Vita

A simple and intuitive standard library for your modern C project! Lightweight and no dependencies.

Vita strives to provide all common functionality other modern libraries support to ease prototyping with C and simplify the development process.

Features

• Written in C11
• Containers
• String manipulation
• Path and file handling
• Logging facility
• Command line arguments parser
• Facilities to work with paths and directories
• Datetime utility
• Simple sockets wrapper

Arguments parser showcase

// argopt_showcase.c
#include "vita/vita.h"

int main(const int argc, const char *argv[]) {
    char   *opt_link = NULL;
    char   *opt_save = strdup("~/Desktop");
    bool    opt_verbose = false;
    int32_t opt_quality = 720;

    // create options to parse
    vt_argopt_t optv[] = {
        //  long        short     description          argument              type
        { "--link",     "-l",   "url link",       VT_ARGOPT(opt_link),    VT_TYPE_CSTR },
        { "--save",     "-s",   "save directory", VT_ARGOPT(opt_save),    VT_TYPE_CSTR },
        { "--verbose",  "-v",   "verbose output", VT_ARGOPT(opt_verbose), VT_TYPE_BOOL },
        { "--quality",  "-q",   "video quality",  VT_ARGOPT(opt_quality), VT_TYPE_INT32 },
    };
    const size_t optc = sizeof(optv)/sizeof(vt_argopt_t);

    // parse args and opts
    const int8_t parse_status = vt_argopt_parse(argc, argv, optc, optv, NULL);
    if (parse_status < 0) {
        printf("See 'argopt -h' for more info!\n");
        goto cleanup;
    }

    // display help manual
    if (parse_status == VT_ARGOPT_PARSE_HELP_WANTED) {
        vt_argopt_print_help(
            "downloader v0.3.0 -- easy video downloader",                    // header
            "Example: downloader --link your_url --save save/dir --verbose", // footer
            optc, optv
        );
        return 0;
    }

    // now do your thing
    download(opt_link, opt_save, opt_verbose, opt_quality);

cleanup:
    free(opt_link);
    free(opt_save);

    return 0;
}

Folder structure:

📁 project  
├── 📁 vita         // vita includes
├── 📄 main.c       // our program
└── 📄 libvita.a    // pre-built static library

Building and running:

$ gcc main.c -o downloader -lvita -L.
$ ./downloader --link "www.abs.com/video" -s ~/Desktop/media --verbose
==============================================
Downloading video with the following options:
        url: www.abs.com/video
       save: ~/Desktop/media
    verbose: true
    quality: 720
==============================================

$ ./downloader -h
downloader v0.3.0 -- easy video downloader
-l    --link url link
-s    --save save directory
-v --verbose verbose output
-q --quality video quality
-h    --help This help information.
Example: downloader --link your_url --save save/dir --verbose

More examples

Check out the Vita Wiki or take a look at tests/src for more examples.

Development process

You can also closely follow the development process in Trello board. If you face any errors, please report by PR or create an issue.

LICENSE

All code is licensed under the BSL license.