• arablocks/flat-tree.c - A series of functions to map a binary tree to a list ported from flat-tree.
• jwerle/libmerkle - A C99 library for generating Merkle trees.
• rikvdh/zabuffer - A Zero-allocation buffer handling library for low-memory applications.
• rikvdh/zringbuf - A Zero-allocation ring-buffer library for low-memory applications.
• robusgauli/cvector - A Generic dynamic vector implementation with Iterator addon.
• robusgauli/cset - Type safe, Generic & Fast as F**K Set Data structure (uses XXHash).
• 4thel00z/env.h - Utilities to nicely interact with the environment variables.
• exbotanical/lib.cartilage - A library of various linked list data structures.
• exbotanical/lib.envoy - Thread-safe notification chains.

Parsing

• clibs/logfmt - fast logfmt parser.
• clibs/jsmn - JSON parser.
• orangeduck/mpc - Parser Combinator Library for C
• willemt/torrent-reader - Read torrent files
• mbucc/js0n - Parse JSON.
• jb55/field-range-parser.c - Parse field ranges (like cut)
• jb55/querystring.c - Querystring parser
• jb55/is_number.c - Test a string to see if it is a number
• brendanashworth/http-parser - http request/response parser for c
• h2non/semver.c - Semver 2.0 parser and render written in ANSI C
• kgabis/parson - Lightweight JSON library written in C.
• tay10r/mini-make - Miniature Makefile parser, written in C.
• septag/sjson - Lightweight single-file JSON library, written in C.
• rikvdh/matching - String-based parser based on matching strings for interpreting and handling string-based interfaces.
• hyperrealm/libconfig - Lightweight fully reentrant configuration parsing library well suited to memory-constrained systems.
• likle/cargs - A lightweight cross-platform getopt alternative that works on Linux, Windows and macOS. Command line argument parser library for C/C++. Can be used to parse argv and argc parameters.
• phoenixpinpoint/md4c-clib - Markdown Parser and HTML Generator for C. Ported from github.com/mity.

Encoding/Decoding

• clibs/rle - Run-length encoding
• clibs/snappy - Snappy codec
• littlstar/uri.c - URI Component encoder/decoder
• mbucc/chtmlescape - HTML escape the characters '<', '>', '&', and '"'
• littlstar/b64.c - Base64 encode/decode
• jwerle/libutf8 - A whatwg compliant UTF8 encoding and decoding library
• willemt/bitstream - Let me write out bits to a stream
• willemt/fe - Flip the endianess of integers
• mikepb/endian.h - Portable endian conversion functions for C
• mattn/locale-string - Convert between locale string and utf-8 string
• georgy7/zlib - A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.
• lemire/simdcomp - A simple C library for compressing lists of integers
• powturbo/TurboPFor - Fastest Integer Compression + Direct Access w/o decompression
• pepaslabs/hexify.c - Convert binary data into a hexidecimal string
• aperezdc/ulid-c - Create and encode ULIDs, Universal Lexicographically-sortable Identifiers.
• jwerle/libsleepfile - A C99 library for interacting with SLEEP file storage.
• sorribas/varint.c - C library to encode/decode protobuf-style varint.

Filesystem

• jwerle/fs.c - File system API much like Node's fs module
• stephenmathieson/mkdirp.c - mkdir -p
• stephenmathieson/rimraf.c - rm -rf
• willemt/file2str - reads a file and returns contents as a string
• willemt/stubfile - for managing the creation of files where the content of the files will be written to randomly
• stephenmathieson/tempdir.c - An implementation of Python's tempfile.tempdir algorithm
• willemt/pidfile - Create a pidfile
• cxong/tinydir - Lightweight, portable and easy to integrate C directory and file reader
• Isty001/copy - Copies files, directories recursively
• clibs/which - Locate executable via $PATH or given string
• likle/cwalk - Path library for C/C++. Cross-Platform for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Supports UNIX and Windows path styles on those platforms.

Hashing

• Cyan4973/xxHash - Extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm
• jwerle/murmurhash.c - MurmurHash3 general hash bashed lookup function implementation
• clibs/sha1 - sha1 hash algorithm
• jb55/sha256.c - sha256 hash algorithm
• aperezdc/hmac-sha256 - hmac-sha256 message authentication algorithm
• pepaslabs/rhash_md5.c - md5 hash algorithm (from RHash)
• zackehh/siphash-c - SipHash hash algorithm
• catb0t/fnv-hash - Fowler/Noll/Vo non-cryptographic hash algorithms
• exbotanical/libhash - A simple open-addressed, double-hashed hash table.

Encryption

• veqtrus/vial_aes - AES block cipher with ECB, CBC, CTR, EAX encryption/ decryption and CMAC authentication

Net

• aisk/libae - Async event loop library extract from from redis
• jb55/anet.c - Basic TCP socket stuff made a bit less boring
• willemt/raft - C implementation of the Raft consensus protocol
• willemt/tracker-client - Connect to a bittorrent tracker
• willemt/pwp - A Bittorrent peer wire protocol implementation
• willemt/yabtorrent - Cross platform Bittorrent library
• clibs/amp - Abstract Message Protocol C implementation
• littlstar/request.cc - libcurl-backed HTTP request library for C++
• daddinuz/http - Http requests made easier
• aperezdc/netdial - Utility library to simplify socket setup code
• clibs/http-get.c - Simple HTTP GET requests backed by libcurl
• 4thel00z/libsniff - Simple library to help you with setting up a raw socket
• phoenixpinpoint/fido - Fido provides JS Fetch API bindings in C for use in WASM. Additionally Fido provides a simple Header, Request and, Response API.

Libraries

• clibs/uv - Cross-platform asychronous I/O
• clibs/leveldb - LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values
• clibs/ck - Concurrency primitives, safe memory reclamation mechanisms and non-blocking data structures designed to aid in the research, design and implementation of high performance concurrent systems.
• beltex/libsmc - Apple System Management Controller (SMC) API
• brendanashworth/r3 - high-performance path dispatching library for the web
• qute/qute - AST generation library
• clibs/sophia - modern embeddable key-value database
• tzador/gl-matrix - Matrix and Vector library for High Performance OpenGL apps
• clibs/stb - stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
• daddinuz/option - Mimic Rust's Option type
• jwerle/libara - a library for constructing random access memory interfaces. Operations are asynchronous and are provided data structures for relaying memory between functions. It is built on top of libuv (libuv >= 1.x.x). It is inspired by Julian Gruber's abstract-random-access.
• septag/sx - Portable base library for C programmers, tailored for system programmers and game developers. Includes containers, hash-table, memory allocators, fibers, threading, random generator, timer, multi-threaded task scheduler, math (linear algebra/vector/matrix/tweening), etc..
• jwerle/libnanoresource - A C99 library for creating tiny async resources.
• jwerle/libram - A C99 library for creating random access memory interfaces.
• jwerle/libras - A C99 library for creating random access storage interfaces.
• jwerle/libalru - libalru is a library for creating really fast numeric based LRU caches that leverage an optimized CRC-16-CCITT ported over from @mafintosh's array-lru.
• andrerenaud/pdfgen - A minimalistic C99 library for creating PDF document.
• Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear - A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library.
• phoenixpinpoint/butterknife - A simple HTML templating system.
• phoenixpinpoint/fracture - Fracture provides a robust set of tools for developing web applications in C. Build to JS or WASM.

Preprocessor macros

• madmurphy/zen.h - C preprocessor utilities

Program flow

• jlcordeiro/threadpool - A simple thread pool implementation (POSIX)
• jwerle/async.h - Asynchronous goodies built on libuv
• stephenmathieson/batch.c - Simple async batch using pthreads
• ScientificC/errno - This repository contains some error handling modules used in the development of the libraries of SciC
• clibs/trigger - Simple event handling library.
• stephenmathieson/emitter.c - Tiny event emitter
• jwerle/throw.h - Create and throw errors easily
• 4thel00z/cry.h - Cry about your program (like throw.h) but with colors
• clibs/coro - Coroutines in C
• tylertreat/chan - Pure C implementation of Go channels
• trws/libdefer - Go-style defer in C
• willemt/uv_multiplex - Let's share one TCP socket across multiple threads
• willemt/bmon - Batch work from multiple threads
• guillermocalvo/exceptions4c - An exception handling framework for C
• Mobiushorizons/closure_module - Standardized callback interface.
• aperezdc/autocleanup - Utility macros for typesafe RAII-style scoped cleanups for variables.

Serialization

• willemt/heapless-bencode - Bencode reader that doesn't use the heap
• willemt/streaming-bencode - Bencode reader that loves working with streams

Testing/Quality Assurance

• orangeduck/ptest - DRY Microtesting for C
• clibs/debug - Conditional debug logging for C
• stephenmathieson/debug.c - Conditional debugging for C (again)
• hij1nx/debug - Conditional debug logging for C++
• stephenmathieson/describe.h - Simple BDD testing utility
• jwerle/libok - Super tiny tap output library
• thlorenz/tap.c - tap test runner
• jlcordeiro/minunit - A minimal, header-only, unit testing framework.
• stephenmathieson/assertion-macros.h - simple assertion macros (assert_equal, assert_str_equal, etc.)
• silentbicycle/greatest - A C unit testing library in 1 file. No dependencies, no dynamic allocation
• willemt/cutest - C unit testing
• jeradesign/MinUnit - JTN002: A minimal unit testing framework for C
• aperezdc/apicheck - Assertion macros for checking function parameters
• daddinuz/traits - An assertions library written in C99
• daddinuz/traits-unit - A unittest framework written in C99

Timing

• clibs/timestamp - millisecond resolution timestamps
• clibs/bench.h - get wall and cpu time for benchmarking
• clibs/timer - timer with microsecond resolution
• willemt/event-timer - A timer that fires events based off time
• brendanashworth/bench - easy to use, beautiful-looking benchmarking library
• opal-instruments/tiny-midi-clock - A small MIDI Beat Clock implementation with millisecond precision.

Executables

• visionmedia/watch - periodically execute commands
• visionmedia/mon - simple process monitoring
• visionmedia/histo - display histograms from static or streaming input
• jb55/extname - get file extensions from arguments
• jb55/samp - Sample input given some probability
• jb55/pidpath - Get the executable path from a pid on OSX
• sphia/sphia - Command line utility for operations on a sophia database
• stephenmathieson/tabs-to-spaces - convert tabs to spaces in files
• stephenmathieson/sophia-repl - REPL for Sophia databases
• hij1nx/ldb - A c++ repl for leveldb
• tomerdmnt/levelfs - leveldb FUSE filesystem
• jonathanmarvens/netmask-tool - Simple netmask utility.
• lavoiesl/osx-cpu-temp - Outputs current CPU temperature in °C for OSX
• clibs/entr - A utility for running arbitrary commands when files change
• stephenmathieson/ghi - less opinionated clib-install for non clib-enabled repos
• jwerle/suri - Set and get application URI schemes for OS X
• wooorm/stmr - Porter Stemmer CLI
• andik/makeheaders - make headers from .c source files
• wooorm/levenshtein - Levenshtein’s string edit distance algorithm CLI
• nilsding/cnsc - C No Scope Commits: Angular commits minus scope and stuff
• glisy/glisy-earth - Glisy example rendering glsl-earth and using glsl-fog for fade in effects.
• glisy/glsl-checker-blur - Glisy example using glsl-hash-blur and glsl-check from stack.gl

OS Specific

• mattn/ansicolor-w32.c - ANSI color support on windows
• onderweg/follow-the-sun - Automatic dark mode in macOS

Plugins

• clibs/clib-uninstall - plugin for uninstalling executables
• clibs/clib-validate - validate a package.json

Math

• ScientificC/cmathl - A pure-C math library with a great variety of mathematical functions. Seeks to be close to C89/C90 compliant for portability.
• jb55/bresenham-line.c - Bresenham's line drawing algorithm
• MauroMombelli/TrigonomeC - Basic implementation of 3d vector and quaternion
• MauroMombelli/FreeDCM - An implementation of Direct Cosine Matrix, a fast orientation algorithm
• willemt/minmax - min and max functions
• glisy/math - Common linear algebra functions for OpenGL
• littlstar/clamp - Macro to clamp a value between two other values
• catb0t/yacbnl - yet another C bignum library for C99
• erstan/ceval - Parse and evaluate math expressions
• tochinet/Posit - Posit arithmetic for embedded systems

AVR

• opal-instruments/max7219-avr - max7219 LED Driver for AVR devices.

OpenGL

• glisy/glisy - Higher level operations for OpenGL
• glisy/glfw-shell - Setup a GLFW context and render loop now
• glisy/ease - Common easing functions
• glisy/math - Common linear algebra functions for OpenGL
• littlstar/sop - Simple OBJ Parser for deriving simplicial complexes and material data from .obj file formats exported from Blender/Max
• littlstar/soil - Simple OpenGL Image Library
• rswinkle/PortableGL - An implementation of OpenGL 3.x-ish in clean C

Profiling

• daddinuz/watchdog - A memory tracer useful to analyze memory usage or detect leaks.