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Contents / Build Systems | |||
aimake | Build tool designed to avoid complex configurations | ||
Autoconf | Extensible package of M4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. Part of the Autotools | ||
Automake | Tool for automatically generating files compliant with the GNU Coding Standards. Requires the use of Autoconf. Part of the Autotools | ||
CMake | Tools for cross-platform building, testing, and packaging | ||
Jam | Build system, designed to be easier than make. Understands C build rules implicitly | ||
Libtool | Generic library support script. Part of the Autotools | ||
Meson | Extremely fast, user-friendly build system. Based on Ninja | ||
Premake | 3,197 | 11 days ago | Build script generator for toolsets like Visual Studio, Xcode, or GNU Make |
SCons | An easier, more reliable and faster way to build software | ||
Ninja | 11,073 | 11 days ago | Small, simple build system with a focus on speed |
Bazel | Build system for various operating systems and targets | ||
Buck | Build system created and used by Facebook | ||
Qbs | Modern build tool for software projects | ||
qmake | Build system included with the Qt Framework | ||
xmake | Cross-platform build utility based on lua | ||
Contents / Compilers | |||
Clang | C compiler for LLVM. Supports C11 | ||
CompCert | Fully-verified C compiler. Supports almost all of C89 | ||
GCC | Provides a C compiler as part of its compiler set. Supports C11 and OpenMP | ||
PCC | Venerable C compiler. Supports C99 | ||
TCC | Tiny C Compiler; a small, fast C compiler. Supports C99 (except complex types) | ||
Intel SPMD | Compiler for a variant of the C language, for single program, multiple data programming | ||
ccache | Compiler cache designed to speedup recompilation | ||
Contents / Compiler libraries | |||
yasm | Yasm Modular Assembler Project | ||
Contents / Compression | |||
libzip | A C library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives | ||
lzo | Very fast data compression library | ||
zlib | Massively-spiffy yet delicately-unobtrusive compression library | ||
bzip2 | Patent free, high quality data compressor | ||
lz4 | Fast Compression algorithm | ||
snappy | 6,110 | about 2 months ago | Fast compression library (implementation in C++, native bindings to C) |
zstd | Fast real-time compression algorithm | ||
brotli | 13,493 | 23 days ago | Generic lossless compression algorithm based on LZ77, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modelling |
quicklz | Fast compression library | ||
pixz | 701 | 3 months ago | Pixz (pronounced pixie) is a parallel, indexing version of |
Contents / Crypto | |||
GnuTLS | Secure communication library, implementing SSL, TLS and DTLS | ||
libgcrypt | General-purpose cryptography library, with a range of available ciphers. and | ||
OpenSSL | Implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols, and also includes a cryptography library | ||
libsodium | Modern and easy-to-use crypto library | ||
libtomcrypt | Fairly comprehensive, modular and portable cryptographic toolkit | ||
mbed TLS | Another crypto implementation for C | ||
libressl | Modernized fork of OpenSSL | ||
Contents / Database | |||
BerkeleyDB | Library for a high-performance embedded database for key-value data | ||
Hiredis | 6,218 | about 2 months ago | Minimalistic client library for Redis |
LMDB | 2,557 | 17 days ago | Ultra-fast, ultra-compact key-value embedded data store |
MariaDB | Robust, scalable and reliable SQL server, designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL | ||
mongo-c-driver | High-performance client library for | ||
PostgreSQL | Powerful object-relational database system | ||
recutils | Set of tools and a C library for accessing human-editable, plaintext database files called recfiles | ||
Redis | Advanced key-value store | ||
sophia | Modern, embeddable key-value database | ||
SQLite | Self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine with a C interface | ||
UnQLite | Self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional NoSQL engine with a C interface | ||
Contents / Deep Learning | |||
Darknet | Open source neural network framework written in C and CUDA. It is fast, easy to install, and supports CPU and GPU computation | ||
Contents / Documentation Generation | |||
Cxref | Generates documentation of C programs in either LaTeX, HTML, RTF or SGML | ||
DocOnce | Modestly-tagged markup language that can be used to generate a range of formats | ||
Doxygen | The de-facto standard tool for generating C documentation from annotated sources. Can generate a large range of formats | ||
GTK-Doc | Tool for generating C documentation from annotated sources. Has support for the Autotools. or | ||
Contents / Editors | |||
Anjuta DevStudio | The GNOME IDE | ||
Atom | Hackable text editor for the 21st century | ||
Code::Blocks | Extensible, configurable IDE supporting C | ||
CodeLite | Cross-platform IDE | ||
Eclipse | IDE written in Java | ||
Geany | Very small and fast IDE | ||
KDevelop | The KDE IDE | ||
Qt Creator | Cross-platform IDE written with C++ and Qt, part of the Qt SDK. Supports Clang Code Model | ||
Visual Studio Code | Code editing, redefined. Visual Studio Code | ||
Contents / Embedded Systems / RTOS | |||
Amazon FreeRTOS | RTOS for microcontrollers that makes small, low-power edge devices easy to program | ||
ChibiOS | RTOS with complete development environment (HAL, drivers, support files, and tools) | ||
Contiki | Connect low-cost, low power microcontrollers to the Internet | ||
Zephyr Project | Scalable real-time RTOS supporting multiple hardware architectures, optimized for resource constrained devices | ||
RIOT OS | Real-time multi-threading operating system that supports a range of devices that are typically found in the Internet of Things | ||
Contents / Environments | |||
Cygwin | Designed to emulate a POSIX-compatible environment extensively under Windows | ||
MinGW-w64 | Minimalist environment for C development on Windows with 64 bit support | ||
Contents / Frameworks | |||
APR | Apache Portable Runtime; another library of cross-platform utility functions | ||
C Algorithms | Collection of common algorithms and data structures for C | ||
C Macro Collections | 527 | 4 months ago | Header only, macro generated, generic and type-safe Collections in C |
CPL | The Common Pipeline Library; a set of libraries designed to be a comprehensive, efficient and robust software toolkit | ||
EFL | Large collection of useful data structures and functions | ||
GLib | Library of utility functions and structures, designed to be portable, efficient and powerful | ||
GIO | Modern and easy-to-use VFS API | ||
GObject | Object-oriented system and object model for C | ||
libnih | 89 | almost 3 years ago | Lightweight library of C functions and structures |
libU | Small library of basic utilities, including memory allocation, string manipulation and logging | ||
PBL | Large library of utilities, featuring data structures, among other things. or | ||
qlibc | Simple and powerful C library, designed as a replacement for GLib while focusing on being small and light. (similar to ) | ||
stb | 26,530 | about 2 months ago | Range of single-file libraries for C |
libsrt | Safe Real-Time library for C | ||
Contents / Game Programming / Engines | |||
Corange | 1,806 | 4 months ago | Game engine in pure C |
Darkplaces | Modified version of the Quake2 engine | ||
ioquake3 | The Quake3 engine, freed at last | ||
Orx | Portable, lightweight, plugin-based, data-driven, 2D-oriented game engine | ||
Quake | 4,821 | 4 months ago | The Quake engine |
Quake2 | 2,797 | 10 months ago | The Quake2 engine |
Spearmint | Engine designed for FPS games | ||
Contents / Game Programming / Resources | |||
Allegro | Cross-platform, video game development and multimedia library | ||
Chipmunk2D | Fast and lightweight 2D game physics library | ||
CSFML | Binding for in C | ||
FreeGLUT | Alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit. Allows the creation and management of windows with OpenGL contexts | ||
GLFW | Multi-platform library for creating windows with OpenGL contexts | ||
libao | Cross-platform audio library with a wide variety of outputs | ||
RetroArch | The reference frontend for | ||
SDL and SDL2 | Cross-platform development library designed to provide low-level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick and graphics hardware via OpenGL. SDL2 is the most current version | ||
raylib | Simple and easy-to-use library to learn videogames programming | ||
Contents / Generic Programming | |||
klib | Small and lightweight implementations of common algorithms and data structures | ||
Contents / Graphics | |||
Cairo | -2D graphics library. or | ||
Cogl | 0 | about 9 years ago | GPU graphics and utilities API |
Clutter | UI library based on OpenGL | ||
giflib | Library for reading and writing gif images | ||
heman | 470 | over 3 years ago | Tiny library of image utilities dealing with height maps, normal maps, distance fields and the like |
libcaca | 527 | 2 months ago | ASCII renderer for terminal-based interfaces |
libimagequant | Small, portable library for high-quality conversion of RGBA images to 8-bit indexed colour images | ||
libjpeg-turbo | Faster library for reading and writing JPEG files | ||
libpng | The official PNG reference library | ||
libxmi | Function library for rasterizing 2D vector graphics | ||
mozjpeg | 5,443 | 2 months ago | Improved JPEG encoder |
Contents / Graphics / Graphic APIs | |||
OpenGL | Industry adopted 2D and 3D graphics API. More resources at | ||
OpenGL ES | Industry adopted 2D and 3D graphics API for mobile and embedded devices | ||
OpenGL SC | Graphic and compute standard for industry requiring system safety certification | ||
Vulkan | Explicit graphic and compute API for modern cross-platform development. More resources at | ||
Contents / Graphical User Interface | |||
GTK+ | Cross-platform widget toolkit | ||
IUP | Another cross-platform widget toolkit | ||
Tk | Basic widget toolkit. Part of Tcl/Tk | ||
XForms Toolkit | Widget toolkit designed for the XWindow system | ||
nuklear | 13,678 | almost 5 years ago | Single-header ANSI C gui library |
libui | 10,718 | 5 months ago | Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library |
LCUI | 4,137 | 13 days ago | Small C library for building user interfaces with C, XML and CSS |
Contents / Hashing | |||
jwHash | 216 | about 4 years ago | Fast hashtable implementation |
xxHash | Extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm | ||
libcrc | 404 | about 2 years ago | Multi platform CRC library |
murmur | 2,487 | 11 days ago | C implementation of MurMur Hashing |
t1ha | 341 | over 2 years ago | Fast Positive Hash library |
Contents / Image Processing | |||
libccv | Modern Computer Vision Library | ||
Contents / JSON | |||
Jansson | C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON | ||
jsmn | Minimalistic JSON parser | ||
json-c | 2,949 | 27 days ago | Library for working with JSON |
parson | 1,340 | 5 months ago | Lightweight JSON library written in C |
WJElement | 108 | 7 months ago | Advanced JSON manipulation library, with support for JSON Schema |
YAJL | Fast C JSON streaming parser library | ||
Contents / Learning, Reference and Tutorials / Online | |||
SEI CERT C Coding Standard | |||
C FAQ - comp.lang.c Frequently Asked Questions | |||
Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for GNU/Linux | |||
GNU C Reference Manual | |||
Robert Pike's notes on programming in C | |||
Draft ANSI C Rationale | |||
Draft C99 Rationale | |||
Draft ANSI C (C89) standard | |||
Draft C99 standard | |||
Draft C11 standard | |||
Tutorial on pointers | |||
Building C Projects | |||
C Programming Wikibook | |||
Introduction to 'fun' C | |||
Learning C with GDB | |||
POSIX Threads Programming tutorial | (a little dated, but most of it is still valid and useful) | ||
The GNU C Programming Tutorial | (online PDF) | ||
Templating in C | |||
8 gdb tricks you should know | |||
10 C99 tricks | |||
Diving into concurrency: trying out mutexes and atomics | |||
Introduction to OpenMP | (video) | ||
OpenMP tutorial | (for the OpenMP3 standard) | ||
memcpy vs memmove | |||
MPI tutorial | |||
Some unknown features or tricks in C language | |||
The lost art of C structure packing | |||
What a C programmer should know about memory | |||
What every C programmer should know about undefined behaviour | |||
Advanced metaprogramming in C | |||
Quick tutorial on implementing and debugging malloc, free, calloc, and realloc | |||
Bit twiddling hacks | |||
I do not know C | |||
Implementing smart pointers for the C programming language | |||
Inline functions in C | |||
Metaprogramming custom control structures in C | |||
Some dark corners of C | |||
Writing efficient C and C code optimization | |||
What every programmer should know about memory | |||
C Programming Language Certified Associate preparation course | |||
Contents / Learning, Reference and Tutorials / Physical | |||
C: A Reference Manual 5E | Full reference book for C99 | ||
C Pocket Reference | Concise reference book for C99 | ||
The C Programming Language 2E | The original book on C, by its creators | ||
C Primer Plus 6E | Complete tutorial on programming in C11 | ||
C Programming: A Modern Approach | Excellent book to learn the basics of C | ||
Head First C | 'Head-first' style book for learning C | ||
21st Century C | Very good programming book on C | ||
Understanding and Using C Pointers | In-depth resource on pointers in C | ||
ZeroMQ | Book for using ZeroMQ with C | ||
Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets | Interesting, in-depth and look at the innards of C | ||
Contents / Macros | |||
P99 | Suite of macros to implement advanced features like default function arguments, scope-bound resources, etc. (Requires C99) | ||
Contents / Memory Allocators | |||
jemalloc | General purpose malloc(3) implementation that emphasizes fragmentation avoidance and scalable concurrency support, commonly used in production systems | ||
dlmalloc | Doug Lea's malloc(3) implementation, useful for academic and research purposes | ||
Hoard | A Fast, Scalable, and Memory-efficient Malloc for Linux, Windows, Mac, and Solaris | ||
nedmalloc | An EXTREMELY FAST portable thread caching malloc(3) implementation written in C | ||
rpmalloc | 2,133 | 4 months ago | Cross platform, lock-free memory allocator |
Contents / Multimedia | |||
FFMPEG | Complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. or | ||
GStreamer | Framework for audio and visual media | ||
lodepng | Simple PNG image decoder and encoder, requiring no other dependencies | ||
libsoup | GNOME HTTP client/server library. Uses GObject | ||
libmpv | Music-playing library. Compile with to not have the music player | ||
libsoundio | Library for cross-platform, real-time audio input and output. Has a range of back-ends | ||
Contents / Networking and Internet | |||
asnlc | Compiler of ASN.1 specifications into C source code | ||
czmq | High-level binding for ZeroMQ | ||
GNU adns | Advanced, easy-to-use, asynch-capable DNS client library and utilities | ||
GNU SASL | Implementation of the Simple Authentication and Security Layer and a few common SASL mechanism | ||
GnuTLS | Secure communication library, implementing SSL, TLS and DTLS | ||
gumbo-parser | 5,161 | over 1 year ago | HTML5 parsing library in C99 |
http-parser | 6,338 | over 2 years ago | HTTP request/response parser |
ldns | Library to simplify DNS programming | ||
libcurl | Client-side URL transfer library, supporting a wide range of formats | ||
LibEtPan | Mail library providing an efficient network for IMAP, SMTP, POP and NNTP | ||
libev | Yet another event loop | ||
libuv | Cross-platform asynchronous I/O | ||
libevent | Event loop replacement for network servers | ||
libgss | Generic Security Service | ||
libhttpd | Library to add basic web server capabilities to an application or embedded device | ||
libidn | Implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA specifications | ||
libmicrohttpd | Small C library that makes it easy to run an HTTP server as part of another application | ||
libsagui | Sagui is a cross-platform C library which helps to develop web servers or frameworks | ||
libvldmail | 52 | 2 months ago | Your friendly e-mail address validation library |
lwan | Experimental, scalable, high-performance HTTP server | ||
mongoose | Embedded web server for C | ||
MQTT-C | 770 | 5 months ago | Portable MQTT C client for embedded systems and PCs alike |
nanomsg | 5,968 | 8 months ago | C-based implementation of ZeroMQ |
OpenSSL | Implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols, and also includes a cryptography library | ||
oSip | SIP implementation in C without additional dependencies | ||
pig | 462 | almost 4 years ago | Linux packet crafting tool |
s2n | 4,516 | 11 days ago | C99 implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols, designed to be simple, fast and with security as a priority |
socket99 | 142 | over 7 years ago | C99 wrapper for the BSD sockets API |
Tox | Communication platform, designed to be a Skype-killer | ||
twitc | 24 | about 4 years ago | Mini C library for interacting with the Twitter OAuth API |
librg | 1,263 | 6 months ago | Library for building simple and elegant cross-platform mmo client-server solutions |
dyad | 1,435 | about 4 years ago | Asynchronous networking library |
h2o | 10,853 | 25 days ago | Optimized HTTP/1, HTTP/2 high performance server/library |
Contents / Networking and Internet / Web Frameworks | |||
balde | Microframework for C based on GLib | ||
onion | C library to create simple HTTP servers and Web Applications | ||
kore | Easy to use, scalable and secure web application framework for writing web APIs in C | ||
klone | KLone is a fully-featured, multiplatform, web application development framework | ||
duda | Duda I/O is an event-driven and high performant web services framework written in C | ||
Contents / Numerical | |||
apophenia | Library for statistical and scientific computing | ||
ATLAS | Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software | ||
BLAS | Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms; a set of routines that provide vector and matrix operations | ||
CDFLIB | Library with routines to evaluate cumulative density functions fo a variety of standard probability distributions. Also can compute one parameter of the CDF given the others. (No license given) | ||
cmathl | Pure-C Math library with a great variety of mathematical functions and CMake build support. Seeks to be close to C89/C90 compliant for portability | ||
Cuba | Library for multidimensional numerical integration | ||
FFTW | The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West; a highly-optimized fast Fourier transform routine | ||
FLINT | Fast Library for Number Theory; a library supporting arithmetic with numbers, polynomials, power series and matrices, among others | ||
GLPK | GNU Linear Programming Kit; a package designed for solving large-scale linear programming, mixed integer programming and other related problems | ||
GMP | GNU Multple Precision Arithmetic Library; a library for arbitrary-precision arithmetic. and | ||
GNU MPC | Library for complex number arithmetic | ||
GNU MPFR | Library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic. or | ||
GNU MPRIA | Portable mathematics library for multi-precision rational interval arithmetic | ||
GSL | The GNU Scientific Library; a sophisticated numerical library | ||
igraph | Library for creating and manipulating large graphs | ||
KISS FFT | Very simple fast Fourier transform library | ||
LAPACKE | C interface to | ||
PARI/GP | Computer algebra system for number theory; includes a compiler to C | ||
PETSc | Suite of data structures and routines for scalable parallel solution of scientific applications modelled by partial differential equations | ||
PROB | Library that handles various discrete and continuous probability density functions | ||
Yeppp! | Very fast, SIMD-optimized mathematical library | ||
Contents / Parallel Programming | |||
cchan | Small library for channel constructs for inter-thread communication | ||
ck | Concurrency primitives, safe memory reclamation mechanisms and non-blocking data structures | ||
mill | Go-style concurrency in C | ||
libdill | Structured concurrency in C | ||
MPICH | Another implementation of MPI | ||
OpenMP | Set of C pragmas designed to allow for easy parallelization of code | ||
OpenMPI | 2,130 | 12 days ago | Message passing interface implementation |
pth | Portable implementation for non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution | ||
pthreads | The POSIX thread library | ||
SLEPc | Software library for the solution of large, sparse eigenvalue problems on parallel computers | ||
TinyCThread | Portable, small implementation of the C11 threads API | ||
Contents / Parsers | |||
hammer | 282 | about 4 years ago | Parser combinators for binary formats |
iniparser | 976 | 3 months ago | Parser for files |
libconfini | 164 | about 2 years ago | Yet another INI parser |
libYAML | YAML 1.1 parser and emitter | ||
mpc | 2,665 | 5 months ago | Parser combinator library |
libucl | 1,616 | 6 months ago | Universal configuration library parser |
Contents / Regex | |||
PCRE | Implementation of regexes identical to that of Perl 5 | ||
regexp4 | 10 | almost 7 years ago | Simple and complete implementation of regular expressions with its own sintax |
SLRE | 527 | almost 4 years ago | Super Light Regular Expression library; a very small implementation of a subset of Perl regex syntax |
sregex | 618 | almost 3 years ago | Non-backtracking NFA/DFA-based Perl-compatible regex engine library |
TRE | 798 | 22 days ago | POSIX-compliant, feature-full regex library |
Contents / Serialization | |||
binn | 450 | 8 months ago | Binary serialization format meant to be compact, fast and easy-to-use |
c-capnproto | 69 | over 1 year ago | Implementation of the Cap'n Proto serialization protocol |
cmp | 337 | 5 months ago | Implementation of the serialization protocol |
libavro | C implementation of the Avro data serialization system | ||
mpack | 533 | over 1 year ago | Another implementation of the serialization protocol |
netstring-c | 7 | about 4 years ago | Netstring encoder and decoder |
protobuf-c | 2,667 | 3 months ago | Implementation of Google Protocol Buffer in C |
xdr | External Data Representation; a standard for data serialization | ||
Contents / Source Code Collections | |||
CCAN | Modelled after Perl's CPAN, this is a big collection of C code that does stuff. The full list is | ||
clib | 4,843 | about 1 month ago | Something of a package manager for C. Comes with a |
gnulib | Collection of common GNU code | ||
libdjb | Collection of libraries doing various things | ||
Contents / Standard Libraries | |||
Bionic | 604 | 11 days ago | Google's C standard library, developed for Android |
dietlibc | C standard library designed for the smallest possible binaries | ||
glibc | The GNU C Library; an implementation of the C standard library | ||
musl | Standard C library, compatible with POSIX 2008 and C11. Designed for static linking | ||
Contents / String Manipulation | |||
bstrlib | The Better String Library. and | ||
ICU | International Components for Unicode; a library for Unicode support | ||
libunistring | Library for manipulating Unicode strings in C | ||
libgiconv | Text conversion library. or | ||
SDS | 4,897 | 5 months ago | Simple Dynamic Strings; a library for handling C strings in a simpler way, but one that is compatible with normal C string functions. Available via |
shoco | Compressor for small text strings | ||
smaz | 1,166 | almost 5 years ago | Efficient string compression library |
utf8.h | 1,723 | 3 months ago | Single header utf8 string functions |
utf8proc | 1,039 | about 1 month ago | Small, clean library for processing UTF-8 Unicode data |
Contents / Testing | |||
CHEAT | Very simple unit testing framework | ||
Check | Unit testing framework for C | ||
CMock | Mock/stub generator for C | ||
cmocka | Unit testing framework with support for mock objects | ||
Criterion | KISS, non-intrusive C test framework | ||
CUnit | Another unit testing framework for C | ||
Cutest | 18 | about 3 years ago | Library for unit testing with memory leak detection (Linux, freeBSD and Windows) |
minunit | 569 | 12 months ago | Minimal unit testing framework for C |
munit | Small but full-featured unit testing framework for C with no dependencies | ||
Unity | Simple unit testing framework for C | ||
Contents / Text Editor Extensions / Atom | |||
linter-clang | 55 | about 1 year ago | Lint C code in Atom, using Clang |
linter-gcc | 71 | over 2 years ago | Lint C code in Atom, using GCC |
Contents / Text Editor Extensions / Emacs | |||
CEDET | Collection of Emacs Development Environment Tools; designed to provide IDE-like features to Emacs. Built-in | ||
Flycheck | 2,408 | 3 months ago | Modern syntax checking. For C, it can use either GCC or Clang as a back-end |
Yasnippet | 2,790 | 6 months ago | Template system, with C templates for common code snippets |
Contents / Text Editor Extensions / Vim | |||
Syntastic | 11,304 | over 2 years ago | Syntax checking and linting |
YouCompleteMe | Code completion engine for Vim | ||
Contents / Tools | |||
Artistic Style | Fast and small automatic source code formatter that supports C | ||
address-sanitizer | 11,405 | about 2 months ago | Fast memory error detector |
biicode | Modern dependency manager for C | ||
c | 2,090 | 11 months ago | Compile and execute C "scripts" in one go on the command line. Also has shebang support |
c99sh | 107 | 13 days ago | Run C files using hash-bang |
CBMC | C Bounded Model Checker; a tool for verification of array bounds, pointer safety and user-specified assertions | ||
cdecl | Online service to translate C declarations into English and vice versa | ||
cinclude2dot | Graphs include dependencies in a C project using Graphviz | ||
Complexity | Tool for measuring the complexity of C source code | ||
CScout | Source code analyzer and refactoring browser for collections of C programs | ||
DDD | Graphical front-end for a range of command-line debuggers | ||
GDB | The GNU Project debugger; a debugger for C | ||
Glade | RAD tool to enable quick development of GTK+ GUIs | ||
GMSL | GNU Make Standard Library; a collection of additional functionality for GNU Make | ||
GNU Global | Source code tagging tool which works with C | ||
gprof | Performance analysis tool. Part of GNU binutils | ||
Highlight | Converts source code to formatted text with nice highlighting | ||
include-what-you-use | 4,076 | 13 days ago | Helps find unecessary inclusions and make suggestions for fixing them. Based on LLVM/Clang (and only works with it) |
indent | Formats C source code automatically to make it easier to read. Also converts from one style of source to another | ||
rr | Debugger that records non-deterministic executions to allow for deterministic debugging | ||
tup | Very fast, file-based, cross-platform build system | ||
unifdef | Removes #ifdef and #if directives with their delimited text without touching any other part of the file. and | ||
Valgrind | Range of dynamic analysis tools, including a leak checker | ||
Contents / Utilities | |||
ApeTagLibs | 12 | 5 months ago | C library for working with APEv2 tags |
bfd | Library for manipulating binary object files. Part of GNU binutils | ||
cf4ocl | The C Framework for OpenCL; a cross-platform object-oriented framework for developing and benchmarking projects. or | ||
CommonMark | 4,876 | 29 days ago | C implementation of the CommonMark spec |
CException | 323 | 2 months ago | C implementation of exceptions |
docopt.c | 320 | 5 months ago | C implementation of a command-line option parser |
dyncall | Another foreign function interface library | ||
FANN | Fast Artifical Neural Network library; an implementation of neural networks | ||
Firm | C library that provides a graph-based intermediate representation, optimizations and assembly code generation suitable for use in compilers. Comes with an example C front-end under the same license | ||
Genann | 1,994 | 4 months ago | Simple neural network library in C |
gjrand | Library of random-number generation routines. or | ||
GNU FreeIPMI | In-band and out-of-band IPMI implementation | ||
GNU gperf | Perfect hash function generator, given a list of strings. Outputs C code | ||
GNU Libffcall | Collection of libraries for building foreign function interfaces | ||
gperftools | 8,397 | 15 days ago | Collection of utilities for measuring and improving performance |
huffandpuff | 96 | over 11 years ago | Minimal Huffman encoder and decoder |
kdtree | 391 | about 3 years ago | Simple library for working with KD-trees |
Kitsune | Efficient, general-purpose framework for dynamic software updating | ||
libavl | Library containing a range of self-balancing binary trees | ||
libbson | 345 | about 4 years ago | BSON utility library |
libCello | Library introducing higher-level programming to C | ||
libffi | 3,180 | 22 days ago | Portable foreign-function interface library |
libgit2 | Pure C implementation of Git | ||
libimobiledevice | 6,596 | 26 days ago | Cross-platform protocol library to communicate with iThings. or |
libnfc | 1,686 | 2 months ago | Platform-independent Near-Field Communication library |
libPhenom | 1,661 | over 5 years ago | Deprecated, here for archival purposes. Eventing framework for building high-scalability and high-performance systems |
ncurses | Coloured terminal UI library | ||
nope.c | 693 | almost 7 years ago | C-language-based, ultra-light software platform for scalable server-side and networking applications (think node.js for C programmers) |
pbc | 1,619 | almost 2 years ago | Protocol buffers library |
rabbitmq-c | 1,760 | 2 months ago | Client library for |
Ragel | DSL for state machines that compiles to C | ||
Tinyexpr | 1,582 | about 2 months ago | Tiny recursive-descent parser, compiler and evaluation engine for simple mathematical expressions |
uthash | Hash table implementation, allowing existing structures to be stored in a hash table easily | ||
cpu_features | 2,434 | 29 days ago | A cross platform C99 library to get cpu features at runtime |
pblog | 29 | almost 7 years ago | Small, low overhead, structured logging library intended for logging formware events |
libelf | 54 | over 7 years ago | ELF object file access library in C |
mcpp | Portable C preprocessor | ||
libusb | Generic access to USB devices | ||
alsa-lib | Userspace library to interact with ALSA | ||
Capstone | 7,509 | 12 days ago | Dissasembly/disassembler framework |
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