clib(1)

Package manager for the C programming language.

install libcurl

$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev -qq

clone

$ git clone https://github.com/clibs/clib.git /tmp/clib && cd /tmp/clib

build

$ make

put on path

$ sudo make install

  Fedora:

```sh
# install libcurl
$ sudo dnf install libcurl-devel
# clone
$ git clone https://github.com/clibs/clib.git /tmp/clib && cd /tmp/clib
# build
$ make
# put on path
$ sudo make install

About

Basically the lazy-man’s copy/paste promoting smaller C utilities, also serving as a nice way to discover these sort of libraries. From my experience C libraries are scattered all over the web and discovery is relatively poor. The footprint of these libraries is usually quite large and unfocused. The goal of clibs is to provide stand-alone “micro” C libraries for developers to quickly install without coupling to large frameworks.

You should use clib(1) to fetch these files for you and check them into your repository, the end-user and contributors should not require having clib(1) installed. This allows clib(1) to fit into any new or existing C workflow without friction.

The wiki listing of packages acts as the “registry” and populates the clib-search(1) results.

Examples

More examples and best practices at BEST_PRACTICE.md.

Install a few dependencies to ./deps:

$ clib install clibs/ms clibs/commander

Install them to ./src instead:

$ clib install clibs/ms clibs/commander -o src

When installing libraries from the clibs org you can omit the name:

$ clib install ms file hash

Install some executables:

$ clib install visionmedia/mon visionmedia/every visionmedia/watch

Articles

• Introducing Clib - introduction to clib
• The Advent of Clib: the C Package Manager - overview article about clib